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Peter Crooks
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Medieval Historian, Trinity College Dublin: @historytcd.bsky.social | Academic Director, Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (https://www.virtualtreasury.ie): @virtualtreasury.bsky.social

Digging sentences, in archives, in gardens.
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Peter Crooks @petercrooks.bsky.social · Nov 15
Hello to my one follower @richardiiisociety.bsky.social — please don’t be offended: my Richard special subject has one digit less.
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ria.ie
Discover how libraries are helping the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland to recover Ireland's history.

Join us for a lecture with Dr Sarah Hendriks and see the RIA Library's physical exhibition. 3pm, Wednesday 8 October. Visit https://www.ria.ie/events/ for booking

@virtualtreasury.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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speakerconolly.bsky.social
Congratulations to my @historytcd.bsky.social colleagues @petercrooks.bsky.social and @cwallacedublin.bsky.social and their team @virtualtreasury.bsky.social on repurposing 30 June as a joyful day of archival discovery through their extraordinary work
June 30, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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irishinstitute.bsky.social
103 years ago #OTD Dublin's Four Courts, including the Irish PRO, was destroyed at the start of the Irish Civil War.
Last year we enjoyed a fascinating talk by @petercrooks.bsky.social on @virtualtreasury.bsky.social's efforts to reconstruct these lost records, the latest batch of which is out now!
'New lease of life' - Project digitises archive documents
175,000 new historical records lost during a fire at the Four Courts during the Civil War in 1922 are being made available online, including 60,000 names from the Irish 19th century censuses.
www.rte.ie
June 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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dariaheu.bsky.social
📢 (Re)Introducing DARIAH-IE! 🇮🇪

On Tuesday May 27th DARIAH-IE will be hosting an online event for members of the Irish Digital Arts & Humanities communities and beyond, to give an an overview of DARIAH-IE & its exciting plans for the coming years 🤗

➡️ www.dariah.eu/2025/05/07/r...
May 14, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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speakerconolly.bsky.social
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
Virtual Treasury
Virtual Treasury
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February 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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jmarshallmed.bsky.social
Airport bound after an enjoyable couple of days at the Scottish Medievalists Conference in snowy Cumbernauld, where I was speaking on 13thC connections between Ireland and Scotland
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January 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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joelherman.bsky.social
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...
Virtual Treasury
Virtual Treasury
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December 23, 2024 at 11:02 AM
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joelherman.bsky.social
Also ran into a 'Mr. Beamish' and an 'honourable foreman Mr. Guinness'. A banner day for the stouts...
December 20, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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virtualtreasury.bsky.social
Our newest Gold Seam is live — "Fiants of Tudor Monarchs" curated by Sadhbh Dunne, Dr Eamonn Kenny, and @petercrooks.bsky.social.

virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/f...
Stained glass portrait of Henry VIII, Cardiff Castle. Source: Flickr, Leo Reynolds. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
December 20, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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virtualtreasury.bsky.social
👀 trailer for this '16mm/ Artificially Intelligent film' here 👇
www.maireadmcclean.com/acts-of-memory
ACTS OF MEMORY — MAIRÉAD McCLEAN
ACTS OF MEMORY FILM
www.maireadmcclean.com
December 18, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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virtualtreasury.bsky.social
The Belgrade-Based Kinoscop celebrates experimental approaches to working with celluloid in the digital age and showcases imaginative films that evoke powerful audiovisual experiences and thought-provoking reflections, drawing inspiration from experimental, surrealist, and underground cinema.
December 18, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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virtualtreasury.bsky.social
A HUGE congratulations to Mairéad McClean who was recently awarded the Kinoscop International Festival of Analog Experimental Cinema's Curator's Award 2024 for her film, 'Acts of Memory'.

