Ditto. It's always great to speak about what's in our strong rooms!
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Ditto. It's always great to speak about what's in our strong rooms!
Tickets may be booked at the link below. 2/2
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To mark the centenary this year of the foundation of the Fianna FΓ‘il Party the Irish Society for Archives has invited Kate to give a talk about the Party's archives, which are held in UCDA. Talk: The Archives of the Fianna FΓ‘il Party: A Case Study of Political Party Archives and Their Role in a Democratic State' Tickets are free but should be reserved via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-archives-of-fianna-fail-political-party-archives-in-a-modern-democracy-tickets-1984615659863
Kate will give a talk to @irisharchives1970.bsky.social on 18 March, 6.00pm in The Conference Room, Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street, Dublin 2: The Archives of the Fianna FΓ‘il Party: A Case Study of Political Party Archives and Their Role in a Democratic State' 1/2
On 16 Sept 1642 Rosa O'Doherty signed this letter. Here it is for #InternationalWomensDay , 384 years later. This is possibly a unique surviving example of a 17thC signature of a #Gaelic Irishwoman. (The letter is now in @ucdarchives.bsky.social as part of the Franciscan collection)
St Clare of Assisi (1194-1253) was the first woman to write a Rule of Life for her own monastic religious order for women, the Order of Poor Ladies. Following her death, the order was renamed in her honour as the Order of Saint Clare, commonly referred to as the Poor Clares. #InternationalWomensDay
Blue graphic with three different artefacts from UCD Special Collections - a letter with Abbey Theatre heading, a coloured drawing of a tree and people, and a handwritten letter with illustration of a cottage and surroundings.
Hannah Matthews of UCD Special Collections reflects on the art of letter writing, looking at the Curran/Laird Collection - manuscripts, books, & ephemera corresponding with significant theatrical & creative figures in Ireland in the 20th c.
Read at ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/02/26/a...
My condolences Lucy. Deirdre was a wonderful woman, who we will miss greatly in UCD Archives, and I will miss personally as a friend.--Kate
We are very sad to learn of the death of Dr Deirdre McMahon. Deirdre was an historian nonpareil, as well as a staunch advocate for archives and archivists. She was a great friend of UCD Archives over all the decades of our existence. We will miss her. Ar dheis DΓ© go raibh a hanam.
It's great seing our collections so well used. The joy is shared!
Thanks Leeann!
Happiness is being in @ucdarchives.bsky.social
Brian Faulkner was born #OTD 1921. This note in a file of documents concerning post-Sunningdale developments, includes Faulkner's proposal to the SDLP that the Sunningdale Agreement be ratified with the exception of those provisions relating to the Council of Ireland.
Sighle Humphreys married Donal O'Donoghue on 19 February 1935. This writer wishes Donal had 'waited until this unfortunate country was free' before marrying, as many married patriots 'eventually ignored the ills of the Motherland in the tranquillity of the domestic hearth.' #ValentinesDay
An old handwritten letter with stamps and a sepia toned photograph of rocks and trees and a man in suit sitting on one of the rocks. Text reads "Czech-Irish cultural contacts in the first half of the 20th century".
Kate Manning @ucdarchives.bsky.social reflects on early 20th c. Irish-Czech relations in a 1937 letter from Alice Hillstead MuΕ‘ek to J. Grierson of Dublin, which includes a photo of playwright J.M. Synge taken in 1906 in Dargle Glen.
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9 Feb 1274: St. Louis of Toulouse was born #otd The prince who became a Franciscan who became a bishop. Here he is from the 14th century UCD-OFM MsB44 now in @ucdarchives.bsky.social . Framed, in the second image, by St. Francis and St. Clare.
Our Februaryβs document of the month is a letter from Fr John Blowick to Dr Theo Dillon, dated 11 February 1938 (UCDA P126/192) concerning Irish missionaries.
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9 Feb 1563: d. Manus O'Donnell #otd who comissioned this Life of St. Colmcille now held in
@ucdarchives.bsky.social
(UCD-OFM Ms 8) #Donegal.
The leather cover is both a rarity and a joy.
