📣 We're hiring: Conservator (AKII) 2-year fixed-term contract Join the National Library of Ireland to help conserve nationally significant collections, including parchment, manuscripts and early printed works relating to the Normans in Ireland. ⭐ Info + #apply by 31 July: https://ow.ly/X9Op50ZkZKj

🚨New Blog Alert🚨 As Ireland currently holds the Presidency of the Council of the EU, VOICES researchers Felix Vanden Borre and Dr Claire McNulty shed light on the women in early modern Ireland with continental connections ranging from Belgium to Tuscany who feature in the Funeral Entries. Read more:

Our Maddock Fellowships for 2026-7 are still open until Thursday 30th July!

#DIBLives 'Tell them I have done my duty.' General of Antrim & Commander-in-Chief of the United Irish army of the north, Henry Joy McCracken was court-martialled & sentenced to death. He was executed #OTD 1798 having refused to name other leaders in exchange for clemency. www.dib.ie/biography/mc...

📢 Good news! The deadline to #apply for our Research Studentship has been extended until Friday, 24 July 2026, at 3pm. The NLI, in association with the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences, are currently inviting applications for the Research Studentship: ow.ly/lwfe50ZnFu0

It's #ArchiveDiaspora Day! 📜🌎 Today we celebrate the stories of the Irish people & the archival collections that document journeys of migration, identity, belonging & home. Share your records today using #ArchiveDiaspora and tag us so we can help showcase the remarkable collections you hold!

We're hiring a #ProjectManager to lead a multi-year, cross-institutional programme spanning cultural programming, professional development, research, and policy. ⭐ More info + #apply: https://www.nli.ie/about-us/working-national-library-ireland#ProjectManager#apply📅 Closing date: 3pm, 24 July 2026. #Jobfairy

📢 Applications are open for the National Library of Ireland’s 2026–2027 Studentships! ⭐ Library ⭐ Archival ⭐ Research A great opportunity to gain hands-on experience and develop your career. Learn more, and apply by 3pm, 17 July 2026: https://www.nli.ie/about-us/working-national-library-ireland

IGRS Top Research Tip #215: A wonderful way to explore Ireland's rich local heritage is through the Irish Community Archive Network website. It brings together community archives from across the island, making thousands of stories and photographs easy to discover: www.ouririshheritage.org

📣 We're hiring: Conservator (AKII) 2-year fixed-term contract Join the National Library of Ireland to help conserve nationally significant collections, including parchment, manuscripts and early printed works relating to the Normans in Ireland. ⭐ Info + #apply by 31 July: https://ow.ly/X9Op50ZkZKj

Exciting news - our online platform of over 650,000 metadata records of UK doctoral theses (EThOS) is now available again  Find out more about EThOS and how to use it on our website link.bl.uk/kxk

#DIBLives “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.” “Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.” Philosopher and politician Edmund Burke died #OTD 1797. www.dib.ie/biography/bu...

A great week for @virtualtreasury.bsky.social and VOICES! Over half a million Irish records now freely available incl thousands more early modern women 🎉 @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social www.irishcentral.com/roots/histor...

I love "The hierarchy of disagreement". We collectively need to learn how to argue and disagree in a kinder, more efficient way. The whole article is worth reading. If you are pressed for time just read the pyramid and laugh at the lowest stage. Source: buff.ly/2tU4hgx

IGRS Top Research Tip #214: Has your research stalled in the 18th century? Checkout the Virtual Record Treasury’s online 1766 Religious Census database with new interactive map feature. It covers all known surviving census data from this vital resource: kg.virtualtreasury.ie/collection-m...

#IrishHistory #IrishLaw #IrishStatutes #ILD Good news for those working on Irish history from 1692 to 1800. The Irish Legislation Database is back online at a new address. resources.qub.ac.uk/ild/ Much thanks to Prof David Hayton. Please share widely.

#DIBLives '[I will]...strain every nerve to effectuate a modification of the law of Poynings.' A superb orator and a determined advocate of constitutional and political rights, Henry Grattan (b. #OTD 1746) gave his name to the parliamentary period 1782-1800. www.dib.ie/biography/gr...

Brilliant. How real trolling is done.

📢 We've just released Text Titan II, our most accurate general-purpose model yet. It reduces transcription errors by ~47% compared to Text Titan I on our internal benchmark, with the biggest gains on handwritten documents! Find out more and try Text Titan II: www.transkribus.org/blog/introdu...