More information can be found here:
virtualtreasury.ie/news/mairead...
Still from 'Acts of Memory' — a woman in black and white and in early 20th century period clothing is depicted from the side reading a book. A straw hat is on the table next to her book. In the top left-hand corner, the text "Curators Award / Kinoscop - Analog Experimental Film Festival / 2025" can be seen surrounded by award laurels. A poster for "Acts of Memory" in black and white.
December 18, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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rjcassidy.bsky.social
I will wait patiently for the full thing - meanwhile, hurrah for any mention of Mabel Mills!
December 19, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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virtualtreasury.bsky.social
😃 Delighted that Mairéad McClean's brilliant film
'Acts of Memory' is selected as the opening screening at www.kinoskop.co Museum of Yugoslav Film Archive 8-10 Dec 2024
👀 trailer for this '16mm/ Artificially Intelligent film' here 👇
www.maireadmcclean.com/acts-of-memory
Insta: @maclofski
Still from 'Acts of Memory' - full face shot of the archivist putting on his glasses as the image comes into focus. Mairead McClean was the Decade of Centenaries Artist in Residence with the Trinity Long Room Hub working with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. Still from 'Acts of Memory' showing newsreel footage of the shelling of the Four Courts, Dublin, in June 1922 - in the battle which resulted in the destruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland and its seven centuries of Irish historical records. Still from 'Acts of Memory' showing a hand opening to reveal a chestnut
December 4, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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virtualtreasury.bsky.social
Our colleagues @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social and Paul Dryburgh wrote about linking together medieval
#Irish collections both in Ireland and the UK to tell the story of Alexander Bicknor's corruption in new ways.

Read about it here: virtualtreasury.ie/hidden-stori...
Psalter of Queen Isabella of England (between 1303 and 1308). Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. ALT: Initial letter "A" of Psalm 120 illuminated with the queen praying, flanked by the arms of England and France.
December 6, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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joelherman.bsky.social
Very much looking forward to taking part in this conference next Tuesday, the 17 December at the Centre for Early Modern Studies, King's College London.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/confe...
Rethinking State and Society in Early Modern Britain — CEMS KCL Blog
Conference on the state and society in early modern Britain.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
December 11, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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virtualtreasury.bsky.social
Spying on Hibernia:
Intelligence Gathering in Ireland, 1660-1900

Psssst! Check out the great line-up at this fascinating
symposium tomorrow (Thursday, November 28) in PRONI, Belfast
🤫🧐🔎
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spying-on-...
Spying on Hibernia: Intelligence Gathering in Ireland, 1660-1900
A One-Day Symposium (PRONI, Belfast)
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 9:57 AM
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virtualtreasury.bsky.social
Congratulations to our team member Anna Attwood, who recently completed her PhD in @historytcd.bsky.social!

Read more about Anna's research here: virtualtreasury.ie/news/vrti-te...
November 27, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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virtualtreasury.bsky.social
Excellent start to the Royal Irish Academy's Research Day. 3 Great examples of research, collaboration and deploying the digital.
Handsome shelves of books on the RIA library Eoin Kinsella describing the Dictionary of Irish Biography's digital collaborations with Macmorris and ourselves. RIA Research Day programme
November 19, 2024 at 11:17 AM
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leafandstream.bsky.social
Today, I had the chance to visit the National Library of Luxembourg together w. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín & HE Ambassador Jean McDonald. We were shown some of the oldest fragments in their collection, incl. one of Gregory's Dialogues & the Hisperica Famina, both of 7th-c. date & kept at Echternach. 1/2
November 19, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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virtualtreasury.bsky.social
Search through 1,000 issues of the Dublin Gazette www.virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll...
... lots more to follow 😉 Thanks Oireachtas Library! 👍

Read the story of this interesting newspaper - 50/50 official news and local gossip!
www.virtualtreasury.ie/published-by...
Screen grab of our 'Published by Authority' article telling the story of the Dublin Gazette from the 17th century to independence.
November 15, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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elizabethbiggs.bsky.social
For TNA's website, Paul Dryburgh and I wrote about linking together medieval #Irish collections at National Archives, both in Ireland and the UK to tell the story of Alexander Bicknor's corruption in new ways.

beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
Revealing the (corrupt) record in 14th-century Ireland
Hidden in the collections of The National Archives is a medieval story of ‘corruption never before seen’. In 1325 officials at the Westminster Exchequer found suspicious mistakes in the account of the...
beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk
November 15, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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richardiiisociety.bsky.social
Not a problem! Our members have broad interests - even allll the way back to Richard II.
November 15, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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historytcd.bsky.social
The Irish Manuscripts Commission has launched Analecta Hibernica Special Issue No. 53: “The Fire of 1922” edited by Elva Johnston, Virtual Records Treasury of Ireland
Director Peter Crooks, and Virtual Treasury
Research Fellow Timothy Murtagh. Many of the authors are
VirtualTreasury
scholars.
A group of 13 scholars, 7 women and 6 men, stand holding copies of the Analecta Hibernica special issue.
December 11, 2023 at 10:57 AM