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Virtual Treasury A digital reconstruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland building and its collections destroyed in 1922 at the outset of the Civil War.

The clocks going forward today made us wonder - what's the earliest reference to a clock in the VRTI? 🤔🕰️How about this ...
29/03/2026

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 😀

Plans for 1788 at Dublin Castle.Cotillons + Country Dances but no Minuets.Ladies - Irish-made dresses please, but no h...
16/03/2026

Plans for 1788 at Dublin Castle.
Cotillons + Country Dances but no Minuets.
Ladies - Irish-made dresses please, but no hoops.
(What is 'full dress' for the gentlemen? 🤔🙂)

https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/DGZ-1788-5047

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Ahead of the parade and all the celebrations ☘️ 😀 how about some purgatory? St Patrick's Purgatory, Lough Derg has...
13/03/2026

Ahead of the parade and all the celebrations ☘️ 😀 how about some purgatory?

St Patrick's Purgatory, Lough Derg has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries. These beautiful early maps gave it remarkable prominence!



See thousands more maps in our Map Room:
www.virtualtreasury.ie/curated-collections/map-room

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See this nce new addition to our Molyneux Papers page 🙂 'William + Samuel Molyneux, Astronomers of Castle Dillon, Armagh...
09/03/2026

See this nce new addition to our Molyneux Papers page 🙂
'William + Samuel Molyneux, Astronomers of Castle Dillon, Armagh' by James A. Finnegan.
https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/hidden-stories/william-and-samuel-molyneux
The full article can be downloaded for free.

And check out the wonderful collection of Papers of William Molyneux and the Dublin Philosophical Society shared by facebook.com/tcdlibrary

https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/curated-collections/molyneux-papers

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Continuing with medieval women, money, property and politics for here is a taster of Dr Elizabeth Biggs' research. El...
08/03/2026

Continuing with medieval women, money, property and politics for here is a taster of Dr Elizabeth Biggs' research. Elizabeth's full journal article is due out later this year.

Rediscovering the Women of the Medieval Irish Exchequer - Virtual Treasury

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Locating women in the historical archive can be a challenge - but one that is worth tackling, producing new and deeper u...
08/03/2026

Locating women in the historical archive can be a challenge - but one that is worth tackling, producing new and deeper understanding of the past.

In the run-up to on Sun 8 March we are sharing some of the research and documents available on the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland highlighting women in the records, and their role in History.

Let's start with this great example from medieval Dublin 😃
Produced by Dr Theresa O'Byrne, Dr Lynn Kilgallon, and Sadhbh Dunne, in collaboration with our wonderful colleagues in the Royal Irish Academy Library and the Irish Manuscripts Commission

Women in the Guild of St Anne - Virtual Treasury
https://virtualtreasury.ie/image-galleries/women-in-the-guild-of-st-anne

Almost 360 years ago, in June 1666, 'E. Ormond' sent a letter to London. https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/TNA-SP-63-321...
07/03/2026

Almost 360 years ago, in June 1666, 'E. Ormond' sent a letter to London. https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/TNA-SP-63-321-31

It may take more effort to find women in the archive, but elite women like Elizabeth Butler, duchess of Ormond were an exception. The familiar tone of her letter to Secretary of State Arlington shows her social standing.

Check out Elizabeth's Knowledge Graph entry to see he other letters to Arlington:
https://kg.virtualtreasury.ie/entity-card/person/Butler_Elizabeth_c17/v1z89hn

Thanks to our generous colleagues in https://www.dib.ie/ for sharing Elizabeth's biography, included in the Knowledge Graph.
https://www.dib.ie/biography/Butler-Elizabeth-a1245

Dr Neil Johnson's work at TNA continues to uncover individual women and men in the State Papers Ireland collection, a real treasure trove! https://virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/state-papers-ireland Our Technical Director Dr Éamonn Kenny manages to make this complex web of data visible for users online.

Dr Lynn Kilgallon, Dr Lucy McKenna and Dr Alex Randles are the team behind the growing Knowledge Graph for Irish History. https://kg.virtualtreasury.ie/

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