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An All-Island & International Legacy from Decade of Centenaries
Core partners: National Archives Ireland, The National Archives UK, Public Record Office Northern Ireland, Irish Manuscripts Commission, Library Trinity College Dublin
An All-Island & International Legacy from Decade of Centenaries
Core partners: National Archives Ireland, The National Archives UK, Public Record Office Northern Ireland, Irish Manuscripts Commission, Library Trinity College Dublin
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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
🗓️ Tues25 November 2025
🕠 6:45 – 9:00 PM
📍 Mayfair Library, Kilkenny
Looking forward to seeing everyone tonight in Kilkenny for our local roadshow and the launch of Keith Busby's The Statute of Kilkenny (IMC)!
🕠 6:45 – 9:00 PM
📍 Mayfair Library, Kilkenny
@kilkennycoco.bsky.social
🕠 6:45 – 9:00 PM
📍 Mayfair Library, Kilkenny
@kilkennycoco.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Looking forward to seeing everyone tonight in Kilkenny for our local roadshow and the launch of Keith Busby's The Statute of Kilkenny (IMC)!
🕠 6:45 – 9:00 PM
📍 Mayfair Library, Kilkenny
@kilkennycoco.bsky.social
🕠 6:45 – 9:00 PM
📍 Mayfair Library, Kilkenny
@kilkennycoco.bsky.social
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A @virtualtreasury.bsky.social panel, 'Digital Approaches to the History of Ireland in the Age of Revolutions'.
The speakers introduce the VRTI, discuss the technology behind the Treasury, and demonstrate how it can be used to study Ireland in the Age of Revolutions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po3T...
The speakers introduce the VRTI, discuss the technology behind the Treasury, and demonstrate how it can be used to study Ireland in the Age of Revolutions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po3T...
Digital Approaches to the History of Ireland in the Age of Revolutions
YouTube video by Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A @virtualtreasury.bsky.social panel, 'Digital Approaches to the History of Ireland in the Age of Revolutions'.
The speakers introduce the VRTI, discuss the technology behind the Treasury, and demonstrate how it can be used to study Ireland in the Age of Revolutions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po3T...
The speakers introduce the VRTI, discuss the technology behind the Treasury, and demonstrate how it can be used to study Ireland in the Age of Revolutions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po3T...
Reposted by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
A second keynote from Prof. Nicholas Canny, 'Interconnections between Ireland and North America in the Era of Revolutions, c1760-c1848'.
A little known Irish book on the revolution is used to weave together a sprawling story of a connected revolutionary Atlantic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Ju...
A little known Irish book on the revolution is used to weave together a sprawling story of a connected revolutionary Atlantic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Ju...
Ireland and the American Revolution Keynote Address 2 | Prof. Nicholas Canny MRIA
YouTube video by Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
A second keynote from Prof. Nicholas Canny, 'Interconnections between Ireland and North America in the Era of Revolutions, c1760-c1848'.
A little known Irish book on the revolution is used to weave together a sprawling story of a connected revolutionary Atlantic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Ju...
A little known Irish book on the revolution is used to weave together a sprawling story of a connected revolutionary Atlantic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Ju...
Reposted by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Highlighting these one last time:
A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’.
Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4F...
A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’.
Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4F...
Ireland and the American Revolution Keynote Address | Prof Eliga Gould
YouTube video by Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Highlighting these one last time:
A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’.
Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4F...
A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’.
Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4F...
☁️ Before cloud storage, there was… Thomas Innes of Inistioge. In 1831 he hand-copied the entire parish census into an old enumerator’s notebook, for no clear reason. Good thing he did: the original was destroyed in 1922.
![VRTI M 1/4 — Census of the population of the estates of William Tighe esquire in the county of Kilkenny, taken in 1831, and copied from the government returns [Inistioge]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lpeuvpzstxbn4zomtnfzvwa/bafkreibx7eh557bsb3b345s4twv77sxchciyax3kuq3yutkcoqrhfiv4ra@jpeg)
![VRTI M 1/4 — Census of the population of the estates of William Tighe esquire in the county of Kilkenny, taken in 1831, and copied from the government returns [Inistioge]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lpeuvpzstxbn4zomtnfzvwa/bafkreihmlccwrqr2lzzf2yh6c4ub3qwixmhwcm6v7ol6n6gijcbn2fmuku@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
☁️ Before cloud storage, there was… Thomas Innes of Inistioge. In 1831 he hand-copied the entire parish census into an old enumerator’s notebook, for no clear reason. Good thing he did: the original was destroyed in 1922.
