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Francis Beaufort was descended from French Protestant Huguenots, who fled the French Wars of Religion in the sixteenth century. His parents moved to Ireland from London.His father, Daniel Augustus Beaufort, was a Protestant clergyman from Navan, County Meath, Ireland, and a member of the learned Royal Irish Academy.
Geograph Britain and Ireland is a web-based project, begun in March 2005, to create a freely accessible archive of geographically located photographs of Great Britain and Ireland. [1] Photographs in the Geograph collection are chosen to illustrate significant or typical features of each 1 km × 1 km (100 ha ) grid square in the Ordnance Survey ...
The National Photographic Archive (Irish: Cartlann Grianghrafadóireachta Náisiúnta) [1] is located in Temple Bar in Dublin, Ireland, and holds the photographic collections of the National Library of Ireland (NLI). The archive was opened in 1998, and has a reading room and exhibition gallery.
The Geographical Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). It publishes papers covering research on all aspects of geography. It also publishes shorter Commentary papers and Review Essays. [1]
Cillín Phádraig at Maumeen near Maam Cross. A cillín (plural cillíní) is a historic burial site in Ireland, primarily used for stillborn and unbaptized infants. These burial areas were also used for the recently deceased who were not allowed in consecrated churchyards, including the mentally disabled, suicides, beggars, executed criminals, and shipwreck victims.
The Irish Newspaper Archives is a commercial online database of digitised Irish newspapers, and claims to be the world's oldest and largest archive of Irish newspapers. [1] [2] Subscription-free access to the archive is available to users in Irish public libraries and schools. [3] [4]
Members of the committee are based in most of the geography departments of Irish universities. A majority of geography academics across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland are members of the GSI, and many contribute continually to the internationally renowned peer-reviewed journal Irish Geography.
Ogilvie was born in Monymusk, Aberdeenshire in April 1864, the eldest daughter of eight children (five brothers and two sisters, one of whom passed away in infanthood). [3] [4] With her parents being Maria Matilda Nichol and the Reverend Alexander Ogilvie LL.D., [3] her family was very well educated.