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The ISA Spring Lecture Series presents 'How to start a new archives service: experience of the CIÉ Group Archives', delivered by Kevin Forkan, Group Archivist at CIÉ.

Where? Dublin City Library and Archive

When? Refreshments from 6pm and lecture from 6:30pm

Register below!

Come and work with us! (Well slightly adjacent to us but we are all rowing in the same boat!)

Identity Statement for Patrick Cosgrave Reference code: IE UCDA P233 Title: Papers of Patrick Cosgrave (1941–2001) Dates: 1963–2001 Level of description: Fonds Extent: 6 boxes

Margaret Thatcher died #OTD 2013. @ucddublin.bsky.social history graduate, Patrick Cosgrave acted as a Special Advisor to Thatcher from 1975 and 1979. A collection of his papers is available for consultation by appointment in our reading room.

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Three photographs (P150/2969) taken during de Valera’s visit to Liverpool most probably during his Anti-Partition tours of Great Britain in 1948 and 1949. They comprise prints ‘Anti Partition Parade in Liverpool’, ‘Crowd at Liverpool Partition Meeting listening to Mr. de Valera’ and ‘Mr. de Valera addressing Liverpool Mayor’.

Our April Document of the Month is online. A group of three photos taken during Eamon de Valera’s visit to Liverpool during his Anti-Partition tours of Great Britain in 1948 and 1949.

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Beautiful illustration of the power structure in Ireland during the first half-century of independence.

Fascinating - if there's a moral its "shake out the second hand books that you buy".

photograph shows Eamon de Valera, President of Ireland, kneeling to pay his respects to Archbishop McQuaid at the Belfield campus turning-the-sod ceremony in 1962. Michael Tierney, President of @ucd.dublin, is standing beside them in the middle of the photograph. (c) Irish Press, used by permission.

John Charles McQuaid, RC Archbishop of Dublin, d #OTD 1973. Eamon de Valera, President of Ireland, pays his respects to McQuaid at the Belfield campus turning-the-sod ceremony in 1962. Michael Tierney, President of @ucddublin.bsky.social, stands beside them. (c) Irish Press, used by permission.

We don't hold an original proclamation but we do hold fragments. Read about them online in a post by Mick O’Farrell on the @ucdlibrary.bsky.social Cultural Heritage Blog.

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Upcoming Works: Cultural Heritage Centre Level 1 From the 30th of March, enabling works for the new Cultural Heritage Centre will begin on Level 1. While we are working to minimise disruption, readers can expect intermittent noise in the reading room. Noise cancelling headphones are available to borrow from the main information desk. Thank you for your patience as we build a new home for UCD Archives, the National Folklore Collection, and Special Collections.

Works for the new Cultural Heritage Centre are underway on Level 1 of the James Joyce Library. While we are working to minimise disruption, readers can expect intermittent noise in the reading room. Thank you for your patience.

Three handwritten and yellowed documents arranged in an overlapping stack, with the UCD crest and Library text. Text reads "...courage, earnestness and discipline..."

Read the latest #CulturalHeritage Collections blog, detailing a small collection outlining an incomplete history of ‘A’ Company, 1st battalion, Dublin Brigade, IRA, 1914–23, written by IRA Commander Peadar McNulty. Held in @ucdarchives.bsky.social

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28 Mar 1627: The first dateable manuscript penned #otd by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, #Franciscan friar, scribe, historian, lexicographer & one compiler of the Annals of the Four Masters

(His signature from @ucdarchives.bsky.social )

Three students sitting at a desk with laptops and books.

Purple graphic showing a floor plan of Level 1 of the UCD James Joyce Library with information about a redevelopment project.

From next Mon, 30 March the next phase of the redevelopment of the James Joyce Library will begin.

See our Project page for full details & the JJL Level 1 floor plan showing the construction zone. The JJL remains open throughout the project. Thank you for your patience.

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24 Mar ?654: d. St. Caimín, founder of Inis Celtra monastery on the #Shannon. Here is the wonderful later psalter named after him, UCD-OFM Ms A1 from @ucdarchives.bsky.social

We agree!

Thank you Vincent. FYI, we used John O’Donovan’s translation and that line is used in the UCC CELT project.

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Aois Criost, 932

Uallach, inghen Muimhnecháin, bainécces Ereann, d'écc.

The Age of Christ, 932.

Uallach, daughter of Muimhneachan, chief poetess of Ireland, died.

#WorldPoetryDay

online isos.dias.ie

We loved seeing everyone on Wednesday!

