National Heritage Week 2026 at Cork City and County Archives Service
Genealogy and Archives Day
Location: Cork City and County Archives Service, Seamus Murphy Building, 32 Great William O'Brien Street, Blackpool, Cork T23 WP82
Date: Weds. 19th August 2026, 10.30am to 4.00pm
No charge. Places limited, booking essential (full day only). Book by email archivist@corkcity.ie
Light Lunch Provided.
Speakers:
Hannah Lynch, Assistant Archivist: “A City Evolving: Cork Wide Streets Commissioners 1820s-1852” ;
Dr. Mervyn O'Driscoll, Historian, UCC: “Cork-German Connections 1939-1973”;
Brian McGee, Senior Archivist: “Workhouse Records, School Records, and other Genealogical Sources in the Cork City and County Archives” ;
Michelle O'Mahony, Historian, OM Consulting, "If the Walls Could Talk- Life in Cork Union Workhouse" and 'The Moylan Family of Cork and their contribution to Cork and the USA”