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Our new #LiveAid photo exhibition is now open at the National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar! Launched by Minister Patrick O'Donovan @deptcultureirl.bsky.social & donor #BobGeldof, it features 70+ rare images from the iconic 1985 concerts. 🎶 Free entry | From Sep 24: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

Eighteenth-Century Clickbait...

Just in case there’s anyone out there who still thinks that statues are about ‘history’ rather than politics. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's #MapMonday! This map, dated 1764, shows a detailed view of Waterford city, with streets and many notable buildings and locations identified, including the City gates. It was deposited in the DRI by Waterford City and County Council. Discover more in the collection: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

If by any chance someone is selling two tickets for this, let me know! 🎟️ 🎟️

We hope you enjoyed our #FiantFriday series, curated by our fabulous Data Steward, Sadhbh Dunne! In case you missed any posts, you can find them all here in our new Fiant Friday Image Gallery: virtualtreasury.ie/image-galler...

Dutch late night TV has its take

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Dino Alert 🚨 Alarming escape from #DublinZoo spotted in the #PhoenixPark today 😳

We're excited to release the conference programme for 'Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives'. There is limited space so if you would like to attend please book a place using the link below as soon as possible. Attendance is free but booking is essential!

This Fri, 19 September: Join Paul Dryburgh, medieval collections specialist @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, for "England's first colony: medieval Ireland, 1171-1500". An overview of English intervention in Ireland and its role in the political development of the British and Irish isles.

Great to see our founder Enriqueta Rylands getting a bit of attention... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This wax impression is likely the oldest seal in the @nlireland.bsky.social, dating from the 1170s (and so only a few years after the Norman Invasion of Ireland). The legend around the circumference of the seal reads 'Seal of Richard Tirel' and it depicts Richard as a mounted knight.

3 Oct 2025 "Ireland’s undiscovered past: the 1800s" where public historian @gillianobrien.bsky.social will go in search of some lesser-known men and women in the records of @virtualtreasury.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy 4/4 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...

26 Sept 2025 "Ireland 1485–1798: colonial laboratory?" with Neil Johnston, Head of Early Modern Records at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy in partnership with @virtualtreasury.bsky.social 3/4 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...

19 Sept 2025 "England's first colony: medieval Ireland 1171–1500" with medieval collections specialist Dr Paul Dryburgh & @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @virtualtreasury.bsky.social 2/4 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...

PSA 📢 What looks like a great series of free online talks coming soon - "Finding Ireland" - by @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy in partnership with @virtualtreasury.bsky.social 1/4 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/fin...

This looks like it will be good 🙂 👀 @nlireland.bsky.social Photographic Archive on Temple Bar. Live Aid in pictures 👇👇👇

@ssnci.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social Finally got my own copies! Hard to think that this all started with a conference in June 2022! Thanks to Arlene and Cathal, all the contributors and to our top secret peer reviewers #ssnci #irishstudies #conflict #Ireland

UPCOMING EVENT Dear Friends, Join us on Saturday 4 October in the Robert Emmet Theatre (Room 2037), Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin, for our 26th Medieval Dublin symposium, organised with the support of the Department of History of TCD as part of the Dublin Festival of History [1/3]

This is a rather famous vintage map by the genius Charles Minard. It shows global emigration in 1858. We see which countries migrants left behind. HT @vintagemapstore

The database from my PhD-dissertation is finally publicly available! Detailed data from 3250 south-Swedish probate records, both urban and rural, from between 1570 and the 1860s, free for anyone to use for your own projects. www.lusem.lu.se/organisation...

Watching #TOTP 1981 and can't help wondering if Gary Numan and Sean "Just Jack" Hayes have ever been seen in the same room?

IGRS Top Research Tip #171: Tracking down descendants of your Irish relatives who moved to New York City? Here’s a helpful free online tool: The NYC Marriage Index, 1950-2017. It records 4,757,588 marriage licences issued: www.nycmarriageindex.com

John Baptist Crozier. What an excellent name for an archbishop. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cr...

You may not be interested in Maelsechlainn Mór. You may even not be interested in the magnificence that is the Annals of the Four Masters, compiled by ridiculously talented Irish Franciscans under challenging conditions. But please don’t tell me you aren’t impressed by work of this scribe 😍

Very happy to see this in print, an article I have written for History Ireland's new September/October issue called "'A Sea of Parchment' - Original Medieval Deeds in the National Library of Ireland" which provides a survey of the @nlireland.bsky.social large collection of medieval deeds.

