Watching (recorded) “Inside the Factory” looking at Guinness in Dublin. And I just uttered immortal words “My ancestors were frequently drunk and disorderly in Victorian Dublin”. Which I know thanks to Irish prison registers, which also tell me what my ancestors looked like. Even if there remains uncertainty over which eye my gg-granddad was missing! #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Ireland #Dublin #Prisons #Crime #NineteenthCentuty #VictorianHistory #Guinness #Drink #Alcohol #TV #BritishTV #Prisoners

CFP Society for the Study of 19th Century Ireland - Our 2023 Annual Conference 'Colonising and Decolonising the Irish Nineteenth Century' will be at the Research Institute for Historical and Cultural Studies @Radboud_Uni Nijmegen 22-23 June 2023. Deadline for abstracts 1 Feb 2023 for more details see http://ssnci.org/annual-conference-2023/ #IrishStudies #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #NineteenthCentuty