Our Document of the Month is now online... Items concerning W.B. Yeats from 1935 and 1939. www.ucd.ie/archives/col...

Join @bealoideasucd.bsky.social & UCD Access & Lifelong Learning during National Heritage Week for a joint presentation on the preparation of the National Folklore Collection for relocation to UCD James Joyce Library. 📆Wed, 19 Aug 10.30-11.30am Details & book at www.heritageweek.ie/event-listin...

If anyone is considering editing something from our collections, we will happily supply a digital copy at no cost. Please contact Kate (archives at ucd dot ie).

Irish Manuscripts Commission@irishmanuscripts.bsky.social · 2w ago

Closing date: Wed 29 July The IMC student prize of €1,000 is awarded to a postgraduate student for editing a short historical document, which will also be considered for publication in Analecta Hibernica. Learn more at: irishmanuscripts.ie/imc-student-prize-2026/

The UNHCR archives in Geneva are at risk; reading room already closed - and there's a much broader 'humanitarian archive emergency' ongoing with aid budget cuts. www.aretenews.com/unhcr-refuge...

As aid funds shrink, archivists warn of risks to the humanitarian record

UNHCR's archives are a test case for humanitarians struggling to preserve institutional memory in an era of retrenchment.

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UCD Archive & Records Management MA students Kat Guiry & Lydia Flanagan put coursework into practice preparing @bealoideasucd.bsky.social for a big move. Read about their experiences at ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/07/16/i... Thank you @heritagecouncil.ie for this internship funding!

We are very sad to learn about the death of Prof. Richard Cox, a distinguished member of our profession, an influential teacher, and theorist. He made several visits to Ireland, and was Kate's mentor. Our deepest condolences to his family. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

Richard James Cox

Richard James Cox on July 11, 2026 Please go to the Devlin Funeral Home website for service information

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Our Document of the Month is now online: a photograph of the first mobile library in Ireland which was set up by Feargus Murphy, librarian in Lismore, Co. Waterford. www.ucd.ie/archives/col...

#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

Almost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. The release of the records will cover seven centuries of Irish history and will make over half a million documents free and permanently available to the public

Almost 200,000 Irish historical records released online

Almost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland.

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#OTD 1922 the Record Treasury within the Four Courts was destroyed. Ernie O’Malley, garrisoned inside, later wrote in The Singing Flame: 'The yard was littered with chunks of masonry and smouldering records; pieces of white paper were gyrating in the upper air like seagulls.'

We announced recently the transfer of an important 17th c. Irish Franciscan manuscript to @ucdarchives.bsky.social Read about the transfer of the manuscript & its digitisation, part of a partnership with the Irish Franciscans going back to 1997. ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/06/23/1...

Delighted to see another UCD–OFM manuscript now available on Irish Script On Screen 📖

UCD Archives@ucdarchives.bsky.social · 2mo ago

2 June marked the official transfer of UCD-OFM Ms F1, Vitae Sanctorum Ex Codice Innisensi, from the Irish Franciscans to UCDA. Containing medieval Latin lives of Irish saints, this important C17th century manuscript is now availble to consult @dias-isos.bsky.social: www.isos.dias.ie/UCD/UCD_MS_F...

2 June marked the official transfer of UCD-OFM Ms F1, Vitae Sanctorum Ex Codice Innisensi, from the Irish Franciscans to UCDA. Containing medieval Latin lives of Irish saints, this important C17th century manuscript is now availble to consult @dias-isos.bsky.social: www.isos.dias.ie/UCD/UCD_MS_F...

This looks like essential reading. Congratulations Ciara!

Ciara Breathnach@ciarab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So this was a nice surprise to wake up to, thanks to all Cambridge University Press & Assessment and series editor @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social Delighted that it is Open Access doi.org/10.1017/9781... @researchireland.ie @ucc.ie

Calling all curators, librarians, and archivists who work with religious objects or collections associated with prayer! The Prayticipate COST Action will hold a networking event in Limerick on the 1-2 October. Funding available! prayticipate.eu/activities/p...

Prayer on Display – Limerick (IRE): 1-2 October 2026 – PRAYTICIPATE – COST Action CA23143

The Antrim Cross, 9th century AD, Copper alloy, bronze, glass enamel, Hunt Museum Collection, HCA 627 Call for expressions of interest. Meeting theme: Prayer on

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Arrived in a sunny Belfast for our Archiving Conflict and Reconciliation workshop in PRONI tomorrow.

Colmcille died #OTD 592 "Dallan Forgaill composed this on the death of Colum Cille: Like the cure of a physician without light, like the separation of marrow from the bone, Like a song to a harp without the Ceis, are we after being deprived of our noble." 1/2

On his feast day #otd 9 June (d. 597) the amazing 16th century binding of Ms A8 in @ucdarchives.bsky.social which is Maghnus Ó Domhnaill’s Beatha Colaim Chille or Life of St. Columba or Colmcille patron of #Derry, #Iona & #Ireland.

Our document of the month is now online. Douglas Hyde, President of Ireland, at Dalymount Park meeting the players at a friendly match, Ireland v Poland, 1938. www.ucd.ie/archives/col...

Great to finally see this manuscript up online. Thanks so much to Anne Marie in ISOS, @kate-manning.bsky.social & UCD Archives, Professor Mícheál Mac Craith OFM, and all the Franciscans who preserved this ms over the centuries. Looking forward to researching these texts further! #hagiographyiscool

Irish Script On Screen (www.isos.dias.ie)@dias-isos.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/2📜✨ New on ISOS: UCD Archives@ucdarchives.bsky.social MS F 1, 17th c., contains medieval Latin Lives of Irish saints from the Franciscan Killiney collection. 🙏 Thanks to Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social for cataloguing and highlighting this manuscript for digitisation. #DIASdiscovers

It's very exciting to have a new UCD-OFM addition to ISOS (@dias-isos.bsky.social). We are very grateful to the ISOS team for their work in enabling the UCD-OFM manuscripts to be viewed online by everyone free of charge.

Irish Script On Screen (www.isos.dias.ie)@dias-isos.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/2📜✨ New on ISOS: UCD Archives@ucdarchives.bsky.social MS F 1, 17th c., contains medieval Latin Lives of Irish saints from the Franciscan Killiney collection. 🙏 Thanks to Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social for cataloguing and highlighting this manuscript for digitisation. #DIASdiscovers

Many thanks to the International Council on Archives to invite me to contribute to Archives in Practice with a review of the ICA Basic Principles on the Role of Archivists and Records Managers in Support of Human Rights... 10 years later. members.ica.org/page-18184/1...

We were delighted to welcome author & journalist Ronan McGreevy to the JJ Library last Thurs to discuss his new book 'Seán Lemass: The Lost Memoir'. The book draws from a series of interviews with Lemass conducted by businessman & hotelier Dermot A. Ryan, which are preserved @ucdarchives.bsky.social

UCD History Master's student Sydney Patterson writes of the process of creating an engaging workbook on the Downing Street Declaration for secondary students, taking material from the Dermot Nally Collection, housed in @ucdarchives.bsky.social Read ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/05/21/f...

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...

UCD Library@ucdlibrary.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tomorrow, 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!

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 )