Director’s Tour of the National Library of Ireland 📚 Part of Dublin by Dusk 🌃 📅 Thurs 25 June, 6pm Join Director Dr Audrey Whitty for a guided tour of the NLI’s Victorian building on Kildare St inc. the stunning Reading Room & stories of Ireland’s great writers & thinkers https://ow.ly/J4m650Z3KGO

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

For you paleontology fans, here is a ~400 MYO Devonian tetrapod trackway (one of 3 known worldwide) at Valentia Island in SW Ireland. It was made by one of the earliest amphibians on wet sand or mud.

IGRS Top Research Tip #209: The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland - PRONI - runs talks and events every month relevant to its readers. Some in-person, some on-line, and some hybrid. Check here for details: www.proni.gov.uk/events

We’re thrilled to announce 16 new sub-collections from @ihtaria.bsky.social are now published in the Repository! 🎉 Covering Derry~Londonderry, Dublin, Belfast, Athlone, Kilkenny & more, these ingests mark a step forward in IHTA’s long-term digital preservation plans. More: dri.ie/news/ihta-an...

On our New Researchers' Blog: The Right Time and Place? by @tiarnanheaney.bsky.social (@quceh.bsky.social), on how the Congested Districts Board reduced poverty in the west of Ireland, lifting three people out of poverty per £1 spent. Special commendation, ESHSI 2025. www.eshsi.org/new-research...

Trash talk in 18th Ireland: "go you in you dirty creature".

What does revolution look like when you put women's role at the centre? Join us online on Thursday 4 June, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm for Women in Revolution: From the Margins to the Centre events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d2a073... Attendance is free, all are welcome. (Shared posts are welcome too! 😊)

getting ready for “demanding accurate footnotes is popery” discourse

What is the revolutionary view from this vantage point? Join us online for Women in Revolution: From the Margins to the Centre Thursday 4 June 2026 7:00-8:15PM Attendance is free. All are welcome 👇👇 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d2a073... 📷 Lotherton Hall, W. Yorkshire. Creative Commons

City of God just dropped.

Having a lovely time shall not want to come back to work.

Director’s Tour of the National Library of Ireland 📚 Part of Dublin by Dusk 🌃 📅 Thurs 25 June, 6pm Join Director Dr Audrey Whitty for a guided tour of the NLI’s Victorian building on Kildare St inc. the stunning Reading Room & stories of Ireland’s great writers & thinkers https://ow.ly/J4m650Z3KGO

A happy looking dog at court! From the engraved title page of Hugo de Groot's Introduction to Dutch jurisprudence, printed in 1636.

Pope Leo urges world to 'slow down' on AI in fervent first manifesto reut.rs/3Pn2onr

Was lucky enough to meet Lucy and participate in this documentary. Very grateful to be included. It‘s on BBC Two tonight and tomorrow.

Another animated true size type of map. This lovely version is from the great @milan_janosov.

🗳️ By-election tallies LIVE! 🚨 🔵 Dublin Central bit.ly/DublinCentral26 🟣 Galway West bit.ly/GalwayWest26 Updates here throughout the day(s)!

I sat next to the wife of the president of the University of Swansea.

Tickets for 2026 Hinterland Fest now on sale at www.hinterland.ie Guests include @mcculld.bsky.social @miriamocal.bsky.social @fotoole.bsky.social @sjamcbride.bsky.social @cwallacedublin.bsky.social @patrickfreyne.bsky.social @edelcoffey.bsky.social @liznugent.bsky.social @rusbradburd.bsky.social

Nice idea at the polling station in Dublin Central today.

Located in Research Collections, the College Archives also hold rich resources for historical and genealogical research, from Board minutes and student entrance registers to College calendars or “guide books” documenting life at Trinity year by year.

Brilliant

Don’t forget to register for ‘Women in Revolution’. A discussion on the revolutionary lives of women with @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social, Dr Catriona Kennedy, and @earner.bsky.social. See the rest of the thread for talk titles. Registration link👇(1/3) events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d2a073...

Last week, NLI Director Dr Audrey Whitty and the British Ambassador to Ireland, her Excellency Kara Owen, officially opened the Edgeworth festival in Edgeworthstown Library, marking its 30th year. Read more about the launch via Longford Leader: https://ow.ly/HB0Q50Z35Tq

🕰️ The NLI’s reading rooms and ticket office will open to readers from 9:30-13:00 on the following Saturdays in 2026: https://www.nli.ie/news-stories/news/saturday-opening-hours-january-december-2026

#DIBLives A prolific writer, an astute businesswoman and an engaging companion, novelist Maria Edgeworth (d. #OTD 1849) was adept at observing and mimicking life. With Edgeworthstown House as her anchor, her novels examined human society through focusing on local life. www.dib.ie/biography/ed...

