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civic · Wednesday 16 September 2026 · 7:00pm 
Portlaoise Library Genealogy Club
At Portlaoise Library · Portlaoise, Co. Laois
At Portlaoise Library · Portlaoise, Co. Laois
The Genealogy Club at Portlaoise Library takes a break over the summer and resumes in September 2026, with the club’s regular pattern pointing to Wednesday, 16 September as the likely next meeting. The free monthly group is open to beginners as well as experienced family history researchers, and meets in the evening at the library. It is one of several long-running adult interest groups the library hosts, alongside its book clubs and word-game clubs, that give people a reason to come back to the same room on a regular basis rather than just to borrow and return books.
An informal monthly gathering where members swap progress on their own family trees, talk through research methods and help each other work through brick walls in their research, from tracking down baptismal records to making sense of old land valuation records. Beginners with no research experience are welcome, and regulars are generally happy to point newcomers toward the right online archives and local sources to start with. Before its summer break, the club had been meeting on the third Wednesday of the month at 7pm, which is the pattern used here, though anyone planning to attend the September meeting should confirm the exact date with the library beforehand, as term-time scheduling can shift by a week either way.
Portlaoise Library is in the centre of Portlaoise, a short walk from the train station on the Dublin to Cork and Dublin to Limerick lines. Public parking is available in the town centre, making it an easy evening trip for anyone coming in from elsewhere in the county.
Portlaoise is the county town of Co. Laois, with the library a short walk from the main streets.
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