🚨 New image gallery: Women’s Voices in the Rebellion Papers 📜 From petitions and depositions to intercepted letters and court testimonies, the National Archives of Ireland’s Rebellion Papers reveal women’s roles in 1798 in all their complexity. 🔗 virtualtreasury.ie/image-galler...

I think this has gone a bit under the radar, so a reminder: the deadline for replies for the Global Irish Survey is this Sunday: www.ireland.ie/en/irish-dia... There are separate surveys for individuals and for diaspora organisations. There's also a portal for submitting short position papers.

A final bump for this. Closing date is Sunday, 31 August

If anyone wants to listen to me talking about a despicable little brat from Newry on RTE, you can listen back to this Irish imperial lives episode below. Lambert Blair rose from being a small time trader on St Eustatius to become one of the largest slaveowners in the Dutch empire.

It's the last few weeks to catch the show I co-curated with @katymilligan.bsky.social at Dublin Castle! I’ll be giving a public lecture on Weds 3rd Sept on the lives and art of Casimir and Constance Markievicz in turn-of-the-century Dublin. Tix free but limited: www.eventbrite.ie/e/public-lec...

Cadbury's translation carefully avoiding controversy in Dublin Airport 🙂

Great crowds at yesterday's Really Useful Family History Show in PRONI, organised by @nifhs.bsky.social and sponsored by @federationfhs.bsky.social. Thanks to all who joined! @briangurrin.bsky.social @cwallacedublin.bsky.social

It just so happens that the Jubilee Room today is right next door to the room that in the Middle Ages was where those treasurers faced their judges - the Court of the Exchequer. Read more here: virtualtreasury.ie/news/dr-eliz...

Elizabethan Globalisation at work in today's #FiantFriday, which 'recites that the Flemish patentees are skilled in the planting and dressing of woad and madder, and of rape and linseed for making oil, that they have learned that some parts of the soil of Ireland are very apt for the purpose' !

Excited to have Pádraig O'Macháin & Anna Hoffmann from UCC & the McCarthy MSI project (incorporating Inks & Skins) in Marsh's working on on our manuscripts. The inks in our 14th century Processional are still looking very vibrant!

Our colleague @briangurrin.bsky.social was in Monivea last week for the launch of the 1891 census of Monivea locality. Read more about this fascinating publication on our news page: virtualtreasury.ie/news/monivea...

Excited to share a new collaboration led by Dr Eamon Darcy @maynoothuniversity.ie‬ with ‪@ria.ie @dri.ie‬ The Molyneux Papers-20 vivid county descriptions from the 1680s online: virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll... + 👀👇 ‪@rtebrainstorm.bsky.social‬ tinyurl.com/yc3b3tpa #IrishHistory 📷TCD Library

Looking for a fun weekend activity in Belfast? The FHF Really Useful Family History Show 2025 is coming to PRONI on Saturday 23 August from 10am - 4pm. @briangurrin.bsky.social and @cwallacedublin.bsky.social from our team will be presenting on the new Population Portal.

An unfortunate juxtaposition. Those arrows in the ad seem to be directly related to the death notices. @irishtimes.com

When a parish row in 1834 Ireland leads to the recovery of about a thousand men's names, which might otherwise have been lost. (Names recorded on two posters printed Spring 1834 - parish records don't start until 1838, and no surviving census records for that time/place). #Genealogy #LoveArchives

We all know about the #Gallagherbrothers from #Oasis and their tempestuous relationship, but do you know about the Wellesley brothers? #Listenback to #IrishImperialLives with our guest Síle McGuckian find out more, wherever you get your #podcasts #Ireland #India #Empire #siblingrivalry 📻👀☘️🌎

IGRS Top Research Tip #168: Search this site for records of the Irish migration to, and settlement in, Newfoundland in eastern Canada, 1750-1850. Huge numbers hailed from Ireland’s southeast, specifically counties Kilkenny, Waterford & Wexford: www.mannioncollection.ca/default.aspx

⭐ Free event: 'Talking Tripe: Cooking the Books Part II' - Tuesday, 19 August 2025 at 1.15pm at your National Library: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

It's very sad to have the news of Bríd McGrath's death. She was an indefatigable editor for @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social See our tribute to her here: www.irishmanuscripts.ie/brid-mcgrath/

@cwallacedublin.bsky.social will be joining Galway Co. Council/Galway Heritage Groups for a special event next Wednesday: "Tracing your Galway Roots: Discover Your Family History" www.eventbrite.ie/e/tracing-yo...

DRI is delighted to partner with @heritagecouncil.ie and @unioflimerick.bsky.social to preserve Ordnance Survey bench marks in the 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage' project led by @catsporter.bsky.social! Read more and learn how you can get involved: dri.ie/news/dri-par...