The Society Projects

The society and its members will undertake research of a historical or genealogical nature, where an extended period of time and effort is required to achieve a result. Such work would not include routine day to day research specific to just one family. Each project will be led by a member to agreed terms of reference. Others are encouraged to provide support.

The images on this page are

  1. General Irish landscape
  2. The Middle Lake, Killarney
  3. Dingle, Co.Kerry
  4. Kilmacduagh, Galway (had O’Donoghue clerics)
Current projects are:
1690 and 1691 in Ireland - the Boyne and Limerick
(Proposed)
1880s worldwide census data base
(Proposed)
1916 - Battle of Somme and Easter Rising
(Active)
American British conflict of 1812-15
(Proposed)
American Civil War 1861-5
(Active)
American Revolutionary War 1775-83
(Active)
Aran Isles
(Active)
Ballydonoghues
(Active)
Biographies
(Active)
Birth of San Francisco
(Active)
Boston Irish
(Active)
Donahoe Nexus
(Active)
Dunphys of Canada
(Proposed)
Famous Irish regiments in foreign armies
(Active)
Fenians and the movements that followed
(Active)
Freemasonry
(Proposed)
Gold Rush in Australia
(Active)
Gold Rush of American West
(Active)
Historic Irish regiments disbanded in 1922
(Proposed)
History of the Irish in Scotland
(Proposed)
Irish Civil War
(Active)
Irish clerics in the European colleges of the 17th and 18th centuries
(Active)
Irish education over the centuries (incl. hedge schools)
(Proposed)
Irish naming practices
(Active)
Irish of the Caribbean
(Active)
Irish pioneers and settlement in South Africa
(Active)
Irish pioneers and the settlement of Australia
(Active)
Irish pioneers and the settlement of Canada
(Active)
Irish pioneers and the settlement of New Zealand
(Active)
Irish pioneers and the settlement of USA
(Active)
Ó Donnchadha tribal history
(Active)
O'Donoghue folklore
(Active)
O'Donoghue Halls of Fame
(Active)
Plantations of Ireland
(Proposed)
Roll of honour
(Proposed)
Settling the American West - 1820-1920
(Active)
Sixteenth century in Ireland through to the battle of Kinsale
(Proposed)
Surname distribution analysis
(Active)
Texas Revolution 1835-6
(Proposed)
The 1845-52 famine in Kerry
(Active)
The Battle of Clontarf 1014
(Active)
The Boer Wars (1880-1 and 1899-1902)
(Active)
The Irish in Victorian London (or any other major British city)
(Active)
The Irish Navvy in Great Britain
(Proposed)
The Irish of (individual American states)
(Active)
The Irish of Latin America
(Active)
The major Irish families in Continental Europe after Kinsale, the Boyne and Limerick
(Active)
The monasteries and Church in Medieval Ireland
(Active)
The Ó Donojús of Spain
(Active)
The O'Donoghue Arms
(Active)
The O'Donoghue County Clusters Project
(Active)
The old Gaelic order in Ireland
(Active)
The rapparee
(Active)
To Hell or Connaught
(Proposed)
US - Mexican War 1846-8
(Proposed)
Viking period in Ireland
(Proposed)
Wild Geese
(Active)
World War One and the Irish
(Active)
World War Two and the Irish
(Active)

All researchers are encouraged to suggest potential projects which will advance our combined state of knowledge.

Specific research interests