Explore Your Archive!
The annual Archives and Records Association’s campaign ‘Explore Your Archive’ launch week will run from 17th – 25th November with a launch on Thursday 15th…
Street Photography in the RTÉ Photographic Archive: a case study
I love street photography. It is immediate and energetic and often possesses a resonance lacking in more composed or artful shots. While much of RTÉ Photographic Archive’s holdings are studio-based…
Banished Beyond the Seas: National Archives of Ireland Records of Convict Transportation to Australia 1788-1868 – a lecture by Joan Kavanagh
On the 31st January, 2019, historian Joan Kavanagh gave a fascinating talk on the archival sources held in the National Archives, Ireland relating to convict transportation from Ireland to Australia. …
Let’s hear your voice! Heritage 2030
You may be aware that the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht have recently launched a public consultation on the new heritage plan for Ireland – Heritage 2030. The…
The Parsonstown (Birr) Union Collection – A Unique Look into Local Past
The Parsonstown (Birr) Union collection covers a large range of records from various different institutions, documenting various different local government and institutional functions. The collection has been sub-divided online into…
Explore Your Archive 2019
The annual Archives and Records Association campaign Explore Your Archive will run from 23rd November – 1st December, with a launch on Thursday 21st November in the Irish Architectural Archive,…
Increasing Engagement with Archive Hashtag Campaigns
2020 was the year that life moved online. Archive buildings were closed for months and archivists had to adapt to working from home. However, archives could still reach their users…
Exhibition – Charles Stanley Cuthbert, Diary of a WW1 Soldier
The wartime diary of Charles Stanley Cuthbert (1895-1988) was donated to dlr LexIcon Local Studies in 2015. The diary records Charles’ experience of World War One, beginning when he signed…
The legacy of neglect – how history pays the price for not taking care of the past
Whether speaking as an archive user or as member of the archive profession I won’t need to tell you that archives can often be seen as the poor relation in…
Christ the King – The Story of a Sculpture
The Christ the King statue stands in an elevated position in Moran Park, opposite dlr LexIcon, the main public library and cultural centre of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County. The statue was…
The Annaghmakerrig Papers at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre: a history of people and place
The Annaghmakerrig Papers are comprised of material associated with Annaghmakerrig House, near Newbliss in County Monaghan. Annaghmakerrig House is now the location of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, a residential workplace…
Delving into Exhibition Development
As part of my final dissertation for the Archives and Records Management program at University College Dublin, I embarked on development of an exhibition for the Irish Jesuit Archives (IJA)….
Rescued from Destruction – The Shanbally Castle Papers in The Timothy Looney Collection at UL
In March 1960, the Irish Land Commission completed the destruction, by controlled explosion, of Shanbally Castle, in Clogheen, South Western Tipperary – the largest of renowned architect John Nash’s Irish…
Deep Mapping the Archival Record – The St. George, Headford, Survey& Maps of Estate, 1775
In 2018 Galway County Council Archives invited 6 artists into the archive to engage with, interrogate and re-imagine chosen items from its collections in order to create new artworks that…