An Introduction to Sources for Local History Research

Presentation: An introduction to sources for local history research. This online presentation will focus on using primary sources, and on utilising databases and repositories. This is also the final year of our charity booklets for Heritage Week (with 100 produced over the past decade). For 2026, the booklets are:
- Reports on the Night of the Big Wind in Galway
- The Ballinasloe Invincibles: The seven-in-a-row county winning sides
- Castlegar 1957: The great county hurling champions
- Every Cause But Their Own: Galway soldiers in battles across the globe
- Galway 1939/40: Galway’s first national football league crown
- Galway United 1991: Celebrating the winning sides of 1986 and 1991
- Loughrea 1926: The town of Loughrea in the 1926 census
- Taylor and Skinner’s Galway, 1777: The road maps of 250 years ago
- Timothy Dolan: An unsung heroes of the Land League movement
- Tynagh 1928: The end of an era in County Galway GAA