Mobo, its tough. I tried to find my Irish ancestors a couple of years ago but made zero progress and gave up. Just decided to try again and posted this message over the weekend:
"I found my ggg grandfather, Edward Dwyer was born in Ireland but cannot find from which town or county. Based on the 1841 census in England, he was born between 1791 and 1796; his first wife was Mary, born 1796 to 1801 also in Ireland; they had a son Richard born abt 1821 in Ireland; their first daughter, Marry Ann, was born in Leeds in 1828. So, Edward and Mary appear to have come to Leeds between 1821 and 1828. He was a weaver and they lived in the Richmond Hill area of the city. Mary died in 1842 and Edward married a Sarah Park, born in Ireland, in 1843.
Grateful for any help or advice in how I could trace the family in Ireland."
Reading some of the replies to your message made me realised that I had forgotten something important. The children born in England where baptised into the Church of England (St Peters, the Parish Church of Leeds). Can I assume that they were a protestant family in Ireland and therefore I should be looking in the northern counties?
Any ideas grateful recieved!!
Steve