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To wrap up the #ExploreYourArchive focus week, we are sharing a festive item from our collections.
This is a 1938 sales catalogue of personalised Christmas greeting cards sold by Royal Renaissance Art Christmas Cards.
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This is a 1938 sales catalogue of personalised Christmas greeting cards sold by Royal Renaissance Art Christmas Cards.
#EYAYourArchives
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December 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
To wrap up the #ExploreYourArchive focus week, we are sharing a festive item from our collections.
This is a 1938 sales catalogue of personalised Christmas greeting cards sold by Royal Renaissance Art Christmas Cards.
#EYAYourArchives
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This is a 1938 sales catalogue of personalised Christmas greeting cards sold by Royal Renaissance Art Christmas Cards.
#EYAYourArchives
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2025 marked the anniversaries of the opening (1895) & closing (1935) of the Galway-Clifden railway. Arthur J. Balfour's album documents the railway's construction.
The Balfour album is fully digitised: digital.library.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/categor...
#EYAAnniversaries #ExploreYourArchive
The Balfour album is fully digitised: digital.library.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/categor...
#EYAAnniversaries #ExploreYourArchive
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
2025 marked the anniversaries of the opening (1895) & closing (1935) of the Galway-Clifden railway. Arthur J. Balfour's album documents the railway's construction.
The Balfour album is fully digitised: digital.library.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/categor...
#EYAAnniversaries #ExploreYourArchive
The Balfour album is fully digitised: digital.library.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/categor...
#EYAAnniversaries #ExploreYourArchive
Today's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAInclusion
At the 2024 launch of the Mincéirs Archive of Irish Travellers, Dr Mary Warde Moriarty shows a photo of her father, Edward Warde, held in the collection
Credit: Aengus McMahon, August 2024
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At the 2024 launch of the Mincéirs Archive of Irish Travellers, Dr Mary Warde Moriarty shows a photo of her father, Edward Warde, held in the collection
Credit: Aengus McMahon, August 2024
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December 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Today's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAInclusion
At the 2024 launch of the Mincéirs Archive of Irish Travellers, Dr Mary Warde Moriarty shows a photo of her father, Edward Warde, held in the collection
Credit: Aengus McMahon, August 2024
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At the 2024 launch of the Mincéirs Archive of Irish Travellers, Dr Mary Warde Moriarty shows a photo of her father, Edward Warde, held in the collection
Credit: Aengus McMahon, August 2024
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We’re proud to hold a range of #EYADigital collections: photos, documents, audio, video and born-digital material.
Today we’re highlighting the Imirce Project, which shares thousands of Irish emigrant letters and life stories.
Explore it here: imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms
#ExploreYourArchive
Today we’re highlighting the Imirce Project, which shares thousands of Irish emigrant letters and life stories.
Explore it here: imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms
#ExploreYourArchive
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
We’re proud to hold a range of #EYADigital collections: photos, documents, audio, video and born-digital material.
Today we’re highlighting the Imirce Project, which shares thousands of Irish emigrant letters and life stories.
Explore it here: imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms
#ExploreYourArchive
Today we’re highlighting the Imirce Project, which shares thousands of Irish emigrant letters and life stories.
Explore it here: imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms
#ExploreYourArchive
The Boy Who Drew Cats from the Ringling North collection.
Lafcadio Hearn, in The Boy Who Drew Cats, retells a Japanese folk tale and explores themes of creativity and individuality.
#EYAPets #ExploreYourArchive
Lafcadio Hearn, in The Boy Who Drew Cats, retells a Japanese folk tale and explores themes of creativity and individuality.
#EYAPets #ExploreYourArchive
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The Boy Who Drew Cats from the Ringling North collection.
Lafcadio Hearn, in The Boy Who Drew Cats, retells a Japanese folk tale and explores themes of creativity and individuality.
#EYAPets #ExploreYourArchive
Lafcadio Hearn, in The Boy Who Drew Cats, retells a Japanese folk tale and explores themes of creativity and individuality.
#EYAPets #ExploreYourArchive
Some more #EYAPets in our archives!
Siobhán McKenna's dogs, a terrier called Pegeen Mike, and her beloved elkhound, Rory. After Rory passed away, a friend of Siobhán's wrote this tribute to him.
#ExploreYourArchive
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Siobhán McKenna's dogs, a terrier called Pegeen Mike, and her beloved elkhound, Rory. After Rory passed away, a friend of Siobhán's wrote this tribute to him.
