We’re delighted to announce a new collection in the Repository: Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage, published by @ullibrary.bsky.social 🗺️🏛️ The collection features Ordnance Survey bench marks across Limerick, photographed in 2025–26. Find out more: dri.ie/news/new-col...

How can repositories and digital preservation together protect scholarly and cultural heritage? Please join us Feb 23 in conversation with Dr Luís Miguel Nunes Corujo (Portugal) co-author of Preservation & Digital Repositories: Connections, Possibilities, and Needs. stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🖼️ Edwin John Prittie

DRI is pleased to announce that Repository metadata is now being shared with OpenAIRE, enhancing the discoverability of publications and datasets across Europe and Ireland 🔎📖 Read more on our latest blog: dri.ie/news/dri-is-... #OpenAIRE #OpenAccess #ResearchCommunity #Discoverability

⚙️The DRI website (dri.ie) and repository (repository.dri.ie/) will be offline between 8am and 10am on Thursday 22nd January 2026 in order for essential maintenance to be performed⚙️ We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Please get in touch at [email protected] with any queries or concerns.

📣FIAT/IFTA PMC, with RTÉ & the Digital Repository of Ireland, invites submissions for the first on-site PMC Seminar at the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin), June 2026. Topics: preservation, migration & digital preservation of media content. Find out more: fiatifta.org/pmc-seminar-...

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Nollaig na mBan: 'Its modern revival is a celebration of female friendship and connection' jrnl.ie/6919674

We would like to extend warm wishes to you all and a happy New Year's Eve! From @dclareadingroom.bsky.social collection in DRI, cast your mind back to 1955 and the New Year celebrations in Dublin City. If you look to the back right, you can see a circle of people, presumably singing Auld Lang Syne.

Goodnight. 🖼️ Hare and Moonshadows, Colin See-Paynton.

A free Xmas day dinner put on by my local Belfast Bengali restaurant for people by themselves during the holidays #EverydayMulticulturalism

Morning. Winter Hare, Vanessa Bowman.

Finally! Yes!

📢The DRI December newsletter is out now! This month's updates include news of the 2026 Community Archive Scheme winner, several new collections in the Repository, and other #DigiPres news and events. Read the latest issue and subscribe: mailchi.mp/ria/dri-dece...

In exciting news, Sonraí Irish Data Stewardship Network recently launched a new Microcredential, Introduction to Data Stewardship at UCC! The closing date for bursary applications is Friday 12 December 2025 at 5pm, so apply as soon as possible! Read more: dri.ie/news/sonrai-...

We are delighted to announce the publication of the 'Butter Wrapper' collection in the Repository! Published by the Butter Museum, Cork - this collection highlights the evolution of butter packaging, featuring vintage designs that reflect changing trends. Find out more: dri.ie/news/new-col...

There's less than a month left to submit your proposal for a workshop, talk or poster for next summer's DPASSH conference! Don't miss out on a #DigitalPreservation event focused on all things #Play, from playing well with others ❤️ to preserving playable media. 👾 dpassh.org/conference-t...

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....

The 2026 @dri.ie Community Archive Scheme winner is Holly Lennon and her collection 'Long Kesh Style'. We all love working on this scheme and it's a really wonderful opportunity to celebrate the work being done by community archivists across Ireland.

A 34-year secret shrouded in shame paved the way to teach children about the horrors of our past www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

We are pleased to share the DRI AI Statement 2025. This statement details the DRI’s position regarding the use of AI tools and technologies and was developed in collaboration with DRI staff, our Expert Advisory Group (EAG), and DRI Members. Read more: dri.ie/news/dri-ai-...

As government support for sheltering Ukrainian refugees dwindles, finding somewhere to live means taking more risks. “I understand now how valuable it is to help each other. How important it is to have a roof over your head, to have community.”

So we coloured in Helene Hanff’s dog - of course it had to be yellow (in honour of the New York taxi cab, Playbill booklets and the starry lights of Broadway, where this book is set). #underfootinshowbusiness #booksky 💛🌟🚖📒

ADHD ‘over-represented’ among those in addiction treatment services in Dublin, Wicklow

📣 Calling all Arts & Humanities researchers in Ireland working with digital tools & data! ➡️ DRI and DARIAH-IE invite feedback on a draft Research Sustainability Workflow: dri.ie/news/researc... ➡️ @dariahie.bsky.social also launched an Engagement Survey to map community needs: dri.ie/news/dariah-...

It's #MapMonday ! This Post Office Circulation map from 1894 shows the principal mail routes and means of mail conveyance throughout Ireland. It is from the collection 'Delivering the mail - how the Post Office worked', deposited in the DRI by An Post Museum & Archive: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

#ipres2025 might have wrapped up yesterday, but today we are meeting for the 2nd day for #parbica21 where we will continue our conversation on demystifying digital https://parbica.org/conferences-and-events/parbica-21-demystifying-digital/

House Oversight Committee Democrats have requested former Prince Andrew sit for interview about his Epstein ties,aiming to uncover the full crime network & identify his co-conspirators & enablers. Evidence suggests Andrew holds critical info. GOP members refuse to sign. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

So excited to hear this! I already know it'll be a belter. Can't wait.

💻 Happy #WorldDigitalPreservationDay! The @nlireland.bsky.social keeps safe our country’s cultural heritage by preserving born-digital and digitised collections. Learn more: www.nli.ie/collections/...

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is hiring! Applications are invited for the position of Research and Engagement, Senior Programme Manager as part of the DRI team headquartered at the Royal Irish Academy. Apply by 27.11.2025 at 3pm. www.ria.ie/about/career...

We are thrilled to announce that Dublin and Belfast will host iPRES (the International Conference on Digital Preservation) in 2030🎉 We're delighted with this opportunity and look forward to collaborating with our partners to create a fantastic iPRES 2030! Read more: dri.ie/news/dublin-... @ria.ie

Happy World Digital Preservation Day y’all. Here is our wonderful memberships manager Maeve O’Brien introducing the work of @dri.ie #WDPID2025

It's HERE... World Digital Preservation Day 2025!! We are excited to kick off #WDPD2025 with our traditional opening blog from #DPC Executive Director William Kilbride, writing from the #iPRES2025 conference in Aotearoa New Zealand - one of the first places in […] [Original post on digipres.club]

Attending Aotearoa Wellington #ipres2025 virtually means that #wdpd feels like an extra long celebration this year. So while it's still 8:00 on Wednesday here, I feel like I can already post Happy World Digital Preservation Day post 🎉

Day 4 of #ipres2025! We have Peter-Lucas Jones, CEO Te Hiku Media, for our final keynote. https://www.ipres2025.nz/keynote-speakers

#iPRES2025 How many formats are there? @anjacks0n.bsky.social presents a paper on seeing if we can answer the question. Some detective work gets him to the number 12k (I think)

“Getty Images said: “We remain deeply concerned that even well-resourced companies such as Getty Images face significant challenges in protecting their creative works given the lack of transparency requirements.” www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

The #iPRES25 content you didn't know you needed- Wellington has the most beautiful bookshops and here are three of my favourites- Unity Books, Art Bees Books and Pegasus Books 😻📚

Powerful opening keynote at #ipres2025 from Simon Kofe who talks about what it REALLY means to be a digital nation - preserving identity, status and culture where no physical territory exists.

#iPRES2025 Keynote by The Hon. Simon Kofe from Tuvalu. He discusses the sovereign rights in precarious times thanks to climate change. They could be the first digital nation: the first to exist fully online without a physical country. And he discusses what that may look like

Good morning Australia! On Thurs Nov 6 I will be talking about my topics: digital collections, EEBO, ECCO, and my current project, Digital Borderlands In the Classroom. We are live @ Australian National Uni & I believe there will be a zoom link events.humanitix.com/collections-...

Feeling very lucky to be at #iPRES25 We had the most amazing welcome in Wellington. Well done to the superb local hosts @ipres2025.bsky.social 👏

Missing out on @ipres2025.bsky.social this week? You can join #iPRESradio each day in different time zones to catch up: www.dpconline.org/events/event... DRI's @lisagriffith.bsky.social and Jaye Weatherburn, NFSA Australia sent the hosts a lovely video postcard to make us feel like we're there. ❤️

When me, @judesherry.bsky.social found 700 derelict properties within 2km of Cork city centre we knew dereliction was normalised with devastating impacts #DerelictIreland a self-organising grassroots movement was born focusing on changing policy, practice, culture, & demonstrating people power works

Dead Man's Fingers #Mushrooms (Xylaria polymorpha) or Dead Moll’s Fingers (Xylaria longipes) ? #fungi #horror #gothic #halloween

A #HappyHalloween from the team at DRI! In 1933, this @anpostcommerce.bsky.social postal lorry was in service in Dublin to deliver the mail. For #Samhain in 2025, it's delivering spooky seasonal greetings! 🎃 See the An Post collection in the Repository to learn more doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

i am asking all the cis people in my life to make a LOT of fucking noise about this