Black and white newspaper clipping showing three rows of the hospital hockey 🏒 team, dated 1910.

The newspaper cuttings red book

Today’s @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
we have a photo from 1910. This is the Cardiff City Mental Hospital Hockey 🏒 team but it has women and men within it… very inclusive when the hospital was segregated

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WHITCHURCH HOSPITAL, CARDIFF Slide of RCAHMW colour oblique aerial photograph of Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff; Cardiff Lunatic Asylum, taken by T.G. Driver, 25/7/2001.

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an example of what information can be found online relating to Whitchurch Hospital. This fabulous photo

www.peoplescollection.wales/items/5988

Black and white grainy photo showing two dogs, one standing on the left and one lying on the right with Matron King sitting in between them. Trees in the background

Full page of the THE NURSING TIMES FEB. 24, 1934 article

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Missed a few days but ready to go again today with #EYApets

Matron King with her beautiful dogs at the Cardiff City Mental Hospital.

THE NURSING TIMES FEB. 24, 1934.

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Hook Head Lighthouse, Churchtown (Shelburne By.), Co. Wexford Lighthouse, WX054-010---- https://tinyurl.com/3hz7wxh2 ©Photographic Archive, National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland.

Clogh Oughter Castle, Lough Oughter, Co. Cavan. Birds Eye View. Castle – Anglo-Norman masonry castle CV020-060---- National Monument No. 602 https://tinyurl.com/mr35ujkc ©Photographic Archive, National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland.

Two #medievalmonuments standing proud for #Day3 of #ExploreYourArchive

📷Hook Head Lighthouse, Co. Wexford
📷Clough Oughter Castle, Co. Cavan

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Courtesy University College Cork © 2022 (All Rights Reserved). Person with long blonde hair face-down in swaying grass. Wearing yellow scraf and blue coat.

Motion blur of first communions people walking through St. fin barre's cathedral. Black-and-white photo, long-exposure to create the motion-blur.

four glass plate negatives inverted to show the positive image. One rura; scene, one street scene, one of a man and a woman in a cottage, one of a ship.

We have so many fantatsic photographs in our collection @ucclibrary.bsky.social, it was difficult to narrow it down for the theme of beauty. We are sharing three stellar examples here by Alen MacWeeney [UCC © 2022 (All Rights Reserved)] and from the Liam Kennedy Collection. #EYA2025 #EYABeauty

two people in a conservation lab

Conservators are multiplying fast in Munster this Autumn! A month ago we welcomed Luca De Cilladi, the first conservation intern @ucclibrary.bsky.social, co-funded by @theheritagecouncil.

We also visited Lara Artemis at University of Limerick.
www.ul.ie/library/lara...
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@exploreyourarchive.bsky.social 2025 kicks off tonight at Custom House Visitor Centre in Dublin, hosted by @araireland.bsky.social.

Focus Week runs 29 Nov. - 7 Dec. Get ready to share content from your own collections that matches each day's theme!

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Delighted as Chair of @araireland.bsky.social to welcome @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social as our #ExploreYourArchive 2025/26 ambassador and looking forward to meeting her at our launch of the focus week and year-long campaign this Thursday. It’s a privilege to have her advocating for us.

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Calling all archivists, records mgrs, conservators & archive institutions on island of Ireland - if you've any events happening for Explore Your Archive Focus week, 29/11-7/12/25, send in details to either of our wonderful officers, @erinmck96.bsky.social or @rebeccaoneill.bsky.social !
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