Delighted to be at the Family History Day in Belfast Central Library today Sat 1 Aug 10.00a.m to 2.00 p.m. Come along and say Hello 🙂

#DIBLives "Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look." Along with disappointment and disillusionment, rage and pain, Maeve Binchy's view of the world also included a reassuring belief in human goodness, resilience and recovery. She died #OTD 2012. www.dib.ie/biography/bi...

Thrilled to present the VOICES project and @virtualtreasury.bsky.social to the delegation of EU ministers yesterday 🇪🇺 A huge thank you to Minister James Lawless inviting us 🙏 @adaptcentre.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @clairemcnulty.bsky.social

Have you discovered something fascinating in the National Library of Ireland's Reading Rooms? 📚 We're inviting registered readers to propose a 15 min Twilight Talk inspired by the NLI's collections. Successful speakers will receive a €100 honorarium. 🌙 ⭐ Apply by 23 Aug: https://ow.ly/SoSL50ZrgOf

Are you researching your Irish roots? 🇮🇪 The National Library of Ireland welcomes queries from the diaspora. Our free family history service is on hand to assist you and can provide advice on family history research: https://www.nli.ie/family-history

Look at these women gondoliers go - so fast that their hair streams out behind them. Detail from Giacomo Franco, Habiti d’huomeni et donne venetiane, 1610. Folger Shakespeare Library.

#DIBLives 'Tell them I have done my duty.' General of Antrim & Commander-in-Chief of the United Irish army of the north, Henry Joy McCracken was court-martialled & sentenced to death. He was executed #OTD 1798 having refused to name other leaders in exchange for clemency. www.dib.ie/biography/mc...

It's #ArchiveDiaspora Day! 📜🌎 Today we celebrate the stories of the Irish people & the archival collections that document journeys of migration, identity, belonging & home. Share your records today using #ArchiveDiaspora and tag us so we can help showcase the remarkable collections you hold!

📢 Good news! The deadline to #apply for our Research Studentship has been extended until Friday, 24 July 2026, at 3pm. The NLI, in association with the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences, are currently inviting applications for the Research Studentship: ow.ly/lwfe50ZnFu0

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📢 Applications are open for the National Library of Ireland’s 2026–2027 Studentships! ⭐ Library ⭐ Archival ⭐ Research A great opportunity to gain hands-on experience and develop your career. Learn more, and apply by 3pm, 17 July 2026: https://www.nli.ie/about-us/working-national-library-ireland

We're hiring a #ProjectManager to lead a multi-year, cross-institutional programme spanning cultural programming, professional development, research, and policy. ⭐ More info + #apply: https://www.nli.ie/about-us/working-national-library-ireland 📅 Closing date: 3pm, 24 July 2026. #Jobfairy

Check out the Irish Community Archive Network website…

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IGRS Top Research Tip #215: A wonderful way to explore Ireland's rich local heritage is through the Irish Community Archive Network website. It brings together community archives from across the island, making thousands of stories and photographs easy to discover: www.ouririshheritage.org

A trip to the coast is often a good way to cool down. However as this 1901 postcard points out, everyone else in Dublin may have a similar idea! This humorous postcard written to Irish republican William Pearse is featured in the Pearse Papers, 1870-1932 collection. https://ow.ly/9xSV50ZlTYT

#DIBLives “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.” “Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.” Philosopher and politician Edmund Burke died #OTD 1797. www.dib.ie/biography/bu...

Exciting news - our online platform of over 650,000 metadata records of UK doctoral theses (EThOS) is now available again  Find out more about EThOS and how to use it on our website link.bl.uk/kxk

Not every historic newspaper survives as a complete run. Some exist as just a single surviving issue. 📰 Discover how one volume of 55 rare Irish newspapers (1915–1944) was carefully conserved for digitisation, preserving these fragile editions for future generations. 🗞️ https://ow.ly/5SOi50ZkIoZ

Made to Degrade: Preparing bound 20th century newspapers for digitisation

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Thrilled to hear this afternoon that my article on medieval women interacting with English government in Ireland is now live at Speculum! It was all due to the resources @virtualtreasury.bsky.social 50 people can access it for free here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/VCYQU...

A great week for @virtualtreasury.bsky.social and VOICES! Over half a million Irish records now freely available incl thousands more early modern women 🎉 @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social www.irishcentral.com/roots/histor...

Over half a million Irish historical records are now free to explore online

A major expansion of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland opens up nearly 200,000 new records while a new project will uncover Ireland's forgotten stories in French archives.

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IGRS Top Research Tip #214: Has your research stalled in the 18th century? Checkout the Virtual Record Treasury’s online 1766 Religious Census database with new interactive map feature. It covers all known surviving census data from this vital resource: kg.virtualtreasury.ie/collection-m...

The NLI travelling exhibition Strangers to Citizens opens this week at Clare Libraries as part of #Ireland2026EU 🇮🇪🇪🇺 Explore the story of the Irish in Continental Europe through images from the National Library's collections. 📍Ennis (1–22 Jul) 📍Scariff (23 Jul–5 Aug) 📍Shannon (6–26 Aug) Free entry

More records, more collections + new research tools in our 2026 New Releases. www.tcd.ie/news_events/... Hear about some of the great stories being made available: 📻️ 👇️ www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... Jump in and go Hunting ! 😊 New to the VRTI? Check out our help Page: virtualtreasury.ie/help

📣 🧐 Come see over half a million freely available records. Dive in and explore! 👇 View 194,000 new releases and 10 new features in one place 👇 www.virtualtreasury.ie/2026-new-rel... New to the Virtual Treasury? Check out our Help page for mini-videos and a User Guide www.virtualtreasury.ie/help

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Virtual Treasury

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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.'

OTD in 1922 Dublin's Four Courts, incl Ireland's Public Record Office, was destroyed during the Civil War. @virtualtreasury.bsky.social have been working hard to reassemble the lost records from copies held elsewhere & they've just released 194,000 'new' documents: virtualtreasury.ie/2026-new-rel...

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Virtual Treasury

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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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#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

IGRS Top Research Tip #213: Are you seeking pre-1800 sources for Irish genealogy? This free video talk by former PRONI archivist, Valerie Adams, shines a light on a myriad such underused resources: www.irishancestors.ie/lesser-known...

Tues 30 Jun Trinity College Dublin. See the huge range of records + research added to the Virtual Treasury. - Search our New Releases for the history of your locality. - New interactive map of the 1766 Religious census and more! Free, all welcome, book here www.virtualtreasury.ie/events/vrti-...

This is really cool #LongC18 urbanformation.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/a...

Analyzing London’s Eighteenth-Century Road Network

Mapping centrality on the roads from London: A study of late eighteenth-century London and its environs to measure the correspondence between global radiality and local centrality I am posting belo…

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Director’s Tour of the National Library of Ireland 📚 Part of Dublin by Dusk 🌃 📅 Thurs 25 June, 6pm Join Director Dr Audrey Whitty for a guided tour of the NLI’s Victorian building on Kildare St inc. the stunning Reading Room & stories of Ireland’s great writers & thinkers https://ow.ly/J4m650Z3KGO

Director's Tour of the National Library of Ireland

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📢 Calling all speakers: the deadline is approaching! Do you have a passion for local history, genealogy, archives, maps, communities or the stories hidden within a place? Submit your 10-minute talk proposal for #AATP 2026 before 30 June. 🔗 sog.org.uk/all-about-that-place-call-for-speakers