My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

IGRS Top Research Tip #188: Here’s a rich online seam of Cork City and County Directories just waiting to be mined, dating from the 18th to the 20th centuries: shorturl.at/IiF6g

The European Correspondent shows us how different bodies define "Western Europe". Each image is displayed for 4 seconds.

2026 is the year of the what? (🐎)

A lovely way to visualize the news cycle of the year gone by from @axios. Topics (important or unimportant, over and ongoing) enter and leave the news cycle. Source: buff.ly/TcPMSjH

This map shows the percentage of the population with a valid passport across the world. International travel is a wonderful privilege.

Plea to families to discuss organ donation as donors and transplant numbers fall

I occasionally like to share these "Mercator vs Real Country Size" animations to encourage you to buy a globe. Nothing fancy - just a basic globe. It does wonders in helping you (and your kids) to understand the world. Source: buff.ly/EGdKGR3

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Born #Onthisday 1879 in #Clare Georgina "Georgie" Frost, Irish Petty Sesssions Clerk & the 1st woman to hold public office in the UK & Ireland to the dismay of Lord Wimborne, in his opinion, no woman could possibly do the job dib.ie/biography/fr...

IGRS Top Research Tip #187: The earliest records in the Belfast Burial Index date from 1869 & are drawn from three council run sites. The data includes death dates, ages, addresses, & plot numbers. For older records, scans from the registers can be purchased too: www.belfastcity.gov.uk/burialrecords

Quick note that the # of names from Irish censuses, 1766-1891, has leaped forward over the past few weeks, and now stands at a whopping 115,911. And the good news is that we have 1,000s more names to come in over the first half of 2026. Here's a cracker: virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CE...

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

IGRS Top Research Tip #185: The Linenhall Library in Belfast has a terrific collection of Irish postcards (mainly Ulster) which have been scanned, indexed & posted online. Find out what your ancestor’s local town looked like a century or more ago: www.postcardsireland.com

The third, 'Ireland’s undiscovered past: the 1800s' (featuring @gillianobrien.bsky.social) delved into the VRTI in search of lesser-known men and women to reveal new interpretations of Ireland’s recent past. youtu.be/dsuWzs00AXM?...

Thanks for following this week's #TNAConnections series with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy. The many records shared by TNA on the VRTI can be found on TNA's browse page here: virtualtreasury.ie/browse/The_N...

Just finishing up my final newsletter of the year. If you're not subscribed, here's the link: claires-newsletter-3b3509.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Looking forward to presenting this paper on my current book project @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social on Monday.

#TNAConnections The Home Office (Ireland) Correspondence held at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy — also known as the HO 100 series — letters written by high-ranking officials in Dublin Castle, addressed to the central administration in London. Jump in here: virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll...

Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it

Needless to say I’m delighted about this. It was super to work with Simon Neal, who re-catalogued more than 70 volumes; to collaborate with Eamonn Kenny @adaptcentre.bsky.social who knocked the data into shape; and to incorporate it into the Knowledge Graph we’re building, based on @dib.ie entries

#TNAConnections Another great Gold Seam you can explore on the VRTI is that of the State Papers Ireland, 1660–1715 (TNA SP 63), an assembled collection of official letters, private papers, and correspondence that is held at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy. virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/s...

#TNAConnections Have you had a chance to explore our newest Gold Seam, Parchment Conquest (1171–1307)? 150 years ago Henry Savage Sweetman published the first of five volumes that would become foundational to the study of medieval Ireland. virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/C...

This week we'll be highlighting our collaborations with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy in a series called #TNAConnections. Check out this video introducing some of the historical collections shared by TNA on the VRTI to jump in and explore Ireland's past! youtu.be/gclHIjJSBW8

Just about to start my talk for TIARA on censuses and census substitutes for Irish genealogical research. #IrishGenealogy

IGRS Top Research Tip #184: OS200 is a Digital Archive bringing together the records of the 19th-century Ordnance Survey of Ireland, historical maps, memoirs, name-books, letters and drawings, into one searchable online platform: dri.ie/os200/spotli...