🥳Congratulations Alex Randles! 🏆'Best in-use paper' award at the European Semantic Web Conference Dubrovnik ‘VRTI Knowledge Graph Explorer: Adoption, Use and Impact’ co-authors Peter Crooks, Lynn Kilgallon, Lucy McKenna + Declan O’Sullivan. 😁 @adaptcentre.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

Job alert! 📢The Library of Trinity College Dublin is seeking an experienced #Archivist to work on the archive of the war correspondent and author Robert Fisk. Search "Project Archivist" on lnkd.in/epe82VKC to apply. Closing date 12:00, 27th May 2026.

Did you know you can apply for a Reader's Ticket for the National Library of Ireland by using our online application form?: https://rtickets.nli.ie 🖥️ Learn more here: https://www.nli.ie/visit/readers-ticket

Please do not send me any more condensed books. Thank you.

IGRS Top Research Tip #207: The National Library of Ireland is coming down with sources for genealogy and they have an hour long video explaining them. Click here to view on YouTube: youtu.be/avQbopnDTvA?... #nationallibraryofireland #irishgenealogy #irishfamilyhistory

We recently acquired a First World War anthology of war poetry compiled by May Tennant in memory of her son, Edward Wyndham Tennant, killed on the Western Front in 1917. Volume includes work by Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Francis Ledwidge, Edward Thomas & others. https://ow.ly/ytZO50YYSw7

#NewBlog On Sunday 18 April 1926, 630,048 households completed their census forms. In this month’s blog, DIB's Dr Angela Byrne reflects on what the release of the 1926 census, recently digitised by the National Archives of Ireland, means to historians. www.dib.ie/blog/census-... #DIBLives

Super fun interactive tool by @vicnaum allows you to see which cities are "latitude buddies" with your city. Did you know that Buenos Aires and Adelaide are latitude buddies? Or Los Angeles and Teheran? Have a play here: buff.ly/FATl1Mi

Me with Sir David Attenborough in 1969 (seen from Apollo 11). Happy Birthday Sir! We never met but your influence has been huge. #Attenborough

🚨 Job fairy 🚨 Project Archivist, the Robert and Nelofer Fisk Archive and Library This role @tcdlibrary.bsky.social will involve project management oversight of the archival description, research, and public presentation of the Robert and Nelofer Fisk Archive and Library. (1 of 5)

'the Cellars ... were feloniously broken open by a riotous and tumultuous Mob of People unknown, and a large Quantity of Oat-meal taken thereout and carried away...' Oatmeal gate in Cork, as reported in the Dublin Gazette, 25-27 June 1778.

Recommend, its gorgeous.

Love to find women involved in the building trades in nineteenth-century Dublin - Catherine Aylemore supplying fresh water to the building site of St Laurence O’Toole & Margaret T. Byrne operating the Kimmage Quarry & Lime Works!

Stunning new mural of Sir David Attenborough in Avoca, Co. Wicklow, Ireland by Kade.ie to mark the 100th birthday of this amazing man. #SpeirGorm #Attenborough

When we jump from 100,000 new eBooks per month to 300,000, we know that about two out of every three new eBooks are AI slop. May I introduce a new literary category of “pre AI classics”? This includes every single book published before November 2022 when ChatGPT was released 😉📚

A lovely piece about Jonathan Swift in the current issue of The New Yorker. Lots of references to Marsh's Library in it: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

We recently conserved and digitised a unique typescript copy of Seán O’Casey’s the Plough and the Stars from the @abbeytheatre.bsky.social archive. In this video, Crónán Ó Doibhlin, Head of Special Collections, introduces the document and gives us a closer look at the digitisation process.

#otd 4 May 1889 Dr Patrick Henry Cronin was brutally murdered in #Chicago. The murder trial was sensational & the repercussions for Irish-America & Irish Republicanism were enormous. You can read about it in my book Blood Runs Green #USHistory #IrishAmerica #irishhistory.

Gerard Hutch’s comments on immigration, particularly singling out the Somali community, are prejudiced, harmful, and straight out of the Donald Trump playbook. #Ireland #Dublin #DublinCentral #NorthInnerCity