Thanks to @kate-manning.bsky.social and all attendees for an insightful evening exploring the Fianna Fáil archives! @ucdarchives.bsky.social

Interior of the early 19th century church of St Patrick in Limerick city

Hiberno modernism in Mayo - St Patrick’s in Newport, late 1910s

Interior of the very grand late 19th century church of St Patrick in Montreal

St Patrick’s church, Soho, London - this is a rebuilding of the original church on the site from the late 18th c - associated w Fr Arthur O’Leary

A selection of the many Catholic church and cathedral buildings all over the world, big and small, named in honour of St Patrick! Limerick, Mayo, Montreal and London! #LáFhéilePhádraig

Manuscript
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Translation
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Translation
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Transcription
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The Age of Christ, 432. The fourth year of Laeghaire. Patrick came to Ireland this year, and proceeded to baptize and bless the Irish, men, women, sons, and daughters, except a few who did not consent to receive faith or baptism from him, as his Life relates.

The Age of Christ, 432.
The fourth year of Laeghaire.
Patrick came to Ireland this year, and proceeded to baptize and bless the Irish, men, women, sons, and daughters, except a few who did not consent to receive faith or baptism from him, as his Life relates.

UCD-OFM Ms A13

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The Age of Christ, 431. The third year of Laeghaire. Saint Patrick was ordained bishop by the holy Pope, Celestine the First, who ordered him to go to Ireland, to preach and teach faith and piety to the Gaeidhil, and also to baptize them.

The Age of Christ, 431.
The third year of Laeghaire.
Saint Patrick was ordained bishop by the holy Pope, Celestine the First, who ordered him to go to Ireland, to preach and teach faith and piety to the Gaeidhil, and also to baptize them.

UCD-OFM Ms A13 Annals of the Four Masters

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Aois Criost, ceithre ched triocha a dó. An ceathramhadh bliadhain do Laoghaire. Pattraic do theacht i n-Erinn an bliadhain-si, go ro gabh for baitseadh & beannachaigh Ereann, fiora mna, maca, & ingena, cénmótá uathadh na ro fhaomh baitsiodh na creideamh uadh, amhuil aisnedheas a bheatha.

Aois Criost, ceithre ched triocha a dó.
An ceathramhadh bliadhain do Laoghaire.
Pattraic do theacht i n-Erinn an bliadhain-si, go ro gabh for baitseadh & beannachaigh Ereann, fiora mna, maca, & ingena, cénmótá uathadh na ro fhaomh baitsiodh na creideamh uadh, amhuil aisnedheas a bheatha.

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Aois Criost, ceithre céd triocha a h-aon. An tres bhliadhain do Laoghaire. Ro h-oirdneadh naomh Pattraicc i n-espuccoide lasa naomh-papa an ced Celestinus, ro furail fair tocht dochum n-Ereann, do shenmóir & do proicept credmhi & crabhaidh do Gaoidhealaibh, & dia m-baitseadh idir.

Aois Criost, ceithre céd triocha a h-aon.
An tres bhliadhain do Laoghaire.
Ro h-oirdneadh naomh Pattraicc i n-espuccoide lasa naomh-papa an ced Celestinus, ro furail fair tocht dochum n-Ereann, do shenmóir & do proicept credmhi & crabhaidh do Gaoidhealaibh, & dia m-baitseadh idir.

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!☘️
Read all about wearing green, shamrocks and other St. Patrick's Day traditions in this UCD Library #CulturalHeritage Collections blog post by @bealoideasucd.bsky.social from 2022.

Read at buff.ly/jyxl0a3

@ucdarchives.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

⬆️ Online @dias-isos.bsky.social

The feast day of St Patrick is tomorrow. He shares his day with St Failtigern, a holy woman, now obscure, whose name is recorded in Félire Óenguso/Martyrology of Óengus, UCD-OFM MS A7, f 13r, C15th.

H/T @elvabjohnston.bsky.social

Black and white photo of a small dog, a photo of a room with camera and tripod and a handwritten notebook all on a blue background.

In the latest UCD Library #CulturalHeritage blog post Polly Morton looks at the eccentric life of 19th century landowner Adolphus Cooke, taken from the Urban Folklore Project held in @bealoideasucd.bsky.social

Read at ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/03/12/a...

@ucdarchives.bsky.social

#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...

UCD Deputy Librarian Lorna Dodd (left) welcomes Professor Jeffrey Sachs to the James Joyce Library.

UCD Librarian Dr. Sandra Collins, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, author Jacqueline Corbelli and UCD Deputy Librarian Lorna Dodd speaking at an event in the James Joyce Library.

Last Thursday, 5 March, UCD Library had the pleasure of welcoming Jeffrey Sachs, world-renowned economist and professor at Columbia University.

Sachs was at UCD to speak about sustainability and has an interest in the role and work of libraries in championing UN sustainable development goals.

Thanks Niamh. Our colleagues in UCD Special Collections prepared your items for you. We will pass on your kind words.