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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
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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
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LBC Townland/2/18 - Index map for the townland survey of County Limerick. Barony and Parish boundaries highlighted in colour (1835). Courtesy of the L. Brown Collection. Contrast enhanced.
January 19, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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Today is #NollaignamBan so we thought we'd feature Mary Whitshed, from the Guild of St Anne Collection. Her seal below was impressed onto a grant from the Guild for a plot of ground in Cooke Street, Dublin, 1723 — just behind St. Audoen's Church in the Liberties!

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RIA GSA/25/1 — Deeds of the Guild of St Anne, 9 George I, Item 1 (13 February 1723)
January 6, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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The second, an article titled “How to Reconstruct a Lost Archive in the Digital Age: The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, The Fire of 1922, and the Archival Loss and Recovery Model (ALARM)” was published in the Belgian journal ABB (www.archibib.be/EN/objectives)
December 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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The first, “Courting the Past: Reconstructing Ireland’s Lost Legal Records, circa 1300–1922” appears as a chapter of Law and Constitutional Change, edited by David Capper, Conor McCormick, and Norma Dawson (307–40. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025).
December 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Sound the ALARM ‼️ 📢 Two new works authored by VRTI team members have recently been published!

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December 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Provost Dr Linda Doyle presented the award to Co-Director Ciarán Wallace at an enjoyable event on 5 December, pictured above.

Read more here: www.tcd.ie/civicengagem...
December 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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The VRTI Team were delighted to be awarded @trinitycivic.bsky.social's Civically Engaged Research Award for 2026 for a public history project titled ‘Mapping Memories’.

#PublicHistory #DigitalHistory #ParticipatoryHistory #CivicEngagement #HistoryfromBelow @historytcd.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Thanks for following this week's #TNAConnections series with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy.

The many records shared by TNA on the VRTI can be found on TNA's browse page here: virtualtreasury.ie/browse/The_N...
December 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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#TNAConnections In September, we collaborated with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy on a series of three talks called 'Finding Ireland' using TNA records shared with the Virtual Treasury. These can be viewed as a playlist on our YouTube channel:

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The National Archives building at Kew, London. Source: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, Wikimedia Commons
December 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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The HO 100 series is especially important as it helps to replace the many records of the Irish Chief Secretary’s Office (CSO), destroyed in the Four Courts in 1922. The CSO oversaw the entire government machinery of Dublin Castle, acting as the executive government for Ireland.
TNA HO 100/71.
December 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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#TNAConnections The Home Office (Ireland) Correspondence held at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy — also known as the HO 100 series — letters written by high-ranking officials in Dublin Castle, addressed to the central administration in London.

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Ordnance Survey map of 1847. Image taken from Frank Cullen's Book on the 1847 Dublin Ordnance Survey maps.
December 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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#TNAConnections The Philadelphia Papers — In the 1700s a historian took six volumes from Dublin Castle to write a history of the Plantation of Ulster, but he never gave them back. Later they found their way across the Atlantic to the Library Company of Philadelphia.
December 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Our keen-eyed Francophiles might be interested in VRTI MedEx 3/1395/20, the translated submission of Muircheartach Óg Mac Aonghusa, which begins: 'I, Maurice Magennis, become liegeman of the lord Richard, King of England and France and Lord of Ireland, sovereign lord of me and of my nation..."
TNA E 159/171/Recorda/T/20/8 — Submission of Niall Óg O'Neill (Ó Néill) [Nellanus son of O Nel] to Richard II, rot. 20 dorse
December 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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#TNAConnections Our Curated Collection, 'Irish Kings and English Rulers', focuses on the complex relationship between municpal Irish, medieval kings and the English crown. This collection features many documents shared by @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy.

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Artist: Simon Francois Ravenet (1706 - 1774) Title: Richard II, 1367 - 1400. King of England Source: National Galleries of Scotland
December 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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The variety of documents ranges from large parchment rolls, recording payments into and out of the treasury, down to small slips of parchment with seals, that were kept as receipts for individual payments.
White leather pouch for a receipt roll, that is a parchment roll recording revenue received by the Irish exchequer for the years 29 and 30 Edward III (1355–7). It was carried to the English exchequer at Westminster as part of the process of audit. This and other bags would have conveyed associated writs and receipts - like the tally sticks (TNA, E 101/243/11).
December 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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@nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy holds almost a thousand items containing references to tens of thousands of people and places in Ireland across two centuries. They were written in Ireland by the Irish exchequer between 1270 and 1446, and then sent for audit in England.
December 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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#TNAConnections Dating back to the 13th century and continuing for nearly 200 years, the records of the medieval Irish exchequer are gathered in another of our Gold Seams, called Royal Revenue, 1270–1450.

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Royal clerks often used images (often cartoons) as instantly recognisable common reference markers. Other examples include pointing fingers, heads and faces, animals or, for the Welsh in the same volume, of an archer wearing just one shoe. Liber A, Hibernia (TNA, E 36/274).
December 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Delve into letters like this one from General Monck [afterwards duke of Albemarle] to the committee of council for the Post Office, recommending Mr. Evan Vaughan (postmaster in Dublin) for continued service (1660).

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TNA SP 63/307/2/263 (General Monck [afterwards duke of Albemarle] to the committee of council for the Post Office: certifies Evan Vaughan's painfulness and honesty: he has arranged posts in Ireland and has been to Scotland in the public service.)
December 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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#TNAConnections Another great Gold Seam you can explore on the VRTI is that of the State Papers Ireland, 1660–1715 (TNA SP 63), an assembled collection of official letters, private papers, and correspondence that is held at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy.

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December 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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#TNAConnections Have you had a chance to explore our newest Gold Seam, Parchment Conquest (1171–1307)?

150 years ago Henry Savage Sweetman published the first of five volumes that would become foundational to the study of medieval Ireland.

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December 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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This week we'll be highlighting our collaborations with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy in a series called #TNAConnections.

Check out this video introducing some of the historical collections shared by TNA on the VRTI to jump in and explore Ireland's past! youtu.be/gclHIjJSBW8
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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We are now up to 98,000 (!) names recovered from the lost censuses of Ireland.

We have found people from every county - and the detective work continues… 👀📜🔎

Search for your family between 1766 and 1891 on our Population Portal
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Image from National Library of Ireland. Carts, dealers, etc, in foreground, crowded grandstand in background Call No: STP_1109 http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/8423486930/ Image from National Library of Ireland: Crowd, including soldiers and others in stand, viewing event possibly race meeting Call No: STP_1108 http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/8422393425/
December 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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"The ascenders of the first line are extended and feature extra loops and ticks. The scribe plays with letters and decoration; the ascenders of the s in 'universi' and the S in 'Stafford' also contain decorative S figures. Both voids in the S of 'Stafford' contain the letter S as well."
Detail of RIA GSA/9/81 – Deeds of the Guild of St Anne, 28 Henry VI, Item 81 (4 March 1450). Document Type: Power of Attorney Detail of RIA GSA/9/81 – Deeds of the Guild of St Anne, 28 Henry VI, Item 81 (4 March 1450). Document Type: Power of Attorney
December 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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This deed from the Guild of St Anne Gold Seam contains some beautiful Gothic #paleography.

From Theresa O'Byrne: "The N has an open rose in the center, and the initial stroke ends in light, curled, foliate sprays."

#ExploreYourArchive #EYAMedieval

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RIA GSA/9/81 – Deeds of the Guild of St Anne, 28 Henry VI, Item 81 (4 March 1450). Document Type: Power of Attorney Content: Joan, who was wife of John Stafford, baker, deceased, and David Rowe, executors of the testament of the said John Stafford, make John Brailis of Dublin, clerk, their attorney to place Robert Burnell, Master, William Grampe and William Graas, Wardens of the Guild in possession of two tenements in St Audoen’s parish (1450).
December 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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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

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November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM