Sarah Graham

I’ve made it to Christmas! ✈️🗻🎄

Three people smiling and examining historical documents at a table, surrounded by shelves of archival books and manuscripts. The atmosphere is warm and collaborative, highlighting the team effort behind the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland.

📜 Just launched: 175,000 new historical records are now available on the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social, including 60,000 names for family historians to explore in the new Population Portal.

Read more: www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

#IrishHistory #VirtualTreasury #DigitalArchives #VRTI #TrinityResearch

Happy anniversary VRTI !! 😊

Rossnowlagh and Lough Erne 😎🌞⛱️

And it’s launched!

Great that PRONI documents from the Lissadell collection are part of the beautiful Casimir Markievicz exhibition at Dublin Castle.

Drop by if you’re in town 😊

A count in arrears – Frank McNally on a first-ever solo exhibition of the life and work of Casimir Markievicz Markievicz was a prominent figure in Dublin’s social and artistic life for a decade

Exhibition launch day! 🥳Lovely to start it with a great write up of the Casimir Markievicz show curated by me and @katymilligan.bsky.social in the @irishtimes.com today by @frankie49.bsky.social

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

People, Power, and Parchment: The Life and Times of Medieval Dublin Castle. Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland Lunchtime talks at the Castle. Come along and feed the mind!

Please share widely — the first of our three upcoming Lunchtime Talks @dublincastle.bsky.social is in just over a fortnight! Join our colleague Dr Lynn Kilgallon for People, Power, and Parchment: The Life and Times of Medieval Dublin Castle.

Book your place at the link below:

Booking page for the Virtual; Treasury event at PRONI https://nisciencefestival.com/events Join experts from Trinity College Dublin and PRONI at the NI Science Festival to explore the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. Using VR, AI, and groundbreaking digital tools, this ambitious project is reconstructing the Irish Public Records destroyed in 1922, making the country’s lost archives accessible in new and exciting ways.

Exterior of the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland building, Belfast. Image from discovernorthernireland.com

📢📢 Belfast Science fans!
Come to PRONI 1.00pm today
The Technology of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
nisciencefestival.com/events/the-t...
Great short talks by:
Tim Murtagh: VRTI tech
Sarah Graham: complex conservation
Lynn Kilgallon: Knowledge Graphs + history

nisciencefestival.com

You are amazing!! 😊

Removing historic repairs from Archbishop Flemings register in the conservation studio today.

Anyone know what the annotation says in the margin?

Eight common types and consistencies hydrogels were tested for a recent treatment in conservation and agarose was best at rehydrating the early twentieth century repairs on medieval paper.

Derived from red algae, agarose can be modified for a number of uses in the studio 😊🖌️📚

Programme on how hardback books are made is in the food category.

Please don’t eat books, I can’t repair that crap, literally… 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Photos from when Archbishop Sweteman’s Register (1361-80) got a haircut. Repairs to one of Ireland’s oldest paper documents were made with kozo paper and wheat starch paste.

#PaperConservation #Bookbinding #MedievalIreland

Conservation works begin on 650-year-old paper document Painstaking work has commenced to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland.

Fascinating piece on @rte.ie about the great conservation under way at Public Record office of Northern Ireland on (quite possibly!) the earliest paper document on the island of Ireland 🙂👓
[Image shows the expert work of Sarah Graham Head of Conservation PRONI 👇]
www.rte.ie/news/2024/12...

Last document to be conserved at PRONI in 2024 for my first post here. 😊 🖌️📚