Round of applause for JD Vance's kiss-of-death to Orban. Having failed in Iran and having killed the Pope, he's on quite the hot streak. Daddy Donny must be proud as punch.

Check out our 80th anniversary archive…

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

🚩A rare chance to see history unfurled.🚩 For Catalpa 150, the National Museum of Ireland will display the Catalpa Flag for 2 days only - 18–19 April 2026 at Collins Barracks. At over 4m x 3m, its size means it can’t be shown long‑term in a standard gallery. www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

#ArtemisII Feb. 1754, available at Newton's Head, Dame Street, Dublin: 'A Voyage to the Moon' by C. de Bergerac (trans. Mr Derrick)🌝🌔 incl. a connection with Gulliver's Travels! 👉 www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/DGZ-175... 👀 More www.virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll... @ollopa11.bsky.social @dias.ie

Echoes of 1956

Juxtaposition on a Dublin lamppost: Blessed Charles of Mt Argus (a healing holy man) and a “build a better you” QR code.

Excited to announce that my journal article on women printsellers in early nineteenth-century Dublin has been published in @eshsi.bsky.social It explores the gendered dynamics of the family print shop and how labour was divided in these domestic and commercial spaces.

📚 Make sure to visit our new exhibition, Ink & Innovation and come along to our curator's lunchtime talk and tour on 28th April www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

I am Irish but have American heritage - this cuts close poets.org/poem/epitaph...

#NewLives Artist Barbara Warren's paintings contain a meditative quality, occasionally incorporating dreamlike elements. Her elongated human figures – passive, reflective and largely faceless – communicated her recurring theme of loneliness and alienation. www.dib.ie/biography/wa...

For #WorldHealthDay - from Dr William Wilde's Table of Deaths, 1841 Census of Ireland. Almost 100 causes of death, some surprising to us today others, sadly, still widespread killers. @csoireland.bsky.social @who.int 👀 virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CE... 👉️ virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll...

Wishing you a blissful Bank Holiday Monday! 👒 Pictured here, a group of children, dressed in what appears to be their Sunday best, relax together in the Botanic Gardens in Belfast, Co. Antrim: https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000324685

I was on holiday in Belgrade last week and accidentally found myself at a huge student-led protest after the police - seemingly on government orders - entered the university (on flimsy pretenses) to search computers and offices. #thread

Found this to be informative video, that puts things into perspective. Via Max Fisher on Instagram www.instagram.com/reel/DWrsUcU...

IGRS Top Research Tip #201: If your ancestors came from the greater Ballymena area of Co Antrim, then you’ll be interested in these 17th to 20th century gravestone inscriptions: www.exploreyourroots.co.uk

Here's the beautiful view of our home from Artemis II... although am I the only one who thinks that when the crew return to Earth next Friday we should all dress up as apes, just for the crack?

Wonderful blog from the @notredame.bsky.social Medieval Institute on our Deeds of the Guild of Saint Anne collaboration with @rialibrary.bsky.social + @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social 😀 👉 www.virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/g... medieval.nd.edu/news-events/... @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social

It's time to repost this Easter masterpiece

Explore the extraordinary stories of injured veterans, widows and orphans of the British civil wars that have been uncovered through the work of the Civil War Petitions Project! 🔗 Use the link below to access the key findings of the project by Professor Andrew Hopper and Dr Ismini Pells

Nominative determinism in action with the Stuart Navy with a William Botswain being appointed as a boatswain in 1678

🚨 Big news: We`ve finally cracked the code! 🩺🤯 Introducing the Transkribus Doctor Model, trained to read even the squiggliest of prescription lines! #AprilFools 😉

I don't yet have a uni email (working on it), but from today I'm a research fellow at Swansea University working on the medieval and early modern fiefs of Jersey. Please send me Jersey tourist recommendations and any lost court records or copies you may have in your attics.

