The Ballycastle Blog: Irish Genealogy and More

Gail, The Irish government's Irish citizenship application requirements are defined on the Department of Foreign Affairs website. Click the Foreign Affairs link on my Ballycastle Irish Citizenship page http://www.goballycastle.com/irishcitizenship to see Irish citizenship application requirements details. Please contact me mike@GoBallycastle.com if you would like me to help you find your Irish ancestors' baptism and birth certs in Ireland. I look forward to hearing from you.

All 4 of my grandparents were born in Ireland. My maternal grandparents were married in England and I haven't been able to get marriage certificates. My paternal grandparents were married in US but I'm not sure where and can't frind those records either, can I still get Irish citizenship?

Catherine Feeley, Catherine Ferry,
James Gallagher, Boyle,
County Lietriem...all 4 grandparents
were born there.

hi maureen, you are an Irish citizen through your father born in Ireland. do you need any help locating his official Irish birth certificate? If so, perhaps I can help you. Send a message to mike@goballycastle.com. Keep in touch.

dad was born in cappamore conty limerick

I have just found your blog. I am from the Pittsburgh PA region and there are a lot of people of Irish descent living here. I am surely going to read all your information and I am anxious to start reading. I thought I had my Great Grandparents figured out from the information on their marriage application. Then upon requesting their death certificates the dates and information was all different. Back to the research for me....

Mike, my family came to Carbondale, PA abt 1834-36.Name was changed to McDonald. Family left behind was Ann Nolan McDonnell and her young son Alex. Her husband Patrick and another son Francis died before her children (Patrick, Peter and Ellen) left Ireland. They must have lived near the Ocean because my Great Great Grandmother (Ellen McDonnell Quinn) told my great grandmother that she missed the sounds of the Ocean>

Carol, We have common Irish county origins. My Irish ancestors started in Sligo and moved to Glencalry, very near to Ballycastle, Mayo, around 1850, one of them, my grandfather, Martin, came to America in 1892, returned to Ireland and married a Mayo woman in 1911, and both came to Baltimore, Maryland in 1912 and stayed. I am particularly interested in your Ballycastle side, as a number of my Irish relatives and friends live there today. When did your Irish ancestors travel to America?

My Irish ancestors (McDonnell/McDonald) came to Carbondale, PA USA from Ballycastle, Mayo County and (Quinn) came from Sligo. I believe they sailed from Killala Bay

Great post. It must be amazing to have so many family members in the one place for a weekend.

Congratulations!

Ralph

People do not even look at the genealogy to determine why they are the way they are! Thanks for the blog! great information

Thank you for your great article.

Do an internet search on Diarmuid Gavin and his TV documentary series, Blood of The Irish and you should find some additional information on the documentary.

This is interesting, especially considering that the local Church of Ireland was contacted by Salt Lake City, (basically the capital of the Mormon church), and that the Mormon leaders later presented the president with his own copy of his family's geneaology. So the president probably knows he has Irish roots.

This blog post was interesting to read, but I'm not sure how I feel about the implications about the Irish heritage... Is there a link to the docutmentary you mentioned?

Litteral translations often lose their meanings, particularly in things like this and it is a true art to get it right!

Everyone knows the phrase "Yes ,we can"

Nice post. Its quite learning.

Cool I like all the candle lighting

to bad about the no whiskey, but an enjoyable Christmas. Some traditions i see we Americans have modified but all in all a good time

I have never encountered such situations, but it seems to me that these people have very hard life.