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This Fri, 26 Sept: Join @nejohnst.bsky.social, Head of Early Modern Records @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, for "Ireland 1485–1798: colonial laboratory?" www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...

Great to see a good turnout at @tcdunit18.bsky.social for @cwallacedublin.bsky.social's talk on Wed 17th titled "30 June 1922 – Dublin’s biggest explosion? Recovering the lost Public Record Office of Ireland”. @historytcd.bsky.social

We're excited to release the conference programme for 'Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives'. There is limited space so if you would like to attend please book a place using the link below as soon as possible. Attendance is free but booking is essential!

This Fri, 19 September: Join Paul Dryburgh, medieval collections specialist @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, for "England's first colony: medieval Ireland, 1171-1500". An overview of English intervention in Ireland and its role in the political development of the British and Irish isles.

We hope you enjoyed our #FiantFriday series, curated by our fabulous Data Steward, Sadhbh Dunne! In case you missed any posts, you can find them all here in our new Fiant Friday Image Gallery: virtualtreasury.ie/image-galler...

Speaking at the @cerl-community.bsky.social Collection Security Summer School in @nlireland.bsky.social and glad to see this 🙂👇👇 I hope nobody lights that fire!🔥

Tailte Éireann is delighted to take part in Culture Night 2025 on 19 September. Taking place in the beautiful Registry of Deeds building, guests will get a tour of the building and a chance to view original items from our archives. Booking is essential via www.eventbrite.com/e/culture-ni...

Make Your Thursdays Count! Looking for something different after work? 🕔 The National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street is open late on Thurs 11 & 18 Sept until 8 PM. ✨ Discover the stunning Words on the Wave exhibition 📍 Free entry, no booking needed. www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/L...

UPCOMING EVENT Dear Friends, Join us on Saturday 4 October in the Robert Emmet Theatre (Room 2037), Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin, for our 26th Medieval Dublin symposium, organised with the support of the Department of History of TCD as part of the Dublin Festival of History [1/3]

For the final #FiantFriday, Donald O’Hydryscoll is formerly pardoned 'for procuring and publishing bulls from the court of Rome' 😳 Moral of the story? Don't question Tudor hegemony!!! 👑 #TudorHistory virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-Fi...

#FiantFriday in 1587 Waterford: 'Forasmuch as foreign invasion may be doubted from beyond seas, and if any such happen their landing-place likely to be at the haven of Waterford; the commissioners are to view and muster the able men in the city...' View it here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-Fi...

On 3 Oct I'll be talking online about 19th century #ireland for @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy & @virtualtreasury.bsky.social On 4 Oct I'll be in #thurles at an event organised by #Tipperary #Museum of Hidden History about death & burial. Info about both here: www.gillianobrien.net/events-2

🚨 New image gallery: Women’s Voices in the Rebellion Papers 📜 From petitions and depositions to intercepted letters and court testimonies, the National Archives of Ireland’s Rebellion Papers reveal women’s roles in 1798 in all their complexity. 🔗 virtualtreasury.ie/image-galler...

We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

Tickets are now available for ‘Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives’. The conference will take place @tlrhub.bsky.social on the 9-10 October. For booking and more information use the link below. www.eventbrite.ie/e/ireland-an...

Our colleague Dr @spchendriks.bsky.social has a chapter titled "The records of Dublin’s late medieval guild of carpenters" out in a new publication on Medieval Dublin from Four Courts Press. You can order a copy here: www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2024/m...

Great crowds at yesterday's Really Useful Family History Show in PRONI, organised by @nifhs.bsky.social and sponsored by @federationfhs.bsky.social. Thanks to all who joined! @briangurrin.bsky.social @cwallacedublin.bsky.social

Elizabethan Globalisation at work in today's #FiantFriday, which 'recites that the Flemish patentees are skilled in the planting and dressing of woad and madder, and of rape and linseed for making oil, that they have learned that some parts of the soil of Ireland are very apt for the purpose' !

VRTI Research Fellow Dr @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social gave a talk this past week about the medieval treasurers of Ireland and their surviving records in the Jubilee Room in the UK Houses of Parliament to the London Historians.

@kilkennycoco.bsky.social is seeking applications for an archivist (closing date 2 September at 16.00pm). More information available here: kilkennycoco.ie/eng/your_cou...

Our colleague @briangurrin.bsky.social was in Monivea last week for the launch of the 1891 census of Monivea locality. Read more about this fascinating publication on our news page: virtualtreasury.ie/news/monivea...

Excited to share a new collaboration led by Dr Eamon Darcy @maynoothuniversity.ie‬ with ‪@ria.ie @dri.ie‬ The Molyneux Papers-20 vivid county descriptions from the 1680s online: virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll... + 👀👇 ‪@rtebrainstorm.bsky.social‬ tinyurl.com/yc3b3tpa #IrishHistory 📷TCD Library

Looking for a fun weekend activity in Belfast? The FHF Really Useful Family History Show 2025 is coming to PRONI on Saturday 23 August from 10am - 4pm. @briangurrin.bsky.social and @cwallacedublin.bsky.social from our team will be presenting on the new Population Portal.

IGRS Top Research Tip #168: Search this site for records of the Irish migration to, and settlement in, Newfoundland in eastern Canada, 1750-1850. Huge numbers hailed from Ireland’s southeast, specifically counties Kilkenny, Waterford & Wexford: www.mannioncollection.ca/default.aspx

One week until the Really Useful Show comes to PRONI in Belfast. Join us there! #FamilyHistory #ReallyUsefulShow #Genealogy www.familyhistoryfederation.com/fhf-really-u...