We’re welcoming applicants for a fully funded history PhD project researching the first 100 years of the UK's Public Record Office, ahead of its bicentenary in 2038. Find out more and apply here by Friday 8 May: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... (1/2)

The Great Railway Strike of 1911 #dublin #ireland

Explore the National Library of Ireland with Director Dr Audrey Whitty. 📅 Thursday, 9 April at 6pm: https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/directors-tour-national-library-ireland-11 🏛️ Meet in the Front Hall of National Library of Ireland, 7/8 Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

We move to Belfast for the next two #MapMonday posts. #IHTA Belfast, part I to 1840 by Raymond Gillespie and Stephen A. Royle was originally published by the @ria.ie in 2003. 1/7

Are you an archivist, librarian, or museum worker who does outreach/advocacy work? And would you be willing to be interviewed by a student? I have a student struggling to find someone to interview (because we are all up to our necks in it!). So if you have the time/space/interest, lmk

“This morning, the Israeli Police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land…from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, as they made their way to celebrate the Palm Sunday Mass.”

Introducing the IGRS’ new short video, now available to view free on our website. www.irishancestors.ie Click on > to left of V for Vimeo sign bottom right to get a row of symbols, includig the one for expanding to full screen.

The clocks going forward today made us wonder - what's the earliest reference to a clock in the VRTI? 🤔🕰️ How about this from 1336 - in the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland! A clock-maker on St Patrick's Street, Dublin 😀 www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/RSAI-Al...

52 years ago on March 27, 1974, 'The Rockford Files" starring James Garner premiered as a TV movie on NBC.

#DIBLives Born #OTD 1839 in Glenavy, Co Antrim, John Ballance was elected prime minister of New Zealand in 1891. He strongly opposed landed interests, religious intervention in education & political life, and in 1893 introduced a bill to allow adult women to vote. www.dib.ie/biography/ba...

📣Out now on #firstview Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social @ucc.ie on 'Newspapers as Surrogate Archives: A Case Study of the Early Twentieth-Century Dublin City Coroner’s Court' #Archives #Newspapers #Press #Ireland #Legal #History 20thc📰🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🙂📘 Great turnout this pm for the launch of Síle McGuckian's book Worse than War: Anglesey and Ireland 1828-33. So much more than 'pre-Famine Ireland' 👍.

This was fascinating! I am working on provenance research at the moment and struggling because items that found their way into collections abroad are catalogued inaccurately. Former owners who would be well-known by Irish cataloguers don't ring bells for UK and American cataloguers!

In honour of #WorldTuberculosisDay read all about Dr Noel Browne, who lost his father, mother and older brother to TB, and who spent months in hospital suffering from the disease. As Minister for Health he launched a campaign to eradicate TB from Ireland. www.dib.ie/biography/br...

IGRS Top Research Tip #199: Do you have ancestors who served in the Coastguard in Ireland? This is a list of Coastguard stations and their locations operating in Ireland in the years 1827 to 1848: www.swilson.info/m/cgstat1845...

Are you studying, researching or teaching histories of forests and the environment? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

International Day for Digital Learning. Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) to learn more about digital histories. It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

Charles II’s Irish Great Seal from 1673. For the day that’s in it. TNA C 106/153

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Happy St Patrick’s Day from #Ireland where the only Irish snakes are in museum jars. These are escaped pets. Full story in the link #StPatricksDay www.museum.ie/en-ie/collec...

On St Patrick's Day. Ladybird books were published in many different languages - including Irish (Artists: Eric Winter and Robert Lumley)

Oscars looks 🤝 medieval manuscripts Some of these outfits felt suspiciously familiar, so we went digging in the collections… #MedievalMonday Shelfmarks: MS. Bodl. 265 fols. 58r, 60r; MS. Douce 364, fol. 61v; MS. Douce 195, fol. 003r

Congratulations Jessie Buckley on her big win! Great to see a focus on 17th century women. Check out this article on Irish women alive during the time of Hamnet 💚 @clodaghfinn.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tcdlibrary.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tlrhub.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social

Plans for #SaintPatricksDay 1788 at Dublin Castle. Cotillons + Country Dances, no Minuets. Ladies - Irish-made dresses please, but no hoops. (What is 'full dress' for the gentlemen? 🤔🙂) www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/DGZ-178... 📷 Oireachtas Library / @nationalgalleryofireland ‪@opwireland.bsky.social

Imagine if someone did the equivalent to damage car tires. Unfortunately, it’s in a cycling lane, so most people don’t care.