Discover your ancestor's university days with our latest releases

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By Niall Cullen | March 20, 2026

This week, we're bringing you scholarly records and Irish newspapers for St Patrick's Day.

Find ancestors who attended University College London in our latest record releases, and delve deeper into their higher education. Search student registers, diploma examinations, and more, alongside more brand new newspaper pages from across Ireland to mark St Patrick's Day.

College of Preceptors, Student Registers and Diploma Examinations, 1881-1931

If your ancestor trained as a teacher during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, you may find them listed in this unique collection of student registers and diploma examination records. Spanning 1881-1931, these detailed records can help you find out more about teacher training, including examination dates and results, schools attended, and the dates diplomas were awarded.

University of London School Register 1831-1890

Delve into this unique collection of 19th-century school registers for the University of London (later University College London) to learn more about your ancestors who attended school at this pioneering academic institution. School registers can help you to uncover new details about your scholarly ancestors, such as their age, the dates they attended school, their father's name and their address.

Celebrate St Patrick's Day with new newspapers

Four new Irish titles, updates to a further 29 titles, and over 215,000 more pages are ready for you to explore.

New titles:

Blarney — 1886
Kilkenny People — 1895, 1898, 1905–1919
Magee’s Weekly Packet — 1777–1785, 1787–1790, 1792–1793
PAT — 1881–1882
World (Dublin) — 1840–1851

Updated titles:

Anglo-Celt — 1850–1857, 1871–1873, 1890–1896
Belfast Linen Trade Circular — 1852–1856, 1858–1877, 1880–1884
Belfast Telegraph — 2015–2018
Catholic Standard — 1963
Cork Free Press — 1910–1915
Cork Weekly Herald — 1874–1881, 1883–1884, 1887–1896
Dublin Evening Telegraph — 1883–1885
Dublin Hospital Gazette — 1845–1846, 1854
Eastern Post — 1926
Evening Irish Times — 1918
Evening News (Dublin) — 1863–1864
Galway Weekly Advertiser — 1830–1839
Irish Field — 1870–1880, 1888–1896, 1911
Irish Textile Journal — 1886–1892, 1895–1896
Larne Reporter and Northern Counties Advertiser — 1885
Morning Mail (Dublin) — 1871–1879, 1896
Nenagh Guardian — 1878–1879, 1885–1899
North Antrim Standard — 1890–1906, 1908–1920, 1922
Northern Standard — 1872–1880, 1882–1884, 1887–1890, 1892–1896, 1914, 1916–1919
Peterborough Advertiser — 1975
Saturday Record (Ennis) — 1898–1929, 1931–1936
Skibbereen & West Carbery Eagle — 1870, 1872–1874, 1876–1882, 1884–1885, 1887–1921
Tuam Herald — 1873–1878, 1883–1909, 1911
Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail — 1902–1909
Waterford Mail — 1870, 1872–1896
Waterford Mirror and Tramore Visitor — 1808–1809, 1813, 1827–1836, 1841–1843
Waterford News — 1872–1880, 1882, 1884, 1886–1896
Western People — 1913–1920
Westmeath Guardian and Longford News-Letter — 1835–1840

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