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Notice: Reading Room Closure From 23 October, the UCD Archives & UCD Special Collections Reading Room will close to facilitate building work on the new Cultural Heritage Centre. Our new purpose-built reading room will open from 18 Jan 2027. Appointments will be processed from 15 December 2026. 1/2

DIAS' School of Celtic Studies is pleased to announced its 2026-2027 lecture series beginning this Wednesday, 28 October at 5pm with a talk by John Gillis (TCD) on the Fadden More Psalter. Tickets can be purchased via our Eventbrite -- www.eventbrite.ie/e/lecture-th...

Re-upping this to remind postgrads in relevant disciplines at QUB, UCD and University of Oxford that the closing date for applications for these Research Assistant posts is Monday, 26 October at 9.00am. Please find more information and how to apply here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/quil...

VRTI warmly welcomes today’s announcement by Taoiseach Micheál Martin and James Lawless, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, supporting its development as Ireland’s National Platform for Digital History and Heritage from 2027. www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

A reminder that the UCD Special Collections and UCD Archives shared reading room will be closed from this Fri, 23 Oct to facilitate the building works on the new UCD #CulturalHeritage Centre. Access to collections will be temporarily unavailable after this date. @ucdarchives.bsky.social

A Symposium in Honour of Dr Deirdre McMahon Saturday 31 October 2026 The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin This event is kindly sponsored by the Faculty of Arts, MIC, and the Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin. Register: www.mic.ul.ie/MIC-Event-Re... Programme: www.mic.ul.ie/faculty-of-a...

The National Archives of Ireland will host the DLM Triennial Meeting Forum from the 3-5 of November in the Aviva Stadium. This conference provides a unique opportunity to engage with specialists in digital archiving from across Europe.

This Wednesday!! Please join us for the first lecture of The ISA Autumn Lecture series. Details below and via Eventbrite!

View a new display of items from UCD Special Collections, celebrating UCD Global Week (19-22 October), now just next to the entrance to the James Joyce Library. @ucdarchives.bsky.social @ucdglobal.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdischool.bsky.social @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social

Closure Notice: All five UCD Libraries will close on Wednesday, 14 October 2026. Online library services will continue to be available. @ucdscience.bsky.social @ucdischool.bsky.social @ucdarchives.bsky.social @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social

Heather Faulkner: "UNHCR Archives: A History of Access - is Access Now History?" refugeehistory.org/blog/2026/9/...

We congratulate poet Paul Muldoon on receiving UCD's highest honour - the UCD Ulysses Medal.🏅 Muldoon has read his poetry for the UCD Irish Poetry Reading Archive, & in 2022 was commissioned to write a poem for the Poetry as Commemoration project. Here is "The Belfast Pogrom: Some Observations".

Bound without restraint...in the latest UCD #CulturalHeritage Collections blog post Claire Dunne takes us on a vibrant tour of the artists' books held in UCD Special Collections. ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/09/29/b... @ucdarchives.bsky.social @ucdpress.bsky.social

ISA Autumn Lecture Series 2026🍂📢 Join us on 21 October for ‘Opening the Record: Delivering the 1926 Census Online’ with Zoe Reid, The National Archives, Ireland. 📍 Dublin City Library & Archive ⏰ 6pm refreshments|6:30pm lecture 🎟️ Register here: bit.ly/4rFyadW #IrishHistory #1926Census #Genealogy

ATTN Registered postgrads at QUB, @ucddublin.bsky.social , @ox.ac.uk only: The Quill Project is recruiting three Research Assistants to support the digital humanities intiative, Writing Peace. The successful UCD candidate will work in UCDA. www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/quil...

What did the Normans ever do for us? And what has IMC done for the Normans? @jmarshallmed and Paul Dryburgh (TNA, UK) explore original records from the period after the #Norman invasion of Ireland for #HistFest2026. Introduced by Dr Audrey Whitty (@nlireland). www.irishmanuscripts.ie/foh26

From 28 Sept - 19 Oct, Level 2 of the James Joyce Library will be temporarily closed, and collections held on Level 2 (400-999) will be available through a retrieval service only. For more information please visit the Library Capital Development Project webpage: www.ucd.ie/library/cont...

The Moss Twomey Papers are available for consultation by appointment in our Reading Room. www.ucd.ie/archives/col...

15 Sept 1607: At sea, the #Ulster earls and their party encounter bad weather on the west coast which would last for 13 days (The Ó Cianáin eyewitness diary @ucdarchives.bsky.social )

4 Sept 1607: Flight of the #Ulster Earls of #Tyrone Ó Néill & #Tyrconnell Ó Domhnaill begins #otd from Lough Swilly. The sole eyewitness account of their long journey to Rome by Tadhg Ó Cianáin is in now in @ucdarchives.bsky.social as part of the Franciscan deposit.

Our Doc of the Month is now online. Marion O’Malley writes to Richard Mulcahy in 1923 referring to her three sons, all of whom are imprisoned and on hunger strike warning Mulcahy that should any of her sons die, she will “take steps to have you indicted in their murder”. www.ucd.ie/archives/col...

Really proud of this volume of Analecta Hibernica, periodical of the Irish Manuscripts Commission. As editor I have encouraged more Irish language texts and more women as editors - thinking about the sources for Irish history in their wonderful diversity

The Annals of Innisfallen, which chronicle life in Ireland from before the arrival of St Patrick until the 15th century, will go on public display in this country for the first time 40 years today, in an exhibition that will open at UCC

What's happening in the James Joyce Library? We have updated our Capital Development Plan project page on the UCD Library website. All current details of Phase 2 stages of building works are at www.ucd.ie/library/cont... @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdarchives.bsky.social @ucdresearch.bsky.social

Next year the NFC will relocate from the Newman Building, where the collection has been held since the 1970s, to a new Cultural Heritage Centre. To ensure safe transfer of the collection, in-person services will be reduced starting in Sept 2026. See www.ucd.ie/irishfolklor... for full details.

On Wed in the James Joyce Library a full house audience was treated to a fascinating #HeritageWeek presentation by Jonny Dillon, Director of @bealoideasucd.bsky.social, & Julia Poirier, Book & Paper Conservator. This culturally significant collection will move into its new home in the JJL next year.

In the latest UCD Library #CulturalHeritage Collections blog post Hannah Matthews looks at the philosophical similarities between 2 items by artists Jack B. Yeats and Róisín Stack, published a century apart & held in UCD Special Collections. Read at ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/08/20/a...

Looking forward to Jonny's and Julia's talk on preparing to move the National Folklore Collection to new purpose built accommodation: The Next Chapter, Preparing the National Folklore Collection for Relocation to UCD Library.

1/2 OPEN CALL: UCD Library seeks photographers and lens-based artists for a commission capturing the National Folklore Collection's move to its new home. Full details at www.ucd.ie/irishfolklor... @visualartistsirl.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social 📸Dragana Jurišić

Archivist Sam McGrath examines an attempted massacre of five IRA prisoners in County Kerry on 7 March 1923. Same day as Ballyseedy and Countess Bridge. New MSPC release contains files relating to 3 survivors while the file of another is already out. militarypensions.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/r...

"A father's and mother's anxiety for their dear one's safety" : a journey home in time of war, examines a series of letters that form part of the Murphy Family Papers (UCDA P141). Read the post here: buff.ly/1I4Rj8v #UCDCulturalHeritage #UCDLibrary #UCDArchives #UniversityCollegeDublin

The latest Cultural Heritage blog post by UCD Archives, Principal Archivist, Kate Manning is now available to read on the UCD Library Cultural Heritage Collections blog.

Our Document of the Month is now online... Items concerning W.B. Yeats from 1935 and 1939. www.ucd.ie/archives/col...

Join @bealoideasucd.bsky.social & UCD Access & Lifelong Learning during National Heritage Week for a joint presentation on the preparation of the National Folklore Collection for relocation to UCD James Joyce Library. 📆Wed, 19 Aug 10.30-11.30am Details & book at www.heritageweek.ie/event-listin...

If anyone is considering editing something from our collections, we will happily supply a digital copy at no cost. Please contact Kate (archives at ucd dot ie).

The UNHCR archives in Geneva are at risk; reading room already closed - and there's a much broader 'humanitarian archive emergency' ongoing with aid budget cuts. www.aretenews.com/unhcr-refuge...

UCD Archive & Records Management MA students Kat Guiry & Lydia Flanagan put coursework into practice preparing @bealoideasucd.bsky.social for a big move. Read about their experiences at ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/07/16/i... Thank you @heritagecouncil.ie for this internship funding!

We are very sad to learn about the death of Prof. Richard Cox, a distinguished member of our profession, an influential teacher, and theorist. He made several visits to Ireland, and was Kate's mentor. Our deepest condolences to his family. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

Our Document of the Month is now online: a photograph of the first mobile library in Ireland which was set up by Feargus Murphy, librarian in Lismore, Co. Waterford. www.ucd.ie/archives/col...

#DIBLives #OTD 1922 a huge explosion at the Public Records Office in the Four Courts destroyed centuries of Irish administrative, legal & genealogical records. @virtualtreasury.bsky.social has spent years recreating many of these records & made them freely available to the public. virtualtreasury.ie

Almost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. The release of the records will cover seven centuries of Irish history and will make over half a million documents free and permanently available to the public

#OTD 1922 the Record Treasury within the Four Courts was destroyed. Ernie O’Malley, garrisoned inside, later wrote in The Singing Flame: 'The yard was littered with chunks of masonry and smouldering records; pieces of white paper were gyrating in the upper air like seagulls.'

We announced recently the transfer of an important 17th c. Irish Franciscan manuscript to @ucdarchives.bsky.social Read about the transfer of the manuscript & its digitisation, part of a partnership with the Irish Franciscans going back to 1997. ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/06/23/1...

Delighted to see another UCD–OFM manuscript now available on Irish Script On Screen 📖