We’re pleased to announce that a limited service for our Prints & Drawings and Ephemera Collections Reading Room is now available. Appointments must be pre-booked at least 3 weeks in advance. Queries + reader access: prints&[email protected] 🎨 More info: nli.ie/collections/ou…

Explore Dublin’s rich historical and architectural heritage with free tours, workshops, and trails at the National Museum of Ireland for #OpenHouseDublin 2024- from 12 to 20 October 2024. Irish Architecture Foundation museum.ie/en-IE/News/Ope…

A few tickets left for our Dublin Festival of History tour of the Royal Irish Academy on Tuesday morning. 📅 Tues, 8 October 🕐 9.30am 🎫 Free, booking required 🔗tickettailor.com/events/royalir… Royal Irish Academy

@irishmanuscripts #HistFest24 lecture just started — full house! ⁦@VirtualTreasury⁩ ⁦National Archives, Ireland⁩ ⁦Dublin Festival of History⁩

⁦Dr Ciarán Wallace of ⁦@VirtualTreasury⁩ talking about how records can be lost outside of catastrophic events

Ciarán Wallace of ⁦@VirtualTreasury⁩ showing one of the last photographs of the PROI in May 1922 before it was destroyed ⁦IMC⁩ #HistFest24

Jessica Baldwin of ⁦National Archives, Ireland⁩ showing a MS from 1309 — one of the oldest records to survive the fire of 1922 ⁦Dublin Festival of History⁩ ⁦@VirtualTreasury⁩ ⁦IMC⁩

Tim Murtagh of ⁦@VirtualTreasury⁩ talking about the records of the Chief Secretary’s Office in Dublin Castle – “ … the most troublesome office in the British Empire” – including letters to 18th Century spy master Edward Cooke ⁦Dublin Festival of History⁩

Join us for @riadawson Research Day on Tuesday 19 November where Academy Librarian Barbara McCormack will co-present a paper with our collaborative partner Prof Pádraig Ó Macháin of Nua Ghaeilge UCC on the We are now Research Ireland-funded Inks And Skins project. More information below ⬇️

Love it when a new edition is delivered! Anne P. Fuller's posthumously published calendar of the outstanding Irish and British material in the Curia for the papacy of Leo X is now available. It was prepared for publication by Dr Alan Macquarrie.

The IHTA's Sarah Gearty gave her presentation as part of the Royal Irish Academy Research Day on 'Placing our heritage: creating and preserving the Digital Atlas of Cork'

For #ExploreYourArchive theme #Decisions we have selected one of the wills registered in the Registry of Deeds. The will of Abraham Hill who died in 1777 made the decision to leave his son ‘one British shilling and no more’ to reflect past grievances between the two.

CPR vol 21 covers the 2nd & final tranche of the Lateran Registers for Leo X (1513–1521). It brings to light a great deal of biographical and topographical information illustrating the ecclesiastical landscape of the British & Irish islands. Available now irishmanuscripts.ie/product/cpr21/

Read more about Lebor na hUidre, also known as the Book of the Dun Cow, and find the link to the digital copy on Irish Script On Screen (www.isos.dias.ie) at this link: ria.ie/collections/ma… And if you are in the Dublin city area, call in between 10am-4.30pm this week to see the real thing on display!

Maddock Fellow John Gallagher John Gallagher kindly striking a pose to show off the reading room's very nifty #ScanTent from Transkribus, which he's using to photograph (slightly mysterious) Spanish & Italian manuscripts in the reading room

20 Feb 1610: beatification ceremony for Ignatius Loyola, founder of the #Jesuit order attended by #Dublin #Jesuit, Henry Fitzsimon #otd (BM) For Jesuit promotion in Ireland of the cult of Ignatius & Francis Xavier, see the Annual Letters published by IMC

20 Feb 1641: Sir John Temple made Master of the Rolls in #Ireland & Privy Councillor #otd He was later an influential writer on the 1641 rebellion. For firsthand accounts of the violent events of 1641, see the 1641 Depositions series from IMC

Last chance to get copies of these editions … fewer than 5 copies of each on our shelves … check out these titles and our latest publications at irishmanuscripts.ie

PRONI is open late next Thursday! 💫📜 On the 27/02/25 we will be open from 10am - 8pm with document ordering available until 7:15pm. A "Getting Started at PRONI" workshop will also be running from 6pm - 7:20pm⏰ Booking is essential for workshop: bit.ly/41hcb1j

Join Oein De Bhairduin, as he explores the traditions of midwifery in Traveller culture & highlights unique objects from the museum’s collection. 📅Talk: Midwifery in Traveller Culture ⏲️ Saturday, 22 February, 2 pm 📌 Turlough Park, Castlebar, Mayo museum.ie/en-IE/Museums/…