#WomenInRebellion We hope you've enjoyed this series (curated by our colleague @timvrti.bsky.social)! These voices — from courtrooms, safehouses, prison cells, and family rooms — reveal women as actors, witnesses, and narrators in the 1798 Rebellion.
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
#WomenInRebellion We hope you've enjoyed this series (curated by our colleague @timvrti.bsky.social)! These voices — from courtrooms, safehouses, prison cells, and family rooms — reveal women as actors, witnesses, and narrators in the 1798 Rebellion.
⚜️ Hear ye, hear ye!
In the year of our Lord 1392, James Butler, Earl of Ormond, did release and quitclaim his noble castle of Kilkenny.
In the year of our Lord 2025, the VRTI returns to Kilkenny to reveal this very record — and to launch Professor Keith Busby’s The Statute of Kilkenny (IMC).
In the year of our Lord 1392, James Butler, Earl of Ormond, did release and quitclaim his noble castle of Kilkenny.
In the year of our Lord 2025, the VRTI returns to Kilkenny to reveal this very record — and to launch Professor Keith Busby’s The Statute of Kilkenny (IMC).
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
⚜️ Hear ye, hear ye!
In the year of our Lord 1392, James Butler, Earl of Ormond, did release and quitclaim his noble castle of Kilkenny.
In the year of our Lord 2025, the VRTI returns to Kilkenny to reveal this very record — and to launch Professor Keith Busby’s The Statute of Kilkenny (IMC).
In the year of our Lord 1392, James Butler, Earl of Ormond, did release and quitclaim his noble castle of Kilkenny.
In the year of our Lord 2025, the VRTI returns to Kilkenny to reveal this very record — and to launch Professor Keith Busby’s The Statute of Kilkenny (IMC).
#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...
🔗 Read it here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...
![NAI CSO/REB/620/51/91
Jane Montgomery (Co. Down), memorial to Marquess Cornwallis [no date, post-1798]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lpeuvpzstxbn4zomtnfzvwa/bafkreicqfwwkqp3rpyh3r7zam5lk7mgqsmffy2ilkluu2uwezlzibq3wte@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
#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...
🔗 Read it here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...
📣 The keynotes and a VRTI panel from last month's 'Ireland and the American Revolution' conference hosted with @tlrhub.bsky.social are now available here:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Ireland and the American Revolution
A two-day conference organised by The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
📣 The keynotes and a VRTI panel from last month's 'Ireland and the American Revolution' conference hosted with @tlrhub.bsky.social are now available here:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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...
😊
👀 our Curated collection
www.virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll...
📢 Shout out to funders bsky.app/profile/ria.ie
&
📷TCD Library bsky.app/profile/tcdd...
😊
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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...
😊
👀 our Curated collection
www.virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll...
📢 Shout out to funders bsky.app/profile/ria.ie
&
📷TCD Library bsky.app/profile/tcdd...
😊
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 😀👍
And very kindly linking to our free downloadable guidebook:
People, Place and Power www.virtualtreasury.ie/publications 😀👍
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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 😀👍
And very kindly linking to our free downloadable guidebook:
People, Place and Power www.virtualtreasury.ie/publications 😀👍
🔔 WANTED — Dead or Alive! (1694)
A £50 reward offered for ten “Notorious Rebels and Traitors” in Kilkenny — or just bring the head. 😳
Join the VRTI Roadshow in Kilkenny on 25 Nov to see this chilling notice and explore how law, memory, and violence show up in the archives.
A £50 reward offered for ten “Notorious Rebels and Traitors” in Kilkenny — or just bring the head. 😳
Join the VRTI Roadshow in Kilkenny on 25 Nov to see this chilling notice and explore how law, memory, and violence show up in the archives.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🔔 WANTED — Dead or Alive! (1694)
A £50 reward offered for ten “Notorious Rebels and Traitors” in Kilkenny — or just bring the head. 😳
Join the VRTI Roadshow in Kilkenny on 25 Nov to see this chilling notice and explore how law, memory, and violence show up in the archives.
A £50 reward offered for ten “Notorious Rebels and Traitors” in Kilkenny — or just bring the head. 😳
Join the VRTI Roadshow in Kilkenny on 25 Nov to see this chilling notice and explore how law, memory, and violence show up in the archives.
Reposted by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Me when I find a new census transcript.
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Me when I find a new census transcript.
Reposted by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Postcard of the Four Courts, Dublin (after restoration as the publisher is so keen to point out) - note the scaffolding between the columns. #Dublin
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Postcard of the Four Courts, Dublin (after restoration as the publisher is so keen to point out) - note the scaffolding between the columns. #Dublin
#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...
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]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lpeuvpzstxbn4zomtnfzvwa/bafkreibo7hnvow2behn66iyxmnvvnyczh25klfcxq7ofjyzya7kxta6mmi@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
#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...
Read her unflinching words here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...
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
🗓️ Tues25 November 2025
🕠 6:45 – 9:00 PM
📍 Mayfair Library, Kilkenny
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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
🗓️ Tues25 November 2025
🕠 6:45 – 9:00 PM
📍 Mayfair Library, Kilkenny
Reposted by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
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
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.
Reposted by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
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
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
Reposted by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
October 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
👻 🧙♀️🎃 Molyneux Papers (TCD MS 883): Examinations & depositions taken in Co. Antrim in 1710 respecting witches and witchcraft — including testimony from Mary Dunbar, who has been "in a most grievous and violent manner / tormented and afflicted with Witches".
www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/TCD-MS-...
www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/TCD-MS-...
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
👻 🧙♀️🎃 Molyneux Papers (TCD MS 883): Examinations & depositions taken in Co. Antrim in 1710 respecting witches and witchcraft — including testimony from Mary Dunbar, who has been "in a most grievous and violent manner / tormented and afflicted with Witches".
www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/TCD-MS-...
www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/TCD-MS-...
Modesty prevents us commenting on this great collaboration😊 virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/g...
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Modesty prevents us commenting on this great collaboration😊 virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/g...
#WomeninRebellion — Intercepted love & politics: In 1797, a letter from Lady Pamela Fitzgerald to her husband Lord Edward was intercepted. It’s tender, witty, and full of republican camaraderie — proof that love and politics were entwined.
Read the letter here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...
Read the letter here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...
![NAI CSO/REB/620/15/3/18 (Pamela to Lord Edward Fitzgerald), Tuesday, 10 January... [Tuesday, 10 January 1797]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lpeuvpzstxbn4zomtnfzvwa/bafkreidvs2uz2wkwltq3ya4dmvjklyp7tcob7gzcegcmhd6vuz33e6at2a@jpeg)
October 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
#WomeninRebellion — Intercepted love & politics: In 1797, a letter from Lady Pamela Fitzgerald to her husband Lord Edward was intercepted. It’s tender, witty, and full of republican camaraderie — proof that love and politics were entwined.
Read the letter here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...
Read the letter here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...
Reposted by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
A fun little piece I did on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, with some interesting snippets from the RIA collection, for your delectation!
Inside Sheridan Le Fanu's spooky world of Gothic ghosts and ghouls. The writer's early life in Dublin and reading material give valuable insights into his ghostly tales and supernatural horror stories, write @rothweeee.bsky.social & Ailbhe Rogers @ria.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Inside Sheridan Le Fanu's spooky world of Gothic ghosts & ghouls
The writer's early life in Dublin and reading material give valuable insights into his ghostly tales and supernatural horror stories
www.rte.ie
October 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM
A fun little piece I did on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, with some interesting snippets from the RIA collection, for your delectation!
On Wednesday, 22 October 2025, the VRTI joined the Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Manuscripts Commission to launch the new Guild of St Anne Gold Seam, one of Dublin’s most important historical records.
You can read more about the collection here: virtualtreasury.ie/news/ria-imc...
You can read more about the collection here: virtualtreasury.ie/news/ria-imc...
October 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
On Wednesday, 22 October 2025, the VRTI joined the Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Manuscripts Commission to launch the new Guild of St Anne Gold Seam, one of Dublin’s most important historical records.
You can read more about the collection here: virtualtreasury.ie/news/ria-imc...
You can read more about the collection here: virtualtreasury.ie/news/ria-imc...
Reposted by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Watching the old Parliament building/now Bank of Ireland get some new headwear from the desk…
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Watching the old Parliament building/now Bank of Ireland get some new headwear from the desk…