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Abraham 'Bram' Stoker (d. #OTD 1912) published his Gothic masterpiece 'Dracula' in 1897. A decade after his death, F.W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' (1922) was the first of many film adaptations of Dracula which have kept Stoker's creation in popular consciousness. www.dib.ie/biography/st...
An early modern map of Dublin. Colours are beige, green with some reds and blues
An even earlier Census from 1650s Dublin detailing Irish names & physical descriptions of women 💚 Check out this new VOICES blog ahead of the 1926 Census release: voicesproject.ie/impact/blog-... @tcddublin.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social
For her #OnePlaceStudy of the Woodlark (passengers arriving at Wellington, 1874), @cathyclarke77.bsky.social Catherine Clarke has just published a profile of Honora McCarthy (1853 - 1902). Honora made many appearances in court – and therefore also in the newspapers. #OnePlaceWednesday
Photograph of damaged document with various holes.
Close up of holes on a document.
Photograph of repaired document, where holes have been filled and the paper has been stabalised.
Photograph of the reverse of the repaired document.
Here is a before and after of a document our #ArchiveConservation team worked on recently! The paper was so delicate, touching it made it turn into dust, but the team stabilised this record, making it available for researchers to use again. #Archive30
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At 23.40pm #OTD 1912 RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean. More than 1500 people died when the ship sank 2hrs 40mins later. Irish priest Fr Francis Browne captured some of the best-known pictures of the ship before she sailed from Cobh. www.dib.ie/biography/br...
Advertisement in the Dublin Gazette of 9 February 1754 for: A voyage to the moon: with some account of the solar world. A comical romance. Done from the French of M. Cyrano de Bergerac. By Mr. Derrick. The book was available from Richard James at the Newton's Head, Dame Street, Dublin.
Title page of : A voyage to the moon: with some account of the solar world. A comical romance. Done from the French of M. Cyrano de Bergerac. By Mr. Derrick. 1754 On Archive.org https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-voyage-to-the-moon-wi_cyrano-de-bergerac_1754
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Feb. 1754, available at Newton's Head, Dame Street, Dublin: 'A Voyage to the Moon' by C. de Bergerac (trans. Mr Derrick)🌝🌔
incl. a connection with Gulliver's Travels!
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📚 Make sure to visit our new exhibition, Ink & Innovation and come along to our curator's lunchtime talk and tour on 28th April www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...
Explore the National Library of Ireland with Director Dr Audrey Whitty.
📅 Thursday, 9 April at 6pm:
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🏛️ Meet in the Front Hall of National Library of Ireland, 7/8 Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
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One of the most decorated officers in NYPD history with sixty-five medals and citations, including the NYPD medal of valour, Dubliner John Timoney displayed a compassionate morality in his concern for the victims of crime, especially sexual and violent crime. www.dib.ie/biography/ti...
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Artist Barbara Warren's paintings contain a meditative quality, occasionally incorporating dreamlike elements. Her elongated human figures – passive, reflective and largely faceless – communicated her recurring theme of loneliness and alienation. www.dib.ie/biography/wa...
For #WorldHealthDay - from Dr William Wilde's Table of Deaths, 1841 Census of Ireland. Almost 100 causes of death, some surprising to us today others, sadly, still widespread killers. @csoireland.bsky.social @who.int
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IGRS Top Research Tip #201: If your ancestors came from the greater Ballymena area of Co Antrim, then you’ll be interested in these 17th to 20th century gravestone inscriptions: www.exploreyourroots.co.uk
Homepage of the Medieval Institute's Research Blog: Research Blog: “Gold among the Ashes: The Deeds of the Guild of St. Anne” showing the Irish Historic Towns Atlas of medieval Dublin.
Map of Medieval Dublin, from Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 11 Dublin, part I, to 1610 by H.B. Clarke (Dublin, 2002)
Wonderful blog from the @notredame.bsky.social Medieval Institute on our Deeds of the Guild of Saint Anne collaboration with @rialibrary.bsky.social + @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social 😀
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🌟 Join our team: @heritagecouncil.ie/@nlireland.bsky.social #Conservation Internship 2026 🌟
➡️ More info about the role + application form: www.nli.ie/about-us/wor...
📅 Please note that the closing date for receipt of applications is 10th April 2026, at 3pm. #jobfairy
#Nationwide marks 100 years of The Plough and the Stars by #SeánOCasey, now on RTÉ Player: www.rte.ie/player/serie...
From 1926 @abbeytheatre.bsky.social riots to modern masterpiece, it still shapes Irish theatre. Crónán Ó Doibhlin & Audrey Whitty (NLI Director) explore O’Casey’s archive + legacy 🎭
Record of a property transaction from 25 January 1336. Peter de Wilby, Clerk, grants to Walter le Gret, clock maker (orlager)a piece of ground on St Patrick's Street Dublin, between peter's land on the south and Walter Flint's on the north ... From the Royal Society fo Antiquaries of Ireland, Calendar of Archbishop Alen's Register Item 452, p 203.
