#NewLives 'The voice of a saint trapped in a glass harp.’ From an early age, Dolores O’Riordan used her lyrics and songwriting to reflect and process her emotions; her words provided the framework for the band, but her voice that gave The Cranberries their unique sound. www.dib.ie/biography/or...

The incredible 'Feminist Art Lives' podcast was recently chosen as a 'pick of the week' in @theguardian.com. Says Hannah J Davies: "Drawn from vast research project Feminist Art Making Histories, this impressive series is stuffed full of influential artistic voices from the 70s, 80s and 90s."

We look forward to taking part in National Heritage Week on 19th August at 11am with Associate Professor Catherine Porter at @unioflimerick.bsky.social delivering a webinar that explores the 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage' digital archive. Read more: www.heritageweek.ie/event-listin...

🎉 Our @dpasshconf2026.bsky.social round-up is now live! Hosted by @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social and PRONI, the conference explored play as praxis in digital preservation, bringing together 100+ delegates from around the world. Thanks to all who contributed! Find out more: dri.ie/news/dpassh-...

Thank you to our colleagues at @mu-ssi.bsky.social for hosting us last week for our DRI staff seminar on #Archives, #AI, #EDI! We were treated to a fascinating #Biodiversity tour of @maynoothuniversity.ie's #GreenCampus, led by Dr Jim Carolan, and got to spend time with @mulibrarycat.bsky.social 🐈‍⬛

We're delighted to welcome @westmeathlibraries.bsky.social as the newest member of DRI! 🎉 Preserving centuries of Westmeath's history from Grand Juries to prison caricatures, their collections will be an invaluable resource for both researchers and the public. Find out more: dri.ie/news/new-dri...

Our #Repository #training series concludes today with a live help session @ 11:00am. Bring your questions and concerns, or join just to listen in on the experiences of others creating and managing collections in the DRI repository. Register at dri.ie/events/dri-m...

We continue our #Repository #training series today @ 11:00am with batch ingest training. DRI Training Manager and Digital Archivist Noelia Romero will show you how to prepare spreadsheets to can quickly and easily import into the DRI repository. Register at dri.ie/events/dri-b...

What do employers really expect from Research Data Stewards? New study of 43 Data Steward job descriptions across 13 European countries, undertaken by Ruoxin Liu. Key findings and full report: lnkd.in/gvPEVgDw #DataStewardship #FAIRData #OpenScience #ResearchDataManagement #DataGovernance

Thanks to our friends at the @nlireland.bsky.social for writing a lovely review of @dpasshconf2026.bsky.social that unpacks the NLI contributions to the event - as well as highlighting some papers and panels of interest! #DPASSH2026 Find out more: dri.ie/news/confere...

Discover the Museum after hours at #DublinByDusk for Evening Discovery Tours. Join us and explore remarkable objects, including the iconic Tara Brooch. 📍National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street 📅 Thursday, 30 July 🕔 Tours: 17:00 & 18:30 www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/D... #TaraBrooch #Archaeology

Our #Repository ingest training series continues today @ 11:00am with a session on creating and managing collections. If you missed yesterday's introductory training, you can find resources on the DRI Training Resources page to review: dri.ie/dri-training.... Register at dri.ie/events/dri-s...

Our July newsletter is out now! We're pleased to share news of DRI #DataReuse initiatives, our #HeritageWeek event, and lots of upcoming #DigiPres training opportunities! Visit our website to read the latest issue and subscribe dri.ie/dri-friends-... #DigiPresNews

Join DRI Training Manager and Digital Archivist Noelia Romero today @ 11:00am for the first in a series of #Repository #training sessions, designed to help DRI members create, upload and publish collections and datasets. Register at dri.ie/events/dri-i...

We're thrilled to publish a reflective blog on @dpasshconf2026.bsky.social from Michael Stanley, an archaeologist working in the Archaeology and Heritage section of Transport Infrastructure Ireland. Here, Michael details his experience of Day 1 of the event. Find out more: dri.ie/news/reflect...

