See also the Fianna Fáil Party centenary display in the @ucdarchives.bsky.social / UCD Special Collections Reading Room in the James Joyce Library. Appointments to visit at www.ucd.ie/archives/pla... #FiannaFail100 @ucddublin.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social @fiannafailparty.bsky.social

Kate, our Principal Archivist, will speak about the Fianna Fáil Party archives this afternoon to mark the centenary of its foundation #OTD 1926. UCDA has curated the archive since 2000. Over 300 researchers have consulted it since then to write books, articles, theses, documentaries and more...

We are sorry we will miss this (so many events in the GLAM calendar!). We will definitely visit the exhibition. Have a great evening @marshslibrary.bsky.social ...

We have a small display of items from the collection and related material on display to mark this evening's event. There are some tickets remaining! www.eventbrite.ie/e/sean-lemas...

From Monday, 18 May significant sections of James Joyce Library Level 2 will be closed to all library users. However, full self-service access to collections will remain. Please see our website for full details of the next phase of our transformation. www.ucd.ie/library/cont...

13 May 1667: James Taaffe #Franciscan & self-appointed Apostolic Visitor levies a tax on the #Irish Catholic clergy #otd (Here is his self-vindication written after his recall to #Rome from @ucdarchives.bsky.social )

This is a great opportunity to hear Ronan speak about his new book based on the Seán Lemass Interviews (1967–69, UCDA P311) conducted by businessman and hotelier, Dermot A. Ryan. All welcome. Tickets are free but must be reserved in advance: www.eventbrite.ie/e/sean-lemas... 1/2

Start registering!! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

At Ireland's EEC accession Jack Lynch quoted Tom Kettle. 1:My only counsel to Ireland is,that in order to become deeply Irish, she must first become European. 2:If this generation has for its first task the recovery of the old Ireland,it has for its second,the discovery of the new Europe. #EuropeDay

RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by German submarine U-20 #OTD 1915. @historyhub.bsky.social has a nice piece on a letter from Edward Nolan to The O’Rahilly (April 1915, UCDA P102/129) referring to the composer Thomas O’Brien Butler's forthcoming voyage on the Lusitania. historyhub.ie/letter-from-...

UCD's History Hub (@historyhub.bsky.social) is on BlueSky! You should definitely follow them...

All in UCDA P106 Papers of Sighle Humphreys and available to consult by appointment in our reading room...

The latest UCD Library #CulturalHeritage Collections blog post waxes lyrical as UCD Special Collections's Patricia Bedlow gives us a tour of books held there related to songs, poems & singing. Read the post: ucdculturalheritagecollections.com @ucdarchives.bsky.social @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social

On Thu, 14 May we will host journalist Ronan McGreevy. His recent book, 'Seán Lemass: The Lost Memoir', was based on 1967-1969 interviews conducted by businessman/hotelier Dermot A. Ryan & which are now held in @ucdarchives.bsky.social. Free tix: www.eventbrite.ie/e/sean-lemas... All are welcome!

This month will see the centenary of the foundation of the Fianna Fáil Party. The @ucdarchives.bsky.social document of the month for May (P176/23-20 A Brief Outline of the Aims and Programme of Fianna Fáil, 1926) is one of the foundational texts of the Party. See www.ucd.ie/archives/col...

1 May 1698: Legislation requiring the dispersal of religious communities of men & women in #Ireland comes into force #otd (St Clare from UCD-OFM Ms B44 in @ucdarchives.bsky.social )

Ever wondered what the Archives and Records Association can do for new professionals working with records in the UK & Ireland? Come along and find out for yourself at our next knowledge-sharing and networking event: online, Weds 20 May: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ara-sfnp-c....

The Easter Rising collapsed #OTD 1916. This letter from Ivor Churchill Guest (Viscount Wimborne), Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to General Maxwell, ‘published for the information of the troops’, congratulates Maxwell 'on the complete success of your efforts'.

