Fascinating work here by @ucddublin.bsky.social and @rialibrary.bsky.social 👍 Prompted us to check this will from 1790, shared by @rcpi.bsky.social Heritage Centre. www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/RCPI-TP... (See ALT for links to many more mentions of tontines 🧐)

The RIA has an exciting lineup of free public lectures, panel discussions and cultural events you won’t want to miss. Whether you’re passionate about science, the humanities or Ireland’s heritage, there’s something on the calendar for everyone Find out all the events at https://www.ria.ie/events/

Read our new blog - Finances and Funerals: The Digital Archive of Irish Tontines! Dr Andrew McDiarmid @ucddublin.bsky.social is our guest contributor. His project 'Forgotten Funding' is funded by a @researchireland.ie Pathways Fellowship. www.ria.ie/blog/finance...

Today's Trinity College 22,000-strong student body is roughly comparable to, or could exceed, the entire population of Dublin City at the time Trinity opened in 1592. 🗺️ John Speed's map of Dublin City published in 1611. Trinity College (12 on the map). #Dublin #History

I'll count this hilarious @bergerandwyse cartoon as a map 😉 🗺️ 🐦️

This made me laugh. Well done, @twonkscomics!

An improved Irish Townland and Historical Map Viewer with new features is available online. Please note: the old URL is no longer functional. Explore the new viewer: experience.arcgis.com/experience/b...

Bluesky debut for the most clever thing I ever thought of, and which I now share every year on #PancakeDay.

Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades eos.org/articles/res...

The London Irish Explore the Irish presence in London with Jill Williams, Claire Bradley and Ian Porter. Morning: East London walk or Irish ancestry advice Afternoon (in person or online): talks on the London Irish & key records 14 Mar 2026 | London & Online Book

A Valentine's poem for you, written by Valentine Thomas in April 1598 with coal on the walls of his Marshalsea prison cell, and noted down in his treason record (TNA KB 8/54), about trying (and failing) to assassinate Elizabeth I [poem in next post]

One of several scholarships for Palestinian students available at the University of Liverpool. This one is for the MRes in Irish Studies. Please share to relevant circles. www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

IGRS Top Research Tip #194: Did your ancestor serve in the Irish police? This link lists all the stations across Ireland for the Royal Irish Constabulary (to 1922) and the Dublin Metropolitan Police (to 1924): www.swilson.info/m/ricdmp1890...

Ah! the romance of the middle ages 💘 St Valentine's Day 1450: John de la Hyde seized Ballyburley, Co. Offaly, from Geoffrey, Bishop of Kildare. King Henry VI ordered John to give it back. Offaly romantic, no? www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/PROI-PU... @offalyhistory.bsky.social

Oscar Wilde’s father, a famous medical doctor, once visited Tipperary town and was horrified by what he found.  To find out more read 'The Famine in South Tipperary (3)' in THJ (1998) tipperarystudies.ie/tipperary-hi...

Next Friday, I will be speaking at the Ó Cléirigh seminar on my forthcoming article in the Proceedings of the RIA, which analyses surviving letters sent by Irish kings and provides a full edition and translation of them. All are welcome! @historytcd.bsky.social

We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Librarian in Marsh's Library. This will be a great position for an early-career librarian. Further details at: marshlibrary.ie/assistant-li...

Blood Runs Green is a bargain $9.99 on the #Chicago University Press website. If you like true crime, #murder, Irish republicanism, #spies, Chicago & Irish #history it should be right up your street. #truecrime

Call for papers - growing up in the early modern world!

Light and dark on the Liffey.

Honoured to receive an award on behalf of our team from our Equality Office for the contribution our colonial legacies project has made to EDI initiatives in college as part of a wonderful celebration this morning. @historytcd.bsky.social

Dublin City Council has published the pre‑planning design for #GrowCollegeGreen. The updated design creates a safer, greener&more accessible public space–shaped by thousands of submissions and extensive engagement since 2024. Open until 11 March 2026. Have your say→ engage.dublincity.ie

This is nice! 👇 🧐😀 I searched for 'Dublin' - many hits incl: Dublin June 18 [1917] Hello Kit, here I am down town in a Soldiers Club, going to get my shots taken today, everything is quiet here, the ruins on Sackville Street are fierce, hope you are having a bonne time. Well au revoir Norm

Eight centuries later — after another stretch of wild Irish weather — the line feels very current. Join us at our Limerick Roadshow tomorrow evening: 🕡 6:30pm – 8:30pm 📍 The People’s Museum of Limerick, 2 Pery Square, V94 HF53 Free to attend — booking essential. bit.ly/4r0Ej2M

Better late than never. Census names in VRTI for end January, 2026 - a whopping 139,102, incl. >50,000 names from 1766 Religious Census of Ireland. Cork leads the way with 16k+ names from 1766 and 1821-1851. Next big mark is 150,000k Click for sample: virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CE...

