Education

One of the core services offered by the Irish Ancestry Research Centre (IARC) is education, research skills and training in genealogy, genealogy research and history of the family. Our team of highly qualified experts and lecturers provide a number of workshops during the year, and also a range of certificate, Masters and PhD qualifications in this area. A number of these courses are available through distance learning online.

Our lecturers are Dr David Butler (Academic Director, IARC), and Lorna Moloney, Educational Project Manager & Visiting Lecturer (NUIG). At IARC, we pride ourselves on our strong links to National Repositories, and to Industry.

As a visitor to IARC, we invite you to participate in our workshops and enrol on our Certificate. The schedule of workshops will be posted here regularly, or to subscribe to our ezine updates, please email info@irisharc.org with Workshops in the subject field.

Certificate Courses

The certificate in History of Family & Genealogical Methods commenced in September 2011.  This offers options of progression to MA History of Family or a Diploma option in History of Family & Genealogical Methods. For more details for the certificate and an application form please follow the links below. Completed application forms may be returned to Fiona Roberts, Lifelong Learning, University of Limerick and further information can be requested from Deborah.Clifford@irisharc.org. Full details of  Certificate in History of Family & Genealogical Methods

The Department of History offers the following postgraduate course in the History of the Family:

For information on any of these courses, please email info@irisharc.org.