This #FiantFriday from 1581 'recites that a controversy was heard at Rosspont, between the bishop of Waterford and many of the citizens, relative to plundering the cathedral of Christ Church in Waterford, and that it appeared that the bishop was most unjustly accused by them' (!!!)

Bríd was always generous with her expertise, an early and valued colleague in our research. We will miss her very much. Sincere condolences to her family and her many, many friends.

@cwallacedublin.bsky.social will be joining Galway Co. Council/Galway Heritage Groups for a special event next Wednesday: "Tracing your Galway Roots: Discover Your Family History" www.eventbrite.ie/e/tracing-yo...

This #FiantFriday 🎉 features the landmark establishment of the 'The Guild of the Blessed Mary Magdalene', which saw the merging in 1577 of the formerly distinct societies of Barbers💈and Surgeons 🩺 'for the preservation of health' #TudorDublin virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-Fi...

Citizens of Trim - Beware escaped medieval prisoners! This #FiantFriday from 1557 sees Laurence Hamond, constable of the castle of Trim, pardoned for 'the escape of certain prisoners' virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-Fi... @opwireland.bsky.social

In the past, money could look quite different — especially in the 17th century. In this image, we see a proclamation declaring which kinds of foreign currency would be accepted in 1661 and what their value would be.

With the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social’s exhibition, I’ve now seen three of the six exhibitions from the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social’s Libraries Network. Obviously, I was thrilled to see the fifteenth century map! Just don’t try to get from Dublin to Holyhead using it…

Wycliffites?! Hussites?! Waldensians?! This #FiantFriday proves particularly illuminating with regard to the evolution of medieval heresy. Below is a 1557 pardon pertaining to heresies and abettings of hereties and lollards! Read more at virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-Fi...

Barry Lyndon returns to the big screen this month @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social @lighthousecinema.bsky.social - and with it, duels, exile, and the Prussian army take centre stage once more. But did you know that echoes of Kubrick’s masterpiece can be found in real Irish history?

Three old maps of the Rockwell demesne and Rockwell townland published in 1850, 1862 and 1898 @virtualtreasury.bsky.social @tippstudies.bsky.social @ucdlibrary.bsky.social

Lovely to be able to pop down from the reading room to see @spchendriks.bsky.social and @virtualtreasury.bsky.social’s new exhibition at @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Already pretty busy as part of the wider Treasures Gallery!

Today, Collecting Ireland's History (curated by our colleague @spchendriks.bsky.social) opens at @britishlibrary.bsky.social, exploring the diverse approaches to collecting Irish historical manuscripts of the last 700 years and the role of libraries in preserving and recovering lost materials.

IGRS Top Research Tip #164: Ever searched the Fiants? These were orders to issue letters patent recording a right, pardon, pension, grant, title etc. Surrogates for about 8000 records for the period 1521-1603 survive in calendared form. Search or read more here: virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/f...

Is fearr an tsláinte ná an táinte! For today's #FiantFriday, Sir Edm. Dowyne is granted 'custody, mastership and oversight of the spittle houses or magdaleines of Leghlin and Balligawran (in Co. Carlow), for relief of the poor leprous people dwelling in those places' #TudorHistory

What began as a simple search in the archives led our @historytcd.bsky.social intern Morgan to the rediscovery of Mary Molesworth’s tragic life, her enduring legacy, and the vibrant community efforts to remember her today. Read more in Morgan's hidden story here: virtualtreasury.ie/hidden-stori...

This Thursday @nlireland.bsky.social: A Scandal at Mass The Eyewitnesses to a Fourteenth Century Controversy. Dr. @patrickmcdonagh98.bsky.social, Research Studentship, Dept of Manuscripts & Special Collections (& previous VRTI Researcher!) on political scandals of the late 14th century in Ireland!

Happy #BastilleDay! 🇫🇷 Discover how the French Revolution echoed in Ireland through the parliamentary debates in our Irish House of Commons Gold Seam, curated by @joelherman.bsky.social. virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/i...

Welcome to #FiantFriday, our new series highlighting items in the Fiants of Tudor Monarchs Gold Seam we released at the end of 2024. This series (along with the Gold Seam) was curated by our Data Steward, Sadhbh Dunne. virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/f...

Happy American Independence Day 🇺🇸 Our Age of Revolution Portal explores the American + Irish revolutionary periods. In 1781 Henry Grattan in the Irish House of Commons names Washington + asks why the American colonies have been offered greater rights than Ireland. virtualtreasury.ie/item/LOC-MSS...

@virtualtreasury.bsky.social in French specialised press/cultural magazines. actualitte.com/article/1247...

The "Words on the Wave" exhibition is featured in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social The article explores medieval marginalia—scribbled notes and doodles left by monks over a millennium ago. Visit in person at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street. 🔗 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

Join us for a free lunchtime tour of the Royal Irish Academy Library's current exhibition, Collecting Ireland's History, in partnership with the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social Book your spot: www.tickettailor.com/events/royalirishacademy/1696592

When computer science, history, and archivists merge, you achieve a work of art! Hats off to the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social team and all involved!! Down the rabbit hole I go to explore the newly added content 🙌 #Irishhistory