New on the DRI blog📖✨ Discover the story behind the MACMORRIS collection, a rich digital resource that maps the people, texts, and networks that shaped early modern Ireland. Read more: dri.ie/news/collect... #DigitalHumanities #EarlyModernIreland #Mapping

☕ All are welcome to join DRI for our virtual Coffee Morning on 29 July 2026 at 11am! Writer & DAM Librarian Jessie McCarty will introduce Folk Data - an inclusive approach to metadata + taxonomy that centres people, communities + ethical information architecture. Register: dri.ie/events/dri-c...

Happy #WorldChocolateDay! This photograph from 1974 shows female factory workers processing large quantities of chocolate mallows. Discover more #CommercialHistory in the Jacob's Biscuit Factory Archive deposited in the DRI repository by @dclareadingroom.bsky.social doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

#MapMonday! These maps of Bray can be discovered in the Irish Historic Towns Atlas collection deposited in the DRI repository by our colleagues @ihtaria.bsky.social Left: Map of Bray, based on #OrdnanceSurvey 1865 Right: Map of Bray, based on #OS 1997 doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

To mark July's @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social theme #EYAAiltireacht | #EYAArchitecture, we're spotlighting these wonderful eighteenth-century chimneypiece designs from the Darley Collection, deposited in the DRI Repository by our colleagues @rialibrary.bsky.social doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

While we catch our breath after a fantastic #DPASSH2026, we would like to again extend thanks to our partners at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social and Public Record Office of Northern Ireland - and to our sponsors, panelists, presenters and attendees - for two engaging days of all things #digipres!

#DIBLives #OTD 1922 a huge explosion at the Public Records Office in the Four Courts destroyed centuries of Irish administrative, legal & genealogical records. @virtualtreasury.bsky.social has spent years recreating many of these records & made them freely available to the public. virtualtreasury.ie

The Europeana Writers' Room is a monthly creative writing workshop which uses illustrations and imagery from digitised collections to inspire participants to write. Join this Wednesday and explore 'light and dark' with Ivana Šalinović from the Croatian Storytelling Society: bit.ly/3SRchea

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Taking place on the first Wednesday of each month, the Writers' Room offers you a dedicated hour for writing and creativity.

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Day 2 of #DPASSH2026 kicks off at 10:00am! Are you ready for the #workshops, #games and #exhibitions - not to mention a closing panel on representing and preserving digital language materials at the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen's University Belfast. Let's go #play!

We're pleased to share the winners of the DRI Research Reuse Reward on the DRI website and at #DPASSH2026. Our award recognises data reuse as an important outcome of digital preservation work. Read more at: dri.ie/news/researc...

Welcome to #DPASSH2026! It's finally here! Our 2 day conference looks at #DigitalPreservation in the #AHSS disciplines through the lens of #play, exploring games as essential tools for knowledge sharing, collaboration and inclusion. It should be an exciting couple of days!

Pleased to be included in the lineup here by the @ria.ie and looking forward to working again with @ullibrary.bsky.social, @unioflimerick.bsky.social and the @dri.ie over the coming months. @ulresearch.bsky.social , #FAHSS, #LoveIrishResearch

Royal Irish Academy@ria.ie · last mo.

The RIA is delighted to announce that four projects will be supported under the Nowlan Digitisation grant scheme for 2026. Read more about the projects on the RIA website: www.ria.ie/2026/06/02/f...

It’s official! Follow this account for updates on our project to scan part of the the CUCAP collections at @camunigeography.bsky.social with @zenobiewan.bsky.social @katharinabecker.bsky.social and Dr Tom Spencer. The collections will be available through @camdigib.bsky.social and @dri.ie

Royal Irish Academy@ria.ie · last mo.

The RIA is delighted to announce that four projects will be supported under the Nowlan Digitisation grant scheme for 2026. Read more about the projects on the RIA website: www.ria.ie/2026/06/02/f...

Interested in discussing the challenges around languages held in #DigitalRepositories? Our closing panel at #DPASSH2026 considers languages as bearers of culture, memory and identity-hear from Frank Ferguson, Jaione Landabera Taberna, @kathryncassidy.bsky.social, Bernadette O'Rourke & Ife Thompson.

We're #playing games at #DPASSH2026 in some of our workshop slots! @preservetogether.bsky.social will present The Digital Preservation Innovation Game, while Rachel Appel and Pax Crowley walk you through Preservation and Perils: A Gamified Approach to Understanding Trustworthy Digital Repositories.