Full list of the Irish family history records

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Newspapers, Directories & Social History

Alumni Dublinenses 1924
Ashe's Limerick and Clare Directory 1891-92
Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ireland, 1899
Byrne's Irish Times Abstracts 1859-1901
Deserted Children, Dublin
George Bassett, County Down Guide and Directory (1886)
George Bassett, Kilkenny City and County Guide and Directory (1884)
George Bassett, Limerick City and County and Principal Towns in the Counties of Clare, Tipperary, and Kerry (1881)
George Bassett, Louth County Guide and Directory (1886)
George Bassett, The Book of Antrim (1888)
George Bassett, The Book of County Armagh (1888)
George Bassett, Wexford County Guide and Directory (1885)
Guy's Directory of Munster 1893
Guy's Limerick Directory, 1912
Harvey's Waterford Almanac and Directory for 1866
Henderson's Belfast Directory 1850
Henry & Coughlan's General Directory of Cork and Munster for 1867
Ireland Medical Directory 1852
James Alexander Henderson, The Belfast and Province of Ulster Directory for 1856
John Watson Stewart, The Gentleman's and Citizen's Almamack for the Year 1814
Leet's Directory (2nd ed., 1814)
Macloskie Directory of Fermanagh 1848
Matier's Belfast Directory for 1835-6
Pettigrew & Oulton, Dublin Almanac & General Register of Ireland (1845)
Pettigrew and Oulton, The Dublin Almanac and General Register of Ireland, 1835
Pigot & Co., City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial Directory (1824)
Registers of Queen's Colleges Ireland 1849-1858
Shearman's Directory of Waterford, Kilkenny & the southeast 1839
Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland (1846)
Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Ireland (1870)
Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Ireland 1881
Slater's Royal National Directory of Ireland (1894)
Sligo Independent Newspaper Almanac Guide, 1889
Tempest's Jubilee Annual 1909
The King's County Directory, 1890
The Post Office Annual Directory and Calendar, 1843
The Post Office Dublin Directory and Calendar, 1858
The Sligo Chronicle Almanac and Directory for 1878
Thom’s Irish Almanac 1880
Thom's Directories
Thom's Irish Who's Who 1923
Treble Almanacs (1783,1812,1818,1824)