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When teaching a lesson in history, it can often be useful to base your lesson around a particular set of sources. The benefits of this are that students can make…

The beginning of Christmas is marked in many different ways from one home to the next, influenced by several religious, regional and cultural factors. For some, it is the lighting…

Today marks the ninth and final day of ARA’s #ExploreYourArchive focus week, and what a week it’s been! To close it out, we’re returning to the IAR with a post…

One of the great challenges in Archives, particularly in Ireland where we have lost many archive collections, is to find archives or to try and piece together information from archives…

With the new year fast approaching, many of us will have already started to ponder over the new hobbies we plan to take up come January. Ideas begin to spring…

After taking a brief interval to delve into what makes the Irish Archives Resource unique, it is time to turn our attention back to the collections contributed to the IAR,…

From politics and culture to craftsmen and adventurers, ARA’s #ExploreYourArchive week has inspired us to explore wide range of fantastic collections so far. However, for today’s post, we are going…

Shifting focus from yesterday’s post which delved into the largest collections and contributors in the Irish Archives Resource, day four of ARA’s #ExploreYourArchive week has inspired us to uncover some…

For today’s Explore Your Archive theme, we will be looking at all things BIG in the Irish Archives Resource! When we refer to archives as being “big,” we often mean…