25,000 new historical records released by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
25,000 new historical records have been made freely available to the public to mark the 102nd anniversary of…
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Age-old traditional Arrow Ceremony to be re-enacted at Hook Lighthouse on New Year’s Day
An age-old tradition is set to take place on New Year’s Day at the 800-year-old Hook Lighthouse in…
Plaque in Memory of Sean Foster, First Child Fatality of the Easter 1916 Rising unveiled
Dublin City Council has today unveiled a Commemorative Plaque to remember Sean Foster, the first of 40 children…
Unique Irish wake museum about death opens in Waterford
The oldest urban domestic building in Ireland is now home to the Irish wake museum which traces the…
Irish Historian Gerard Shannon on the remarkable life of Liam Lynch
Liam Lynch was one of the most important figures of the Irish revolutionary period from 1916-23 but despite…
Ireland’s historical rail network mapped in new online resource
Students from Atlantic Technological University have completed a two-year project to map Ireland’s historical rail network and make…
Digitised minutes of Dublin City Council meetings posted online 181 years later
Dublin City Council is delighted to announce the release of a new collection of digitised minutes for its…
Dublin City Council releases new Irish heritage audio guides celebrating burial grounds
Dublin City Council has launched a new series of Irish heritage audio guides celebrating the history of some…
Headford Lacemaking given vital State recognition
By Ella Hassett, Headford Lace Project It was announced this August that eight key practices of Ireland’s living…
Artists to create first sculptures of women for Trinity’s Old Library
Trinity College Dublin has commissioned four artists to create four new sculpture bust portraits representing women scholars for…