#ExploreYourArchive
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December 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Some more #EYAPets in our archives!
Siobhán McKenna's dogs, a terrier called Pegeen Mike, and her beloved elkhound, Rory. After Rory passed away, a friend of Siobhán's wrote this tribute to him.
#ExploreYourArchive
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Siobhán McKenna's dogs, a terrier called Pegeen Mike, and her beloved elkhound, Rory. After Rory passed away, a friend of Siobhán's wrote this tribute to him.
#ExploreYourArchive
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Today's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAPets
From his Presidential archive, a photograph of Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, with his friend Richard Kearney and his family, along with his two dogs Bród and Misneach, 31 Jan 2016.
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From his Presidential archive, a photograph of Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, with his friend Richard Kearney and his family, along with his two dogs Bród and Misneach, 31 Jan 2016.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Today's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAPets
From his Presidential archive, a photograph of Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, with his friend Richard Kearney and his family, along with his two dogs Bród and Misneach, 31 Jan 2016.
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From his Presidential archive, a photograph of Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, with his friend Richard Kearney and his family, along with his two dogs Bród and Misneach, 31 Jan 2016.
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Colonel Sauerzweig’s arrangement and translation of 'Silent Night' from the Conradh na Gaeilge archive🌟
Humming beneath the melody, the lower voices in the quartet set a quiet, peaceful tone that fits today’s #ExploreYourArchive theme of #EYASilence
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Humming beneath the melody, the lower voices in the quartet set a quiet, peaceful tone that fits today’s #ExploreYourArchive theme of #EYASilence
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December 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Colonel Sauerzweig’s arrangement and translation of 'Silent Night' from the Conradh na Gaeilge archive🌟
Humming beneath the melody, the lower voices in the quartet set a quiet, peaceful tone that fits today’s #ExploreYourArchive theme of #EYASilence
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Humming beneath the melody, the lower voices in the quartet set a quiet, peaceful tone that fits today’s #ExploreYourArchive theme of #EYASilence
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Wishing all at @kennysbookshop.bsky.social warm wishes celebrating 85 years at the heart of Galway books, art, and more. This archives Kenny's brochure even included a map of the original shop on High Street!
December 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Wishing all at @kennysbookshop.bsky.social warm wishes celebrating 85 years at the heart of Galway books, art, and more. This archives Kenny's brochure even included a map of the original shop on High Street!
Today's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAMedieval
Some of the oldest books in our collections are these volumes of Bible commentary by Nicholas of Lyra (c. 1270-1349), printed in 1497 by Anton Koberger, printer of the Nuremberg Chronicle.
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Some of the oldest books in our collections are these volumes of Bible commentary by Nicholas of Lyra (c. 1270-1349), printed in 1497 by Anton Koberger, printer of the Nuremberg Chronicle.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Today's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAMedieval
Some of the oldest books in our collections are these volumes of Bible commentary by Nicholas of Lyra (c. 1270-1349), printed in 1497 by Anton Koberger, printer of the Nuremberg Chronicle.
@araireland.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
Some of the oldest books in our collections are these volumes of Bible commentary by Nicholas of Lyra (c. 1270-1349), printed in 1497 by Anton Koberger, printer of the Nuremberg Chronicle.
@araireland.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
Siobhán McKenna's collection of 1950s Vogue magazines including a feature on Siobhán and her family, and plenty of ads for nylon tights.
A snapshot of beauty in the 1950s!
#EYABeauty #ExploreYourArchive
A snapshot of beauty in the 1950s!
#EYABeauty #ExploreYourArchive
November 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Siobhán McKenna's collection of 1950s Vogue magazines including a feature on Siobhán and her family, and plenty of ads for nylon tights.
A snapshot of beauty in the 1950s!
#EYABeauty #ExploreYourArchive
A snapshot of beauty in the 1950s!
#EYABeauty #ExploreYourArchive
Last week, we welcomed back An Tiomna Nuadh, the 1602 Irish translation of The New Testament. After undergoing major conservation work in the Muckross Bookbindery in Killarney, An Tiomna Nuadh has returned in much better condition. Look at the transformation!
#EYAConservation #ExploreYourArchive
#EYAConservation #ExploreYourArchive
November 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Last week, we welcomed back An Tiomna Nuadh, the 1602 Irish translation of The New Testament. After undergoing major conservation work in the Muckross Bookbindery in Killarney, An Tiomna Nuadh has returned in much better condition. Look at the transformation!
