Volume 25 2009 €10.00
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A look back over the years by Richard Flatman 5
Tour of WW1 Battlefields Ypres and The Somme by Patricia Moorhead 10
William Sprott (1840-1918) Linen Manufacturer of Dromore and Belfast Ancestors, Business Activities, Family Life and Descendants by G. Rex Meyer 30
C.S.M. Joseph Aloysius Phillips 1881-1918 by Ivor J. Faulkner 50
The Story of the Delaney family of Killucan County Westmeath by Robert Delaney 54
In search of Thomas Smyth, Mayor of Limerick by Jonathan C. Spurrell 62
DNA & Family History by Peter R.B. Davies 69
Field, House and Tenure Books Helped Broaden my Ancestral Research by Mary Russell 72
Death and Justice at Grangemellon, Athy, County Kildare, 1623 by James Robinson 75
My Grandmother – Lucy Mary (nee Dunlap) Doran by Maureen Hambrook 82
The Will of Patrick Hughes – a typical will of the 1890s? by Rosaleen Underwood 84
The Dowlings or Doolans of Carricknaughton, Athlone by Eamonn Dowling 93
Extracts from Roman Catholic Clergy lists 1704 to 1800 by Richard Flatman 98
Do you recognise any of these? Victorian Prisoners Photograph Albums at TNA by Mary Beglan 114
Tombstone Inscriptions of the Carmelite Abbey, Loughrea, County Galway by Adrian James Martyn 120
Book Reviews 125