Join us for the next #EDI lecture in our series on 29th Jan at 1pm. Dr. Barry Houlihan will talk about The Playwright on the Stairs: Recovering the archives and Legacies of Irish Women Writers. For more info & to book a ticket ⬇️ www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-playwr...

Thank you to all who participated in the #EYAFocusWeek2025! There is still one more #ExploreYourArchive / #CuardaighDoChartlann theme for December for all those who already have or want to get involved and it is #EYASparkle | #EYADrithle ✨ @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

What a wonderful campaign @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @araireland.bsky.social Thank you so much for all your hard work, a pleasure to take part. A favourite, Whitchurch Hosp has military & mental health history - used during the First & Second World Wars. #EYAYourArchive #EYAFocusWeek

To wrap up the #ExploreYourArchive focus week, we are sharing a festive item from our collections. This is a 1938 sales catalogue of personalised Christmas greeting cards sold by Royal Renaissance Art Christmas Cards. #EYAYourArchives @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @araireland.bsky.social

Today is the last day of the Explore Your Archive focus week and we want to see #EYAYourArchives | #EYADoChartlann! Don’t forget to tag 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann

We're delving into the Post Office Irish Postage Stamp Collection for today's #ExploreYourArchive theme #EYAAnniversaries #EYACuimhneacháin This stamp was published in 1997 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Irish state: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

2025 marked the anniversaries of the opening (1895) & closing (1935) of the Galway-Clifden railway. Arthur J. Balfour's album documents the railway's construction. The Balfour album is fully digitised: digital.library.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/categor... #EYAAnniversaries #ExploreYourArchive

On day 8 of the Explore Your Archive focus week the theme is #EYAAnniversaries | #EYACuimhneacháin! We want to see all of your commemorations & anniversaries, don’t forget to tag 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann

The focus is on #EYAInclusion #EYACuimsiú today for #ExploreYourArchive❤️ We're celebrating Cuimhneamh an Chláir's collection of oral histories focusing on women's stories. This is an interview with Biddy Kilmartin of Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare in the Women's Stories Collection: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

For today's #ExploreYourArchive theme #EYADigital #EYADigiteach we are looking at some of the born-digital content in the DRI. This Tiktok video shows an Alliance for Choice Derry activist engaging in stigma-busting & information sharing regarding abortion support in Ireland: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

For #EYAInclusion, we are highlighting our valued partnership with @DublinCityCouncilCuturalCompany. Each month, Tailte Éireann hosts a Culture Club event, which is aimed at introducing new audience to our archives and removing barriers to access. #ExploreYourArchives

Téama lá a 7 ná #EYACuimsiú Taispeánann Dr Mary Warde Moriarty grianghraf dá hathair, Edward Warde, dúinn ó chartlann Mincéirs. Tá cuid den chartlann ar fáil go digiteach anseo: digital.library.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/categor... #CuardaighDoChartlann @araireland.bsky.social

Today's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAInclusion At the 2024 launch of the Mincéirs Archive of Irish Travellers, Dr Mary Warde Moriarty shows a photo of her father, Edward Warde, held in the collection Credit: Aengus McMahon, August 2024 @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @araireland.bsky.social

Day 7 of the Explore Your Archive focus week is #EYAInclusion | #EYACuimsiú. Don’t forget to tag 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann

For #EYADigital, we are highlighting several avenues to access digitised collections relating to Tailte Éireann. With thanks to the wonderful partners that we have collaborated with on these initiatives.

We’re proud to hold a range of #EYADigital collections: photos, documents, audio, video and born-digital material. Today we’re highlighting the Imirce Project, which shares thousands of Irish emigrant letters and life stories. Explore it here: imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms #ExploreYourArchive

& practice signatures where she trialed the quill & ink before having to use them officially. There is also an official programme of events, alongside programmes for the inauguration of her successors #MaryMcAleese & #MichaelDHiggins, which she attended as a former President  @araireland.bsky.social

Last month, President Catherine Connolly, Ireland's 10th President, & 3rd female president was officially inaugurated into office. Yesterday, 3rd of December was the 35th anniversary of the inauguration of Mary Robinson, our 7th President & the first female President. @araireland.bsky.social #EYA

Day 6 of the EYA focus week is #EYADigital | #EYADigiteach, whether it’s digitization, born digital or digital preservation we want to hear all about it! Don’t forget to 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann

Lá 5 do #CuardaighdoChartlann , an téama ná #EYAPeataí, seo grianghraf álainn ó #chartlann Uachtaráin de Micheál D. Ó hUigínn lena chara Richard Kearney, a theaghlach, agus an dá ghadhar is cáiliúla sa tír, #Bród agus #Misneach, 31 Eanáir 2016. #micheálDÓhUigínn

The Boy Who Drew Cats from the Ringling North collection. Lafcadio Hearn, in The Boy Who Drew Cats, retells a Japanese folk tale and explores themes of creativity and individuality. #EYAPets #ExploreYourArchive

Today's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAPets #EYAPeataí 🐶❤️ This photograph captures a moment of quiet seaside reflection for a man and his dog. From the Ports, Past and Present Collection, deposited in the DRI by University College Cork. @araukie.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

For #EYAPets we are highlighting the Will of Thomas Knox registered on 1st July 1721 in the Registry of Deeds. It includes great detail on how he was bequeathing his estate and possessions, including bestowing his animals to many of his friends and family. @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

Here's Nancy McCarthy with her two poodles 'Mike' and 'Mel' #EYAPets #archives @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @ucclibrary.bsky.social

Some more #EYAPets in our archives! Siobhán McKenna's dogs, a terrier called Pegeen Mike, and her beloved elkhound, Rory. After Rory passed away, a friend of Siobhán's wrote this tribute to him. #ExploreYourArchive @araireland.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

Today's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAPets From his Presidential archive, a photograph of Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, with his friend Richard Kearney and his family, along with his two dogs Bród and Misneach, 31 Jan 2016. @araireland.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

On day 5 of the Explore Your Archive focus week we want to see all of your furry (or hairless) #EYAPets | #EYAPeataí! Don’t forget to tag 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann

Lose yourself in this landscape from #westcork #ireland #EYASilence @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @ucclibrary.bsky.social #archives #localhistory #watercolour #art #landscape

For today's #EYA theme #EYASilence #EYACiúnas we are thinking of some of the underrepresented voices in the historical record. This photo, titled Mr. Austin's servants, shows household servants in uniform in the early twentieth century. @araukie.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

One of many events highlighted during this week's #ExploreYourArchive focus week. If you're in and around Galway, be sure to check out @druidtheatre.bsky.social exhibition currently @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social!

Lá 4 do #CuardaighdoChartlann @araireland.bsky.social An téama ná #EYAciúnas, aistriúchán do Oíche Chiún socraigh ag Colonel Sauerzweig ó Chartlann Conradh na Gaeilge! @cnagaeilge.bsky.social

Colonel Sauerzweig’s arrangement and translation of 'Silent Night' from the Conradh na Gaeilge archive🌟 Humming beneath the melody, the lower voices in the quartet set a quiet, peaceful tone that fits today’s #ExploreYourArchive theme of #EYASilence @araireland.bsky.social @cnagaeilge.bsky.social

For #EYASilence, we are highlighting the eighteenth-century Business Partnership Records in the Registry of Deeds, also known as the ‘Anonymous Partnership Records’. Please visit virtualtreasury.ie/item/ROD-PR-AP. #ExploreYourArchive @TheVirtualRecordTreasuryofIreland @ara-ireland

Some quiet moments spent by visitors to archaeological monuments. #EYASilence From our historic print collection. 📷Ardmore Cathedral, Co Waterford 📷Carrowmore, Co Sligo (Welch 1896) #Day4 #CuardaighDoChartlann #EYACiúnas #ExploreYourArchive @araukie.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

Shhh!!!! Day 4 of the Explore Your Archive focus week is #EYASilence | #EYACiúnas! Don’t forget to tag 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann

For today's EYA theme of #EYAMedieval | #EYAMeánaoiseach we are sharing this beautiful Visigothic brooch fragment in bronze. From 'The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages - The Hunt Museum', deposited by the Hunt Museum: doi.org/10.7486/DRI.... @araukie.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

It's #ExploreYourArchive Week! The theme for day 1 was #EYAConservation | #EYACaomhnú This image is from the Praeger collection, which represents one of the most important botanical initiatives in Ireland as it provided a baseline for modern-day conservation: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

Two #medievalmonuments standing proud for #Day3 of #ExploreYourArchive 📷Hook Head Lighthouse, Co. Wexford 📷Clough Oughter Castle, Co. Cavan #EYA2025 #CuardaighDoChartlann #EYAMedieval #EYAMeánaoiseach #Archives @araireland.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

This deed from the Guild of St Anne Gold Seam contains some beautiful Gothic #paleography. From Theresa O'Byrne: "The N has an open rose in the center, and the initial stroke ends in light, curled, foliate sprays." #ExploreYourArchive #EYAMedieval virtualtreasury.ie/item/RIA-GSA...

#EYAMedieval On 12 April 1386 this Decree of Peter Hacket, Archbishop of Cashel given in the church of Kinsale, records evidence that the rectory of Kinsale belongs to the monastery of Bath. #Corkhistory #hiddenhistory #research @ucclibrary.bsky.social #archives @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

Lá 3 do #EYACuardaighDoChartlann, @araireland.bsky.social Is é téama an lae inniu ná #EYAMeánaoiseach Tá sé dochreidte cé chomh sean agus atá na bíobla seo: "Is Tráchtaireacht Bíobla le Nicholas of Lyra (c.1270-1349) é seo i gcló ag an gclódóir ar an Nuremberg Chronicle, Anton Koberger in 1497"

Don’t forget to sign up for this lunchtime talk happening tomorrow @nlireland.bsky.social! The talk includes original research into manuscript collections held by NLI to shed light on the variety of information to be found in different church records. www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

Today's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAMedieval Some of the oldest books in our collections are these volumes of Bible commentary by Nicholas of Lyra (c. 1270-1349), printed in 1497 by Anton Koberger, printer of the Nuremberg Chronicle. @araireland.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

@araireland.bsky.social Explore your Archive kicked off over the weekend and our @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social account have been sharing some gorgeous posts based on each day's theme! #EYAConservation #ExploreYourArchive #EYACaomhnú #CuardaighDoChartlann

Nach álainn na íomhá chumhach seo le haghaidh lá a 2! @araireland.bsky.social Irisí Vogue ó chartlann Siobhán McKenna, le grianghraf de Siobhán McKenna lena clann san áireamh, agus fógraí le haghaidh stocaí níolóin. #EYAÁilleacht #CuardaighDoChartlann #Eyabeauty #ExploreYourArchive

The day 3 theme of the Explore Your Archive focus week is #EYAMedieval | #EYAMeánaoiseach! Hasten with thy content and forgetteth not to tag 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann

Siobhán McKenna's collection of 1950s Vogue magazines including a feature on Siobhán and her family, and plenty of ads for nylon tights. A snapshot of beauty in the 1950s! #EYABeauty #ExploreYourArchive

We have so many fantatsic photographs in our collection @ucclibrary.bsky.social, it was difficult to narrow it down for the theme of beauty. We are sharing three stellar examples here by Alen MacWeeney [UCC © 2022 (All Rights Reserved)] and from the Liam Kennedy Collection. #EYA2025 #EYABeauty

#Day2 Ireland’s archaeological monuments are enhanced by the #beauty of the surrounding landscape. 📷Killeshin Church, Co. Laois 📷Muckross Abbey, Co. Kerry 📷Glendalough, Co. Wicklow #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann #EYAÁilleacht @araireland.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

It is day 2 of the Explore Your Archive focus week & we want to see all things #EYABeauty | #EYAÁilleacht! Don’t forget to tag 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann