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Today’s research mystery: why would an eighteenth century lease mandate the drinking of a barrel of ale at a particular spot ‘and not elsewhere’ in Co Down. Registry of Deeds collection on @virtualtreasury.bsky.social keeps giving. Also bring back this tradition

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CFP. 35th Irish Conference of Historians, 'Inner lives and outer realities', 12-13 September, Maynooth University www.historians.ie/cfp-35th-iri...

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Were your Carlow ancestors involved in the 1798 Rebellion? ...but on which side? Join us tomorrow at our Carlow Roadshow to find out, 6:30-8:30pm at @carlowlibraries.bsky.social (R93 K126)! 🟩 🟥 🟨

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⚡️The project page for the Michael Davitt papers project is now live ⚡️We now have all things Michael Davitt in the one place! You can find links to the catalogue, the digitised images and an exhibition of photographs from the collection! www.tcd.ie/library/rese...

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

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The Virtual Treasury Roadshow Exploring the history of Carlow & its people through the lens of an exciting online resource Carlow Central Library - Thurs 27 Feb - 6.30pm Essential FREE Booking at https://buff.ly/3Qp21ph Tel. 059-9129701 / [email protected]

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This looks interesting 👇🙂 To accompany Episode One you might enjoy this fascinating (and free!) collection of 8,000 Tudor Fiants relating to Ireland. These were the daily stuff of colonisation📜✍️ www.virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/f...

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Honoured to be invited by NI Science Festival and PRONI to speak on the technology behind the VRTI today. Great turnout + interesting questions (and our youngest ever audience member! 🤗👶) @timvrti.bsky.social @bookandpaper-ni.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social

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📢📢 Belfast Science fans! Come to PRONI 1.00pm today The Technology of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland nisciencefestival.com/events/the-t... Great short talks by: Tim Murtagh: VRTI tech Sarah Graham: complex conservation Lynn Kilgallon: Knowledge Graphs + history nisciencefestival.com

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Wayback Machine playback (and other functions) is down because of a power outage induced hardware failure. We are working to address this issue and bring the services back up ASAP. Thank you for your support and patience!

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Just another reminder that we're headed to @carlowlibraries.bsky.social next week, Thursday 27 Feb at 6:30pm for our roadshow! Attendance is free but please register here as places are limited: buff.ly/4k0BT1g See you all there!

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It’s a good time to be a student interested in #legalhistory: 1. The Irish Legal History Society is running an essay prize: www.irishlegalhistorysociety.org?page_id=1464 2. @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social is offering PhD #funding: www.ucd.ie/law/study/sc... #history #histlaw #skystorian #PhD

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Oooh- my @virtualtreasury.bsky.social fun find for this morning is a woman, Agnes White, inheriting land from her relative, Emma, daughter of Adam White, in Co. Meath in 1356. Lovely tangled landholding here, and a rare example of a woman inheriting from a female relative in these sources.

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Updated CFP for ‘Ireland and the American Revolution’, a conference to be held @tlrhub.bsky.social on the 9-10 October 2025.

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Looking for some case studies in the Registry of Deeds for something I am writing and found a Patrick Walsh as the beneficiary of a will in 1709! virtualtreasury.ie/item/ROD-PR-... @virtualtreasury.bsky.social

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Once thought lost, now digitally available, an Irish manuscript translation of Book 1 of Paradise Lost, via @dias-isos.bsky.social, with my own catalogue entry for the manuscripts. Also first manuscript from a North American library on the wonderful @dias-isos.bsky.social

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Come & work with me! Principal Records Specialist - Maps job at The National Archives (UK). Apply by 12 Feb. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi... #MapMonday #ArchivesJobs #MondayMotivation

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Hoping that the dig in Belgium has found #Sarsfield we dug for his name in the archives. 👀📜 Among many Sarsfield results is this: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-PRI... National Archives Ireland: PRIV/67/M/2459 Is this the right Patrick S? 🔎 www.dib.ie/biography/sa... @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social

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Funded PhD opportunity: School of History and Geography, DCU. I am happy to discuss this opportunity with any prospective PhD student who would like to work in the area of women and gender in Ireland - later nineteenth century to 1980s.

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The first major attempt to ‘alter’ the penal laws in eighteenth-century Ireland came in 1778. The debates over Catholic Relief that summer run to around 700 pages in the Cavendish transcripts beginning in vol. 10, but things really get going in vol. 11: virtualtreasury.ie/item/LOC-MSS...

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Tomorrow! In person and online. Magna Carta: New Discoveries. Thought there was nothing new to learn or say about this historic document? Think again! visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jan25/...

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More exciting work from @bookandpaper-ni.bsky.social 😊 Looking forward to making this important early document available alongside the wonderful Register of Primate John Swayne, Archbishop of Armagh virtualtreasury.ie/item/PRONI-D... (also conserved by @bookandpaper-ni.bsky.social !)

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#YearoftheSnake Belfast, 1805: in a curious reversal of Patrick's policy, a snake found its way to Ireland and paid a visit to the home of barrister / longtime informer within the United Irishmen Leonard McNally (DIB: bit.ly/4hfSht0), presumably sent by an enemy! virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...

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Very nice! I'll be giving a talk on @virtualtreasury.bsky.social at Rootstech in March. #GenHour

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We're headed for #Carlow! Our next #Roadshow will be Thursday, 27 February at @carlowlibraries.bsky.social, Tullow Street (R93 K126). Watch this space for more information in the coming weeks! ❤️ 💛 💚 @cwallacedublin.bsky.social @briangurrin.bsky.social

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So happy this is happening. Long time coming! Well done @ucdarchives.bsky.social and @ucdlibrary.bsky.social ! Unfortunately, too sick to attend 🥲

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For more (much more!) on this eh ... fascinating cleric might we suggest searching for his name in here:👇👇👇 😉 www.virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/m...

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Really enjoyed listening back to the panel discussion I took part in on 'Future Archives + Digital Practice' at the BETA Technology & Arts festival 2024, broadcast on Luke Clancy's Culture File, Sat evening 11 Jan. The artistry that is possible ! 🤯 📻🎧👇 🙂 www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

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the #cfp is now open for Women's History Assoc Ireland Annual Conf @whaireland.bsky.social. Thrilled to be organising 2025 w/ institutional historian @judybolger.bsky.social on the theme of Women & Loss - see here tinyurl.com/5h3c8kr7 in historic heartland of #Carlow #History #ReproHist #GriefHist

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From the outbreak of the American War of Independence to the outset of the French Revolution, 1776-1789, the Cavendish Transcripts provide the only first-hand account of the debates of the Irish Parliament. And they are now available on the VRTI platform: virtualtreasury.ie/item/LOC-MSS.... (1/6)

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We are hereby reopening the successful MSP Archive clinic. We invite you to use this thread to ask us questions about the collection, its provenance and file content, army pension legislation, quotes and references, use of material and archival cataloguing. [126,585 files catalogued so far] 👇🏽

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The WHAI are delighted to announce the call for papers for our 2025 Conference. See our website for more details. retweets appreciated.

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Have you browsed through our newest gold seam yet? The Fiants of Tudor Monarchs are all here, organised by reign: virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/f...

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Sure you've seen the famous #BayeuxTapestry, but have you seen it in all its sensational high-res thread-glory? Breathtaking online resource, a joint effort of the City of Bayeux, DRAC Normandie, Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie, University of Caen, & CNRS: www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...

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Many of the Stormont files declassified today are exceptionally bland. Gone are the candid views, blunt assessments and granular detail of decades past. This is likely due to two factors: The growing use of email and the looming Freedom of Information Act.

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Great to see papers from Limerick to London to Jersey pick up this good news story. 📖👀 Read about Sarah Graham's work on another very early volume www.virtualtreasury.ie/hidden-stori... Watch here 🎞️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=baFt... The power of strong partnership 😀 👍 (@DeptCultureIRL .X)

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Fascinating piece on @rte.ie about the great conservation under way at Public Record office of Northern Ireland on (quite possibly!) the earliest paper document on the island of Ireland 🙂👓 [Image shows the expert work of Sarah Graham Head of Conservation PRONI 👇] www.rte.ie/news/2024/12...

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For historians of the news, media, eighteenth-century Ireland, and the Atlantic world: the Dublin Gazette, 1750-1800 is up on the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social online platform here www.virtualtreasury.ie/browse/Dubli...

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My latest Scottish GENES Newsletter is now available to read at eomail6.com/web-version?... #genealogy #FamilyHistory #Scotland

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Avoiding colds and cough for Christmas? Try this remedy for a sore throat from 1763, taken from the ever-practical Dublin Gazette held by our wonderful partners at the Oireachtas Library. 👀 www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/DGZ-176... (now where to buy a naggin of pounded nettle root |?🤔)

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Who doesn't love a festive and fun palaeography challenge for the holidays! Why not print it off and play at home on Christmas Day?

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