#EYAConservation #ExploreYourArchive
#EYAConservation #ExploreYourArchive
A batch of Republican newspapers from the early 20th century currently under processing, dating from 1916 to late 1920s.
November 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A batch of Republican newspapers from the early 20th century currently under processing, dating from 1916 to late 1920s.
The lost art of letter writing. Stamps from around the world on archive letters under cataloguing - India and South Africa to Ireland.
November 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The lost art of letter writing. Stamps from around the world on archive letters under cataloguing - India and South Africa to Ireland.
With all pets in the Áras in recent years, the first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, was also a great animal lover, with cats, dogs, horses, and more at his Ffrenchpark home in Roscommon, including these two presidential pooches. (From Hyde family photo album)
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November 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
With all pets in the Áras in recent years, the first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, was also a great animal lover, with cats, dogs, horses, and more at his Ffrenchpark home in Roscommon, including these two presidential pooches. (From Hyde family photo album)
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#Archives
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On Presidential Inauguration day today - looking back to before he was Ireland's first president, Douglas Hyde, academic, linguistic, toured the US giving talks. This scrapbook collects the US coverage of Hyde's visit to the US in 1906.
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
On Presidential Inauguration day today - looking back to before he was Ireland's first president, Douglas Hyde, academic, linguistic, toured the US giving talks. This scrapbook collects the US coverage of Hyde's visit to the US in 1906.
For culture night, the start of a paper delivered by President's Michael D. Higgins to Trinity Historical Society on the worthiness of the arts in the 21st century.
September 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
For culture night, the start of a paper delivered by President's Michael D. Higgins to Trinity Historical Society on the worthiness of the arts in the 21st century.
Indeed and always great to have you and your students work on our collections! The Long Kesh papers are another fascinating archive.
September 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Indeed and always great to have you and your students work on our collections! The Long Kesh papers are another fascinating archive.
Stamps and postmarks on letters from Uganda and Romania, early 1990s.... The art of letter writing.
September 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Stamps and postmarks on letters from Uganda and Romania, early 1990s.... The art of letter writing.
Tuesday evening openings are back! Open until 8 each Tuesday evening. Getting the Michael D Higgins collection listed, wonderful drafts and research notes from his receipt of a Doctorate of Laws at NUI Galway on 23 January 2012.
September 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Tuesday evening openings are back! Open until 8 each Tuesday evening. Getting the Michael D Higgins collection listed, wonderful drafts and research notes from his receipt of a Doctorate of Laws at NUI Galway on 23 January 2012.
University of Galway launches digital archive of Long Kesh journals
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September 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
University of Galway launches digital archive of Long Kesh journals
www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/new...
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Recently we had the pleasure of launching the Oral History Archive of the Irish Showpeople - collecting and recording memories of lives spent in Irish travelling shows, circus, fairgrounds and more:
www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/new...
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September 8, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Recently we had the pleasure of launching the Oral History Archive of the Irish Showpeople - collecting and recording memories of lives spent in Irish travelling shows, circus, fairgrounds and more:
www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/new...
www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/new...
Wonderful to have a small display of items from the Freyer collection at the Freyer Surgical Symposium 2025, introducing the archive to a new generation of surgeons. Thank you to the Discipline of Surgery.
September 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Wonderful to have a small display of items from the Freyer collection at the Freyer Surgical Symposium 2025, introducing the archive to a new generation of surgeons. Thank you to the Discipline of Surgery.
More from our oral history archive of the Galway International Arts Festival - Australian artist Patricia Piccinini has brought her unique artworks to the skies of Galway as well as the Festival Gallery with 'Skywhale' and 'We Travel Together'
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July 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
More from our oral history archive of the Galway International Arts Festival - Australian artist Patricia Piccinini has brought her unique artworks to the skies of Galway as well as the Festival Gallery with 'Skywhale' and 'We Travel Together'
digital.library.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/asset/9...
digital.library.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/asset/9...
Our oral history archive of Galway International Arts Festival captures the process, work, and ideas of the festival artists in their own words. Here is recording with playwright Enda Walsh:
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July 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Our oral history archive of Galway International Arts Festival captures the process, work, and ideas of the festival artists in their own words. Here is recording with playwright Enda Walsh:
digital.library.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/asset/8...
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digital.library.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/asset/8...
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