There is a bit of mixup over rooms.

Look guys, if the gays can boycott the Eurovision, the very very very least you can do is boycott FIFA

We are now up to 98,000 (!) names recovered from the lost censuses of Ireland. We have found people from every county - and the detective work continues… 👀📜🔎 Search for your family between 1766 and 1891 on our Population Portal www.virtualtreasury.ie/portals/popu... Spread the word ! 😀📢

Now that's quite a #dublinghostsign reveal on the side of Cumiskey's pub at Broadstone today. Here's hoping it'll be held on to.

"The ascenders of the first line are extended and feature extra loops and ticks. The scribe plays with letters and decoration; the ascenders of the s in 'universi' and the S in 'Stafford' also contain decorative S figures. Both voids in the S of 'Stafford' contain the letter S as well."

YOU GUYS! IT'S FINALLY ONLINE! IT'S TOTALLY FREE! IT'S THE NEW YORK STATE DEATH INDEX, 1880-2017! www.newyorkdeathindex.com

Willkommen to the Department of Health! Liza help us all. 💊🥃🎭 #NewVideo #parody #RFK

The moon rising over the old parliament building outside of the office window at 3:40pm. Folks we are in truly in December.

The last 3.5 yrs a small, stubborn team has been rebuilding an independent bookshop, powered by tea, spreadsheets & a slightly excessive love of books. We’re now officially An Post Bookshop of the Year & our MD, Mick Finucane, has written a 5 a.m. blog about it chaptersbookstore.com/blogs/news/b...

Here is a godawful joke in chart form to ruin your Christmas season 🤪🎄

#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

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...

Molly Holly. Golly! Defensive festive hedging for Molly Malone

Earlier this year, VOICES' own Dr Bronagh Ann McShane (@bamcshane.bsky.social) delivered the opening keynote lecture at the annual Catholic Record Society Conference in Leeds, with her paper entitled: 'Hiding in Plain Sight: Women, Agency and Catholicism in the Early Modern Courts'. Read more here:

It was such an honour to give this lecture about @voicestcd.bsky.social A huge thank you to the amazing team at @royalhistsoc.org & to everyone who joined us.

Looking forward to speaking at the History Research Seminar at Maynooth tomorrow. I'll be talking about 'the news' and how its disruptive qualities are anything but new. The context will be the British Empire, particularly Ireland and America. Very grateful to conveners for the invitation.

If you're in ireland and have kids in primary school or soon to be, please fill out this survey on preferences re religious involvement in schools, and whether people prefer single-sex or co-ed. It takes < 1 minute and will inform future provision. #speirgorm www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

#BloodySunday took place #OTD 1920. Between 1948 and 1954, Ernie O'Malley interviewed c.400 of his revolutionary colleagues, some of them IRA men who were involved in the killings of the British intelligence officers that day. Here Matty MacDonald describes the killing of Captain G.T. Baggally. 1/2

So maybe everybody already knew about this tip - but I just accidentally hit 'Fn+F5' on my keyboard in Google Chrome and a search box popped up saying: Search AI Free Web 🙃

🔔 WANTED — Dead or Alive! (1694) A £50 reward offered for ten “Notorious Rebels and Traitors” in Kilkenny — or just bring the head. 😳 Join the VRTI Roadshow in Kilkenny on 25 Nov to see this chilling notice and explore how law, memory, and violence show up in the archives.

📣 The keynotes and a VRTI panel from last month's 'Ireland and the American Revolution' conference hosted with @tlrhub.bsky.social are now available here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#WomenInRebellion We hope you've enjoyed this series (curated by our colleague @timvrti.bsky.social)! These voices — from courtrooms, safehouses, prison cells, and family rooms — reveal women as actors, witnesses, and narrators in the 1798 Rebellion.

This Friday in Belfast, in case anyone is around. I'll be talking a lot about industrial chemicals, about the pharmaceutical industry, and about where we look for evidence of capitalism in late c20th Ireland.