De Valera introduced a new Constitution of Ireland in two broadcasts on Radio Athlone #OTD 1937. "…In my judgement a Constitution ought to do more than define the character of the legislative, executive and judicial regime…It should inspire as well as control, elicit loyalty as well as compel it…"

John Maxwell arrived in Dublin #OTD 1916, replacing Lovick Friend as Commander-in-Chief, Ireland. Photograph of the War Office document appointing Lieutenant General Sir John Maxwell, KCB, Commander-in-Chief of British Forces in Ireland (28 April 1916). 1/3

One week until our AGM! There are only a handful of tickets remaining on Eventbrite. Be sure to grab yours before they're gone. @aranewprofs.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social @dri.ie @itmadublin.bsky.social @ucdarchives.bsky.social @niamhnicharra.bsky.social @irisharchives1970.bsky.social

A privilege to be amongst the contributors & for my family to feature in this special book #TheStoryofUs. Thanks to my friend John Gibney for suggesting I put down this oft-told scéal in writing. The #1926census holds many fascinating stories, go fish. (Accepting film options to Brian's life story!)

#OTD 1916, Eóin MacNeill (Chief of Staff of the Irish Volunteers) issued a countermanding order to stop the Rising, published in the Sunday Independent. He also issued handwritten copies of the countermanding order. The one below is addressed to Eamon de Valera. #EasterRising #1916Rising 1/2

Save the date! 🗓️📌 The ISA Spring Lecture Series presents 'How to start a new archives service: experience of the CIÉ Group Archives', delivered by Kevin Forkan, Group Archivist at CIÉ. Where? Dublin City Library and Archive When? Refreshments from 6pm and lecture from 6:30pm Register below!

Come and work with us! (Well slightly adjacent to us but we are all rowing in the same boat!)

Margaret Thatcher died #OTD 2013. @ucddublin.bsky.social history graduate, Patrick Cosgrave acted as a Special Advisor to Thatcher from 1975 and 1979. A collection of his papers is available for consultation by appointment in our reading room. www.ucd.ie/archives/col...

Our April Document of the Month is online. A group of three photos taken during Eamon de Valera’s visit to Liverpool during his Anti-Partition tours of Great Britain in 1948 and 1949. www.ucd.ie/archives/col...

Beautiful illustration of the power structure in Ireland during the first half-century of independence.

Fascinating - if there's a moral its "shake out the second hand books that you buy".

John Charles McQuaid, RC Archbishop of Dublin, d #OTD 1973. Eamon de Valera, President of Ireland, pays his respects to McQuaid at the Belfield campus turning-the-sod ceremony in 1962. Michael Tierney, President of @ucddublin.bsky.social, stands beside them. (c) Irish Press, used by permission.

We don't hold an original proclamation but we do hold fragments. Read about them online in a post by Mick O’Farrell on the @ucdlibrary.bsky.social Cultural Heritage Blog. ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2021/08/19/d...

Works for the new Cultural Heritage Centre are underway on Level 1 of the James Joyce Library. While we are working to minimise disruption, readers can expect intermittent noise in the reading room. Thank you for your patience.

Read the latest #CulturalHeritage Collections blog, detailing a small collection outlining an incomplete history of ‘A’ Company, 1st battalion, Dublin Brigade, IRA, 1914–23, written by IRA Commander Peadar McNulty. Held in @ucdarchives.bsky.social ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/03/31/c...

28 Mar 1627: The first dateable manuscript penned #otd by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, #Franciscan friar, scribe, historian, lexicographer & one compiler of the Annals of the Four Masters (His signature from @ucdarchives.bsky.social )

From next Mon, 30 March the next phase of the redevelopment of the James Joyce Library will begin. See our Project page for full details & the JJL Level 1 floor plan showing the construction zone. The JJL remains open throughout the project. Thank you for your patience. www.ucd.ie/library/cont...

24 Mar ?654: d. St. Caimín, founder of Inis Celtra monastery on the #Shannon. Here is the wonderful later psalter named after him, UCD-OFM Ms A1 from @ucdarchives.bsky.social

Aois Criost, 932 Uallach, inghen Muimhnecháin, bainécces Ereann, d'écc. The Age of Christ, 932. Uallach, daughter of Muimhneachan, chief poetess of Ireland, died. #WorldPoetryDay online isos.dias.ie

We loved seeing everyone on Wednesday! Thanks to @kate-manning.bsky.social and all attendees for an insightful evening exploring the Fianna Fáil archives! @ucdarchives.bsky.social

A selection of the many Catholic church and cathedral buildings all over the world, big and small, named in honour of St Patrick! Limerick, Mayo, Montreal and London! #LáFhéilePhádraig

The Age of Christ, 431. The third year of Laeghaire. Saint Patrick was ordained bishop by the holy Pope, Celestine the First, who ordered him to go to Ireland, to preach and teach faith and piety to the Gaeidhil, and also to baptize them. UCD-OFM Ms A13 Annals of the Four Masters 1/3

Aois Criost, ceithre céd triocha a h-aon. An tres bhliadhain do Laoghaire. Ro h-oirdneadh naomh Pattraicc i n-espuccoide lasa naomh-papa an ced Celestinus, ro furail fair tocht dochum n-Ereann, do shenmóir & do proicept credmhi & crabhaidh do Gaoidhealaibh, & dia m-baitseadh idir. 1/2

Happy St. Patrick's Day!☘️ Read all about wearing green, shamrocks and other St. Patrick's Day traditions in this UCD Library #CulturalHeritage Collections blog post by @bealoideasucd.bsky.social from 2022. Read at buff.ly/jyxl0a3 @ucdarchives.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

The feast day of St Patrick is tomorrow. He shares his day with St Failtigern, a holy woman, now obscure, whose name is recorded in Félire Óenguso/Martyrology of Óengus, UCD-OFM MS A7, f 13r, C15th. H/T @elvabjohnston.bsky.social

In the latest UCD Library #CulturalHeritage blog post Polly Morton looks at the eccentric life of 19th century landowner Adolphus Cooke, taken from the Urban Folklore Project held in @bealoideasucd.bsky.social Read at ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/03/12/a... @ucdarchives.bsky.social

#DIBLives Placed in St Vincent's Industrial School, Goldenbridge at the age of 4, nurse and advocate for survivors of childhood abuse Christine Buckley (d. #OTD 2014) was assigned the number ‘89’, which replaced her name for the 13 years she was a resident in St Vincent's. www.dib.ie/biography/bu...

Last Thursday, 5 March, UCD Library had the pleasure of welcoming Jeffrey Sachs, world-renowned economist and professor at Columbia University. Sachs was at UCD to speak about sustainability and has an interest in the role and work of libraries in championing UN sustainable development goals.

Kate will give a talk to @irisharchives1970.bsky.social on 18 March, 6.00pm in The Conference Room, Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street, Dublin 2: The Archives of the Fianna Fáil Party: A Case Study of Political Party Archives and Their Role in a Democratic State' 1/2

On 16 Sept 1642 Rosa O'Doherty signed this letter. Here it is for #InternationalWomensDay , 384 years later. This is possibly a unique surviving example of a 17thC signature of a #Gaelic Irishwoman. (The letter is now in @ucdarchives.bsky.social as part of the Franciscan collection)

St Clare of Assisi (1194-1253) was the first woman to write a Rule of Life for her own monastic religious order for women, the Order of Poor Ladies. Following her death, the order was renamed in her honour as the Order of Saint Clare, commonly referred to as the Poor Clares. #InternationalWomensDay

Hannah Matthews of UCD Special Collections reflects on the art of letter writing, looking at the Curran/Laird Collection - manuscripts, books, & ephemera corresponding with significant theatrical & creative figures in Ireland in the 20th c. Read at ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/02/26/a...