A free printable family tree chart

Add your Irish ancestors to these blank family trees

This free printable family tree chart records four generations of direct ancestors, including your parents, in a horizontal family tree format with the relationship of each person recorded.

To download and open either of these free printable family tree charts, you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. You can get the latest version, free, from www.adobe.com

Neatly completed and framed, it looks great hanging on a wall, and is a certain conversational piece.

You can download the chart after selecting from the options below.

You have a choice of download, depending partly on what software you have on your computer and partly on how you will complete the chart.

Either way, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Here are your options:

Option 1: You want to print off the chart and fill in your Irish ancestors' details by hand. This download will be successful with any version of Acrobat Reader.

Option 2: You want to fill in the form on screen and print off the completed tree. To do this, you'll need Acrobat Reader version 8 or higher. You will not be able to save the completed chart to your computer so you need to be ready to fill in the chart with all your ancestors' names in one go.

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Dublin's O'Connell Street

Since the late 18th century, O'Connell Street (previously known as Sackville Street) has been Dublin's main north-south thoroughfare. It was originally designed as an elegant boulevard, a place where formal state parades could be held and where fashionable 'Society types' could promenade.

It has changed quite a bit since then, not least because many of its original buildings were blown up in the 1916 Easter Rising and the Irish Civil War of 1922.

Today, it can, at times, seem little more than a grand alley of fast-food litter, untidy bus queues and traffic fumes.

The Lir Clock, O'Connell Street, Dublin.

But it is one of Europe's widest streets (49m wide at the bridge end) and home to a handful of fine old buildings including the General Post Office with its impressive Ionic columns. It is also the main route of Dublin's St Patrick's Day parade and a national focus point for state occasions, and people still arrange to meet under the Clerys or Lir clocks .

Along the central plaza is an eclectic collection of statues and monuments to the great and the good of Irish history. Among them are the O'Connell (1882) and Parnell (1911) Monuments; an 1893 statue of Fr Mathew (1790-1856), a friar from Tipperary who crusaded against the abuse of alcohol and founded the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association; and an 1980 statue to Jim Larkin (1867-1943) who led the Dublin General Strike in 1913. It is also home to the Spire of Dublin, a 120m pin of stainless steel erected in 2003, which claims to be the world's tallest sculpture.