Lyin’ and Spinnin’: My Apocalyptic Valentine 😬💘

We’re delighted to announce that our latest exhibition, Character is Better than Wealth: the enduring legacy of Michael Davitt, is now open @tcddublin.bsky.social In this short introductory video, Curator Ciara Daly explores the life, values, and impact of Michael Davitt. #VirtualTrinityLibrary

I came out of retirement to write this story, because what the actual what ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Ok look, search index for buildings now has 1000 pages of results. #30yearsofarchiseek

It's #MapMonday! This map, created in 1752, is a plan of Flint's Croft set in 25 lettered lots on either side of Harry Street, Dublin. From the Dublin City Surveyors Maps collection, which documents the development of the Dublin City Estate within the original walled city: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

A wedding group rich in detail, from fine hats to smartly tailored jackets. According to our records, this photograph was commissioned by Mr William Murray of Passage East and was taken #OnThisDay, 7 February 1923. https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000593651#OnThisDay

6 FEB: @msp-archive.bsky.social will be releasing over 2,580 new files in the public domain. The files relate to 1,089 individuals/veterans who served during the Irish Revolution (1916-1923). This release brings the total nominal entries on our database to 22,032. share.google/fodhyupD9nE7...

IGRS Top Research Tip #193: There are around 2 million gravestone transcriptions (many with photos) from all across Ireland on the Findagrave website. Have you used it, it’s free: www.findagrave.com

On 30 June 1642 Briggett Drewie recounted her experience of the 1641 rebellion. At the hands of the rebels, she was left a pregnant widow: ‘being left in that miserable state & predicament great with chyld’. Learn more about her story and others here: voicesproject.ie/impact/blog-...

I'll be talking about my new book project next Tuesday (10 February) in a webinar for the Welsh Centre for International Affairs. All welcome! More details in the link. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-u...

Brigid Spotlight #2: Bridget Bermingham whose mother died of smallpox on Merchants Quay Dublin 1685 from the @nlireland.bsky.social Funeral Entries @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social

For any of you interested in early modern beer, Dublin Castle, or just history and food in general, this series of talks and tastings I have helped put together might be of interest 🍻🧐 #History #Heritage #Food #Beer #SpeirGorm www.eventbrite.com/cc/brewing-p...

Our @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social Spring Lecture Series is live. Theme is 'Work and working in 19th & 20th century #Dublin' - please RT. Speakers @antoniahart.bsky.social @dublincity.bsky.social @drdeefoley.bsky.social & Conor Dodd formerly Glasnevin.

If you want to escape from thinking about current crisis by thinking about past crises 🤔, Paul Dryburgh and I are giving a @ihr.bsky.social seminar paper on Friday 13 February. Come for embezzlement scandals, stay for Paul's thoughts on the Mortimer family. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

St Brigid in the landscape of Irish history. Just four of many mentions of abbeys dedicated to St Brigid from our partner's collections. A land dispute in 1313, surrenders under Henry VIII, and a land grant c. 1619. #Brigid #Wexford #Meath #Tipperary See ALT text for details.

tag yourself i’m I AM MANOEUVRING WITH DIFFICULTY

The VOICES team is delighted to be offering an MPhil module on ‘The Lived Experiences of Women in Early Modern Ireland’, based on our ERC VOICES project in TCD again this term! @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Bridgett, Briggett, Brigid, Brigitt, Brigitte: these are a few of the Brigids who lived in C17th Ireland. They were pregnant widows, rebels who stole sheep, and daughters who lost mothers to smallpox. As we celebrate St Brigid’s Day, here are some of their stories. voicesproject.ie/impact/blog-...

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...

It's my last day on @virtualtreasury.bsky.social so please indulge me being sentimental about the last five years working with the amazing team. They generously welcomed me into the fold of Irish historians and were enormous fun as we tackled the mammoth task of archival reconstruction.

Today our Fáilte Isteach team and learners made Saint Brigid’s Crosses, sending blessings of health from our home at Unit 18 to yours, and opening the door a little to let spring in 🌱

📣 We're #hiring: #DigitalArchivist Libraries don’t just preserve the past, they safeguard the digital present; the NLI is delighted to be accepting applications for the position of Digital Archivist. 🖥️ ⭐ Info & apply: www.nli.ie/about-us/wor... 📆 #Apply by: 13 February 2026 at 3pm

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

116,090 days ago a Limerick land transaction became Memorial No. 1 in the brand-new Registry of Deeds! 🧐 virtualtreasury.ie/hidden-stori... Want to see more? 👉 Come along on Wed 11 Feb to the Limerick Roadshow Admission free bit.ly/4r0Ej2M @tailteeireann.bsky.social @limericklive.bsky.social