Wall Clock with Automation, Southern Germany 1550/1600. Iron, bell metal, brass, gilt copper, and polychrome decoration (35.56 × 15.24 × 16.51 cm). Milwaukee Art Museum, Purchase, with funds in memory of Betty Croasdaile and John E. Julien M2002.182. Photographer credit: John Nienhuis. https://sites.uwm.edu/nosonovs/2019/08/10/how-clocks-worked-without-a-pendulum-in-the-14th-century/
The clocks going forward today made us wonder - what's the earliest reference to a clock in the VRTI? 🤔🕰️
How about this from 1336 - in the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland! A clock-maker on St Patrick's Street, Dublin 😀
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🙂📘 Great turnout this pm for the launch of Síle McGuckian's book Worse than War: Anglesey and Ireland 1828-33. So much more than 'pre-Famine Ireland' 👍.
Beautiful and fascinating map of London.
Rocque's maps of Dublin and environs 1756-62 are available on @virtualtreasury.bsky.social
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#DIBLives Born #OTD 1731, Elizabeth Rawdon's Dublin residence was described as ‘the gathering place of people of genius.’ In 1783 she was the 1st woman published in 'Archaeologia' when she submitted a discourse on the remains of a human skeleton discovered on her estate. www.dib.ie/biography/ra...
Ireland’s population chart remains a wild one to look at. The country has still not recovered from the Great Famine (1845-52).
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"Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren’t go a-hunting
For fear of little men..." ('The fairies' by William Allingham)
One of Ballyshannon's most famous sons, poet William Allingham was born #OTD 1824. www.dib.ie/biography/al...
We were delighted to have the opportunity to take the MPhil “Lived Experiences of Early Modern Women” class to view different manuscripts in the @tcdlibrary Manuscripts & Archives. Special thank you to Dr. John Gillis and Estelle Gittins for sharing their work and insight into the collection!
#DIBLives Armed with a blunderbuss, a brace of pistols, and a dagger, highwayman William Crotty (d. #OTD 1742) was a deadly shot with both hands. He was popular with the people of Waterford who claimed he killed only in self-defence & shared his spoils with the poor. www.dib.ie/biography/cr...
Congratulations Jessie Buckley on her big win! Great to see a focus on 17th century women. Check out this article on Irish women alive during the time of Hamnet 💚
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Masthead from the Dublin Gazette March 1788 https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/DGZ-1788-5047
News about a St Patrick's Day ball at Dublin Castle in 1788. The date was moved as the feast day fell during Holy Week. Women are asked not to wear hooped dresses and men to attend in full dress. The gentry may send to the Chamberlain's office for tickets. Dublin Gazette March 1788 Image: Oireachtas library
The installation banquet of the Knights of St Patrick in St. Patrick's Hall of Dublin Castle, Dublin 1783, by John Keyes Sherwin Image: National Gallery of Ireland, Creative Commons A group of men standing at a banquet table, in very elaborate head-gear with ostrich plumes, and wearing St Patrick's Blue cloaks. A large crowd of women and men look on from the sides, and from a gallery above. The scenes is St Patrick's Hall, Dublin Castle.
Plans for #SaintPatricksDay 1788 at Dublin Castle.
Cotillons + Country Dances, no Minuets.
Ladies - Irish-made dresses please, but no hoops.
(What is 'full dress' for the gentlemen? 🤔🙂)
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'In you each virtue brighter shines,
But my poetic vein declines;
My harp will soon in vain be strung,
And all your virtues left unsung...'
Each year on her birthday Jonathan Swift composed a poem to Esther Johnson, aka 'Stella'. She was born #OTD 1681.
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Portion of a map showing Lough Derg and St Patrick's Purgatory, and part of Lough Erne. https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/LBC-EM-1 Eryn. Hiberniae, Britannicae Insvlae, Nova descriptio. Irlandt. (1572) West is at the top of this map. Courtesy of the L Brown Collection.
Portion of a map showing Lough Derg and St Patrick's Purgatory, and part of Lough Erne. https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/LBC-EM-12 Hyberniae Novissima Description 1591 West is at the top of this map. Courtesy of the L Brown Collection.
Portion of a map showing Lough Derg and St Patrick's Purgatory, and part of Lough Erne. https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/LBC-EM-14 Irlandia Regnum (1591) Courtesy of the L Brown Collection.
Portion of a map showing Lough Derg and St Patrick's Purgatory, and part of Lough Erne. https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/LBC-EM-46 The Province Ulster described (1614) Courtesy of the L Brown Collection.
Ahead of the #StPatricksDay parade + celebrations ☘️ 😀 how about some purgatory?
St Patrick's Purgatory, Lough Derg #Donegal has been a place of pilgrimage for centuries. These beautiful early maps gave it remarkable prominence!
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#DIBLives Charles Boycott (b. #OTD 1832) believed Irish peasants were prone to idleness and required firm handling. Following an attempt to evict tenants he was subjected to the ostracism advocated by Parnell and the word 'Boycott' entered the English language. www.dib.ie/biography/bo...
#DIBLives Placed in St Vincent's Industrial School, Goldenbridge at the age of 4, nurse and advocate for survivors of childhood abuse Christine Buckley (d. #OTD 2014) was assigned the number ‘89’, which replaced her name for the 13 years she was a resident in St Vincent's. www.dib.ie/biography/bu...
Census of Ireland, 1766
Mrs White's house in Rosemary Lane (St Michael's parish), home to '50 Papists' in 1766. Catholic population of Rosemary Lane in 1766, 128. Location of Rosemary Lane (now gone) shown in image. Link to VRTI for St Michael's: virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CE...
