
Orlaith McBride
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Director of the National Archives // The views are my own personal // @NARIreland
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http://nationalarchives.ie 08-05-2014 17:04:09
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Christmas and New Year closure: the Reading Room will be open until 12.30pm on Tuesday 24 December and will then close until Wednesday 1 January 2025 inclusive. We will re-open after the holidays on Thursday 2 January at 10am. Tourism-Culture-Arts-Gaeltacht-Sport-Media




There’s plenty of reading in today’s media coverage of the release of #StatePapers relating mainly to 1994 and we're looking forward to bringing you more over the next few days! Tourism-Culture-Arts-Gaeltacht-Sport-Media




In case you missed our colleague Brian Donnelly showing some of our wonderful Ordnance Survey maps like that for Templemore pictured here and our Valuation Office records RTÉ Nationwide last Friday, you can catch it on the RTE Player at bit.ly/3DVNgXV! Tourism-Culture-Arts-Gaeltacht-Sport-Media




Delighted to welcome Ambassador Gill yesterday and to show him a selection of the wonderful archives we hold on the building of Ardnacrusha power station by Siemens Ireland which celebrates the centenary this year of its presence in Ireland.

To celebrate #IWD2025, we're highlighting VOICES_ERC project which digitised 1,000+ Chancery Pleadings we hold relating to women like Margaret Ní Dhonnchadha & the Lady of Lackagh, Dame Margaret Butler. Discover their stories at buff.ly/ErhWcjd & buff.ly/nX0f7ww!


Our Director Orlaith McBride was delighted to welcome Romanian Ambassador Laurențiu-Mihai Ștefan and colleagues Andrea Uncheaşu and Frederica Barlescu to the NAI earlier. We wish them every success in their research on 35 years of Irish-Romanian diplomatic ties! Laurențiu-Mihai Ștefan


D'fhógair an tAire Patrick O'Donovan go bhfuil Coiste Comhairleach Cuimhneacháin nua bunaithe, agus fógraíodh freisin an saothar is déanaí atá faighte ag National Archives, Ireland - comhaontú sínithe ag De Valera, de Staic, Ó Gríofa agus Ó Coileáin, dar dáta an 22 Feabhra 1922 bit.ly/3SoN5s3


We're honoured to receive these new acquisitions at the National Archives and thank the Minister Patrick O'Donovan for his support in bringing them into our national collection.

We're thrilled with the new additions to our collections which are an election agreement signed by de Valera, Stack, Griffith & Collins from 1922 & a memorial card for Collins. Read all about our exciting news at buff.ly/BQpG5ZK & buff.ly/fjPVMB0! Tourism-Culture-Arts-Gaeltacht-Sport-Media


Are you a qualified conservator who's interested in joining the National Archives team? Details of this exciting role including eligibility requirements are available at buff.ly/dsaQ0wV and the closing date for applications is 19 June @3pm. Tourism-Culture-Arts-Gaeltacht-Sport-Media


Delighted to be a part of and attend the screening of In the Opinion of the Censor Irish Film Institute yesterday evening which featured the Irish Film Censors records National Archives, Ireland Congratulations to John Kelleher and Andrew Gallimore and IFCO


To our newsletter subscribers, our May edition tells you all about our newly acquired Michael Collins memorial card & signed agreement relating to the general election of 1922. If you haven't already signed up for it, you can do so now at buff.ly/3ywAg5S! Tourism-Culture-Arts-Gaeltacht-Sport-Media


Our recently acquired Ml Collins memorial card & election agreement are on display for June in our building on Bishop St and also available to view on our website at buff.ly/c7cls5H & buff.ly/B8yKx3t. Do drop in for a visit, we'd love to see you! Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
