RESEARCHING IRELAND -5 OBTAINING IRISH CERTIFICATES The general public has a right of access to the various Irish national indexes, but NO right to see the Irish registers, at both Dublin and Belfast. To discover details of an entry in the registers copy certificates must be bought. From Dublin The General Register Office at Joyce House in Dublin is open to the public on normal weekdays Monday to Friday 9.30 am to 12.30 pm and 2.15 pm to 4.30 pm, but closed at weekends and on public holidays. Appointments are not really necessary and casual visitors can usually be accommodated. There are two daily fee-paying searches available to visitors that must be prepaid. A relatively inexpensive 'Particular Search' allows access to any five years of the indexes for one particular event only. Thus researchers looking for two separate events like a marriage followed by a birth, would be required to make two separate searches and pay two 'Particular Search' fees. The more expensive 'General Search' allows unlimited access to the birth and death indexes during a period not exceeding six hours, or unlimited access to the marriage indexes on any number of successive days not exceeding six. The cost of copy certificates when an event is found, whether the less expensive uncertified ! printouts or the more costly certified copies (if authentification of a register entry is required), is additional in both forms of search. This service is only available to visitors to Joyce House. ============================================================== ©Cara_Links Researching Co.Wicklow,Wexford. A friend is one who accepts your past, loves you as you are, and believes in your tomorrows