The NLI travelling exhibition Strangers to Citizens opens this week at Clare Libraries as part of #Ireland2026EU 🇮🇪🇪🇺 Explore the story of the Irish in Continental Europe through images from the National Library's collections. 📍Ennis (1–22 Jul) 📍Scariff (23 Jul–5 Aug) 📍Shannon (6–26 Aug) Free entry

This was a lot of fun. Really enjoyed the discussion at the end. Many thanks to the organisers and the National Archives UK. Do go and see the exhibition. There are some incredible treasures on display. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/exh...

Beyond excited to see the Cork Constitution (1825-79) is up on #IrishNewspaperArchives. For #Cork history, this is huge - the Cork Examiner should be read alongside its rival and sparring partner, the Constitution. Both religious & political traditions should be considered together #SpéirGhorm

Congratulations Elizabeth 😀🎉

Thrilled to hear this afternoon that my article on medieval women interacting with English government in Ireland is now live at Speculum! It was all due to the resources @virtualtreasury.bsky.social 50 people can access it for free here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/VCYQU...

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

IGRS Top Research Tip #213: Are you seeking pre-1800 sources for Irish genealogy? This free video talk by former PRONI archivist, Valerie Adams, shines a light on a myriad such underused resources: www.irishancestors.ie/lesser-known...

A new coauthored article just out on open access. Written with Finola O’Kane and Chris Nikkel, it looks at the ways that Irish families with connections to enslavement elide, remember, or forget those connections www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The National Library of Ireland invites everyone — wherever you are — to explore #Ireland from the comfort of home with our photographic series #AroundtheIsland. Take a journey through the NLI’s collections & connect with your ancestral counties by exploring our videos: https://ow.ly/TsAU50Zfytf

#DIBLives Finally, to mark #Pride2026 we are featuring celebrated musician and activist Philip Chevron of The Pogues and The Radiators, writer of the heartfelt 'Under Clery's clock' about his yearning for love as a gay man in 1980s Dublin. www.dib.ie/biography/ch...

We're pleased to share the winners of the DRI Research Reuse Reward on the DRI website and at #DPASSH2026. Our award recognises data reuse as an important outcome of digital preservation work. Read more at: dri.ie/news/researc...

On this day, 25/06/1957, Irish revolutionary women Elizabeth O'Farrell died. She was walking on Bray seafront with her life long partner and fellow revolutionary Julia Grenan. She had a sudden heart attack and died in Julia’s arms. They are buried together in Glasnevin cemetery #irishqueerhistories

(Art) library folks: after a very happy time in NCAD, I am moving on to a new position and my post is now advertised. A great opportunity to work with a fantastic collection, and will suit someone with a deep interest in art & design, + teaching, learning and research 📚🎨 www.rezoomo.com/job/99517/

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

Hilarious chart shows who's suing whom in AI. Source: buff.ly/lkHKHU3

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

The RIA is delighted to announce that four projects will be supported under the Nowlan Digitisation grant scheme for 2026. Read more about the projects on the RIA website: www.ria.ie/2026/06/02/f...

#Poetry #Painting #Summer It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

I miss the old door.

Dig into the story of the excavation at Viking Woodstown in today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter. The newsletter also has a link to an upcoming free webinar this Thursday to hear more about the discoveries, and how Woodstown is helping to cast new light on the Vikings in Ireland.

#DIBLives To celebrate #Pride 2026, this week we are featuring members of Ireland's LBGTQ+ community. In the 18th century Lady Eleanor Butler & diarist Sarah Ponsonby, better known as the 'Ladies of Llangollen' lived together as 'romantic friends' or 'damned Saphists'. www.dib.ie/biography/bu...

As we continue our #MapMonday, we are in the west and remain in County Galway for Tuam. It was originally published by @ria.ie as no. 20 in the #IHTA series by J.A. Claffey in 2009. 1/5

The IGRS will publish the first online instalment of the Michael Leader Parish Register Transcripts on 4 July 2026, making available a unique body of Irish genealogical research compiled over several decades by former IGRS Vice-President Michael Leader: www.irishancestors.ie/michael-lead...

every two words is an entire Dickens novel

This cool animated maps shows how the London Tube map evolved over the past 163 years, using real geography rather than the stylised Tube map that you are familiar with. Source: buff.ly/aEXNFHF

An Article from The Irish Arts Review 1986 on the restoration of the Dining Hall, Trinity College, Dublin.

Happy Father's Day 🖤

Ever thought of seeking out old aerial photographs for your ancestral research? Here ye go…

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