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Ciarán Wallace
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Historian of Urban 19-20th c. Ireland/UK.
Deputy director @VirtualTreasury
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igrs1936.bsky.social
IGRS Top Research Tip #181: Ancestors from Co Tipperary? Try Tipperary Studies’ vast and ever growing collection for the county’s history and heritage: books, journals, local newspapers, maps, images including photos and postcards, archives and ephemera: www.tippstudiesdigital.ie?utm_source=c...
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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cbgenealogy.ie
I always presumed there was more to this than the way it was reported.
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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virtualtreasury.bsky.social
#WomenInRebellion Petition for survival: Jane Montgomery asked Lord Cornwallis for one thing: safe passage to America. Not land, not money — just the chance to escape retribution. Hers is one of many women’s petitions in the Rebellion Papers.

🔗 Read it here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...
Francisco Goya Woman in Prison 1797-98 185 x 125 mm Burnished aquatint, touched with black chalk on paper Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid NAI CSO/REB/620/51/91 Jane Montgomery (Co. Down), memorial to Marquess Cornwallis [no date, post-1798]
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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1952 - Suggested Extension for Dublin Airport
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1952 - Suggested Extension for Dublin Airport - Architecture of Fingal, Unbuilt Ireland - Archiseek.com
Architect: Desmond Fitzgerald The original terminal was planned to handle a maximum of 250,000 passengers per annum, by 1951 it was handling 276,000
www.archiseek.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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@historyireland.bsky.social
virtualtreasury.bsky.social Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · 6d
Enjoyed reading an expert article in History Ireland Nov/Dec 2025 (33:6) by @eneclann.bsky.social's Fiona Fitzsimons about Grand Jury records (One of our favourite sources 🙂)
And very kindly linking to our free downloadable guidebook:
People, Place and Power www.virtualtreasury.ie/publications 😀👍
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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virtualtreasury.bsky.social
Great feature in historyireland.bsky.social by bsky.app/profile/mayn... Eamon Darcy on William Molyneux & the birth of #LocalHistory in Ireland.

👀 our Curated collection
www.virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll...
📢 Shout out to funders bsky.app/profile/ria.ie
&
📷TCD Library bsky.app/profile/tcdd...
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Engraving of William Molyneux in full wig and white lace collar c. 1660s Image of the headline to Eamon Darcy's feature in History Ireland: 'A Heap of Rude Materials - William Molyneux and the birth of local Irish history in the age of empires.
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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igrs1936.bsky.social
One Thousand New Entries Added to our Early Irish BMD Indexes: www.irishancestors.ie/bmd-indexes-...
September 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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briangurrin.bsky.social
Me when I find a new census transcript.
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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rothweeee.bsky.social
Come along to hear this fantastic lineup speaking about one of the most important issues facing our sector!!
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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niamhroisin.bsky.social
Do share! The Catholic Historical Society of Ireland’s annual conference is on Daniel O’Connell and his Legacies - 22 Nov in @dculibrary.bsky.social - all welcome! (Small fee on the day) @nmireland.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social @jdmccafferty.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/oconnell-a...
O’CONNELL AND HIS LEGACY
Join us to celebrate the life and enduring impact of O'Connell and his legacy at our upcoming event!
www.eventbrite.ie
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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bucksarchives.bsky.social
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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virtualtreasury.bsky.social
Save the date! 📆 We are bringing the VRTI Roadshow to Kilkenny this month, with a special addition: the launch of Professor Keith Busby's new publication — The Statute of Kilkenny — published by the Irish Manuscripts Commission.

🗓️ Tues25 November 2025
🕠 6:45 – 9:00 PM
📍 Mayfair Library, Kilkenny
Source: L.Brown Collection
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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virtualtreasury.bsky.social
#WomenInRebellion Grief & defiance: Mary Ann McCracken’s letter after her brother’s execution is searing: a sister’s grief, a patriot’s outrage, and a refusal to forget.

Read her unflinching words here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...
NAI CSO/REB/620/16/3/8 — Mary Ann McCracken to Thomas Russell, describing trial and execution of her brother Henry Joy McCracken [Wednesday, 18 July 1798]
November 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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While Irishman Sir Roger Casement was exploring colonial atrocities in the Peruvian Amazon he was also collecting butterflies that are now in the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History. He was later executed in London for treason. Paper just published revue-colligo.fr/index.php/vo...
Six butterflies pinned in a museum storage box
November 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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ria.ie
Thank you to everyone who took part in today’s event
'The Troubles and the European Community: Exploring DIFP XIV (1969–73)'.
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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opwireland.bsky.social
On the first Wednesday of every month, many OPW Heritage Sites open their doors free of charge to visitors and families.
This November, why not explore one of Ireland’s remarkable castles, gardens or historic houses?

Plan your visit at:heritageireland.ie/visit/free-wednesday
November 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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irisharchives1970.bsky.social
Save the Date! 📢

Join us for our AGM & Lecture on Thurs, 13 November 2025 at 6pm in Dublin City Library & Archive.

Featuring @niamhnicharra.bsky.social on “A 60 Year Legacy of Advocacy and Activism – The Mary Robinson Archive.”

More details & registration link coming soon! 👀

#IrishArchives #EYA
November 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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natlibscot.bsky.social
We've just added more historic Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland to our website. You can now compare first edition one-inch to the mile maps dating from the 1860s to 1870s with second edition maps published between 1898 and 1902. maps.nls.uk/os/one-inch-...
Side by side view of historic one-inch to the mile maps of Bray, Ireland comparing 1880s with 1900s
November 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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joelherman.bsky.social
Had a wonderful time speaking with students at Columbia University about the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social recently. Many thanks to James Stafford for inviting me to zoom in to NY from Dublin, and to the students for their fantastic questions about Irish history, the archive, and so much more.
November 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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igrs1936.bsky.social
IGRS Top Research Tip #179: The records of Ireland’s Genealogical Office (created by the Ulster King of Arms) date from the 16th to 19th centuries and are described in detail here: shorturl.at/s5zdP
November 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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ria.ie
Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Royal Irish Academy on 22 October 2025 to celebrate the launch of Deeds of the Guild of St Anne, 1237 – 1778, a new digital resource created in partnership with the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social and the @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself
October 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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joelherman.bsky.social
Here is a link to the volume: Law and Constitutional Change. Many thanks to the editors David Capper, Conor McCormick and Norma Dawson.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Law and Constitutional Change
Cambridge Core - Constitutional and Administrative Law - Law and Constitutional Change
www.cambridge.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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joelherman.bsky.social
It is great to see this out in the world: ‘Courting the Past: Reconstructing Ireland’s Lost Legal Records, c.1300–1922. My contribution was minor. All credit to @petercrooks.bsky.social, @timvrti.bsky.social, @cwallacedublin.bsky.social.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Courting the Past (Chapter 17) - Law and Constitutional Change
Law and Constitutional Change - October 2025
www.cambridge.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM