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[Spider Jerusalem]

4. I think you'll find some considerable difficulty in researching Ireland.

The Irish Public Records Office in Dublin burned in 1922 during the Irish Civil War and most of the records were destroyed. There may be extant parish records of births and christenings and marriages, but they are mostly for the Church of Ireland (the established Anglican church when Ireland was part of the United Kingdom); Catholic births, marriages, deaths and christenings are much harder to find extant records for. My great-great-grandfather left Ireland at the age of four or so during the Famine and came to America with his family; I haven't been able to find anything at all about them in Irish records, or for that matter in immigration records, so I don't even know what port they'd have arrived at (or even if it was in Canada and not the US; they ended up in Louisville, Kentucky). This is despite years of searching off and on and having a general idea of what part of Ireland they came from; I'm afraid that your Irish ancestry is probably going to be a dead end in terms of finding anything.