Anybody who wants to find out about a relative’s time in the RIC needs to start with their service record and find the service number, according to Michael Guilfoyle.

British army records relating to the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence have been opened to the world in one of the most ambitious online projects for family researchers and historians.

The victims of the Great Famine were not just the poor, as new research shows that many middle-class people, including lawyers and doctors, ended up in the workhouse.

Celebrities from Graham Norton to Jeremy Irons uncovered their family trees in the hit TV series Who Do You Think You Are? As the live show opens in London, Bill Linnane delves into his own genealogical past.

Mrs Brown of the comedy TV series could have a basis in reality — as it turns out that creator Brendan O’Carroll’s grandfather lived next door to a woman of the same name a century ago.