The Age of Christ, 525. The twenty-second year of Muircheartach. Saint Brighit, virgin, Abbess of Cill Dara, died. It was to her Cill Dara was first granted, and by her it was founded. Brighit was she who never turned her mind or attention from the Lord for the space of one hour, but was constantly meditating and thinking of him in her heart and mind, as is evident in her own Life, and in the Life of St. Brenainn, Bishop of Cluain Fearta. She spent her time diligently serving the Lord, performing wonders and miracles, healing every disease and every malady, as her Life relates, until she resigned her spirit to heaven, the first day of the month of February; and her body was interred at Dun, in the same tomb with Patrick, with honour and veneration.
The Age of Christ, 525...Saint Brighit, virgin, Abbess of Cill Dara, died...She spent her time diligently serving the Lord, performing wonders and miracles, healing every disease and every malady, as her Life relates, until she resigned her spirit to heaven, the first day of the month of February...
The Age of Christ, 525. The twenty-second year of Muircheartach. Saint Brighit, virgin, Abbess of Cill Dara, died. It was to her Cill Dara was first granted, and by her it was founded. Brighit was she who never turned her mind or attention from the Lord for the space of one hour, but was constantly meditating and thinking of him in her heart and mind, as is evident in her own Life, and in the Life of St. Brenainn, Bishop of Cluain Fearta. She spent her time diligently serving the Lord, performing wonders and miracles, healing every disease and every malady, as her Life relates, until she resigned her spirit to heaven, the first day of the month of February; and her body was interred at Dun, in the same tomb with Patrick, with honour and veneration.
St Brigid's Day is #OTD. Brigid's actual existence is debated. She is given different birth and death dates. UCD-OFM MS A13, provides one of her death dates: 525. The full Irish text and translation may be found online as part of the CELT project (celt.ucc.ie).
Black and white photo: Sheep flock, Co. Wicklow. Photographer: Maurice Curtin, 1936, NFC B014.10.00002
In the first UCD Library #CulturalHeritage Collections blog post of 2026 Ailbe Van Der Heide of @bealoideasucd.bsky.social describes the folklore and traditions surrounding sheep.
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@ucdarchives.bsky.social @ucdscoilglcb.bsky.social
An overhead perspective shows a female student studying an open book with an open laptop in the background. The Gale Publishing logo and a "30 minute" icon with clock face and arrow are also shown. Text is "Spotlight Sessions Online" with webinar dates.
Join the Gale Publishing team on Fri, 6 Feb for an online look at the historical archives of 'The Financial Times' and the 'Economist', resources brought to you by UCD Library.
This is just 1 of 3 webinars exploring Gale databases with the experts.
Register for the 1st (6 Feb) at bit.ly/gale6feb.
Every evening Mnsgr Hugh O'Flaherty stood on the steps of St Peter's Basilica in view of armed German soldiers, making himself available to Jews, dissidents, deserters & Allied soldiers. More than 4,000 escaped occupied Rome with his help. www.dib.ie/biography/of... #HolocaustMemorialDay #DIBLives
This UCD Cultural Heritage Blog post from last year discusses Julius Pokorny's plea to Eoin MacNeill, Conn R. Γ ClΓ©irigh and Liam S. GΓ³gan for assistance when he fell afoul of the racist Nuremberg Laws of 1935.
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
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Various covers of 'The Listener' magazine archive overlapping each other, with the UCD Library crest and text. Text reads "Gale: The Listener Historical Archive: a new resource added to the UCD Library collection."
UCD Library has added over 60 resources to existing collections, incl 'The Listener' archive, a weekly literary & cultural magazine established by the BBC.
We hope this archive will support teaching, learning & research in the arts and humanities & social sciences. It's now available via OneSearch.
9 Jan 1639: Francis Harold #Franciscan nephew & biographer of Luke Wadding of #Waterford starts his studies in St. Isidore's #Irish college #Rome #otd (1st image here is some of his manuscript #poetry from @ucdarchives.bsky.social )
There is a file in De Valera's papers concerning this forest.
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As @historyandpolicy.bsky.social note, the document referred to in the article is published in @difp-ria.bsky.social Vol. 4. It has been available to consult in the MacEntee Papers in @ucdarchives.bsky.social since 1989.
24 December 1915. Christmas card from Mabel FitzGerald to her husband Desmond in Mountjoy prison.
Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful