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From the Field to Your Family Tree: The Ultimate NFL Game Day & Genealogy Experience

Imagine the thrill of watching your favourite NFL team play in Dublin, then tracing your Irish roots through centuries of personal history. That’s exactly what the NFL Ireland Tour with My Ireland Family Heritage delivers—an unforgettable blend of excitement and meaning.

On September 28, 2025, Aviva Stadium in Dublin will host the NFL International Game. With thousands of fans travelling in, we’re offering something truly unique: a chance to extend the game-day adrenaline with a deeply personal and historical journey through your own Irish ancestry.

Two Worlds, One Seamless Itinerary

Our expert team at My Ireland Family Heritage specialises in creating seamless, bespoke experiences. For your NFL weekend in Ireland, we can build an itinerary that includes priority access to the game, paired with a full-day or half-day Irish genealogy tour tailored entirely to your family story.

After the game, step away from the crowds and into your heritage. Our genealogy day tours take you from the pitch to parish records, from stadium seats to ancestral homesteads. We prepare everything ahead of time—your family tree, location details, and historical context—so you can focus on experiencing the moment.

Game Day Meets Genealogy in Ireland

Unlike any typical sightseeing trip, our service begins long before you arrive. We undertake detailed genealogy research in Ireland, using archives, census data, church records, and local histories to uncover your family’s story. Whether your lineage traces to bustling Southern Ireland or requires Northern Ireland genealogy research, we’ll map out a heritage journey as rich and personal as your love for the game.

This unique combination of sport and genealogy tourism in Ireland gives you the best of both worlds. One moment you’re immersed in NFL passion, the next, you’re walking the same paths your ancestors once did. And yes, our tours extend to all 32 counties in Ireland—ensuring no ancestral stone is left unturned.

Custom Tours for Football Fans and Family Historians Alike

From Dublin to Donegal, My Ireland Family Heritage’s expert genealogists can guide your journey with purpose and care. You’ll receive a personalised keepsake book with your Irish genealogy research findings and directions to ancestral towns, graveyards, and even original family homesteads.

Whether you’re extending your stay after the game or building a week-long itinerary around it, our NFL Ireland Tour offers you a chance to make your trip unforgettable. After all, few experiences rival cheering for your team in a global city—except discovering the lives of those who made your story possible.

Place to visit during NFL Ireland tour.

Your NFL Weekend, Reimagined with My Ireland Family Heritage

At My Ireland Family Heritage, we’re more than just researchers—we’re storytellers who specialise in Irish ancestry and genealogy tours designed to reconnect you with your roots. This September 2025, let us plan a memorable blend of sporting excitement and personal discovery.

Join us for the NFL Ireland Tour with a heritage twist and enjoy expert-led genealogy tours of Ireland before or after the big game.

Contact us today to get started.

 

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Customised Genealogy & Historical Tour

Review of My Ireland Heritage Tours Presented on Trip adviser Oct 2024 By • Family TomBarron2013 New York City, NY2

Once in a lifetime experience

Oct 2024 • Family

We highly recommend My Ireland Heritage for anyone who wants to learn and be guided to their Irish “roots” and much, much more. Sean Quinn and Ian Darragh of My Ireland Family Heritage have deep knowledge or the areas we wanted to visit in Meath, Sligo and Kilkenny. While we knew about one side of the family history back to 1690, there was nothing known about the other that arrived in the US in the 1870s.

Ian, Sean, and Nicola did thorough research on our localities and locations from which our ancestors left for America in 1849 and later. In addition, Ian and Sean did separate day-long “recons” in advance of our time with them, seeking out local people and the specific properties with maps and whatever records still available. Their results were absolutely outstanding! In both our cases, they found and took us to our still-existing cottages and shops from the early 1820s.

It was so enjoyable to be with Ian for three days and for a special day with Sean. Whether it was the Newgrange World Heritage sites 5,500 years old , the Battle of the Boyne 1690 , or the local cemeteries and churches of our ancestors. Ian was especially attentive to my wife throughout the travels after she twisted her ankle in a rain-soaked old cemetery.

Throughout the process of trip preparation over months to giving us the final, wonderful books of Meath and Sligo, Aisling was highly professional and responsive with all the many details. The bound books she prepared are treasures! Thanks to all for truly exceptional experiences.

Newgrange World Unesco Site 5500 years old
Battle of the Boyne 1690 AD
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Entrance stone at Newgrange

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Review of My Ireland Heritage Tours Presented on Trip adviser by Shelley L @ sjlively

Exceptional in every way!

Over the last few months of preparing for our trip, every single detail was meticulously attended, not only professionally, but helpfully, and in such a friendly manner, that I felt as if I knew Sean, Aisling and Ian before I even stepped off the plane.

The amount of work these wonderful people put into our personal history is mindboggling. My mother was an avid amateur genealogist, and had worked for decades to bring to light the trail our family took, but our resources are limited.

Sean knows exactly where to look, and was able to fill in so many gaps that had eluded us for generations. Some of the information he found, unbeknownst even to him, actually solidified the findings we had amassed over the years. Ours was a family in coal mining – I only found on our tour that they had originated from a mining area, and their arrival on the  border coincided exactly with the decline in the mining industry in County Wicklow.

I would have been overjoyed simply with the knowledge of why they left when they did, about 12 years before the famine. Breaking through our brick wall of great grandparents even farther back on the family tree was a dream come true, but to be able to set foot on not only the area they lived, and find that the house is still there was overwhelming. Seeing the family church and cemetery where our ancestors and extended family still rest is a truly moving experience.

The care taken by this company in each and every aspect of the journey cannot be overstated. Only about 2 weeks prior to my trip, Sean contacted me to let me know that he had also stumbled across some of my husband’s family name in the process and included them as well in his research. How often can anyone say that they not only got what they paid for, but more than they ever imagined? I can say that. They were even kind enough to answer a few follow-up questions after my return home, as I was so stunned on my tour with Ian that I didn’t think ask at the time.If you have the opportunity to make the trip to Ireland, contact My Ireland Family Heritage before you go.

If your family was there, Sean will go above and beyond to find them. Even without family, contact them anyway. Ian is a walking encyclopedia of history, and so fun to talk to. Aisling will make sure every “I” is dotted, and every “T” is crossed.  Thank you so much for the trip of a lifetime, and the opportunity to pass on everything we have discovered to future generations

The Consultation at Hotel / Office or by Phone opens all doors
Genealogy gets you off the Beaten Track to see the Real Ireland

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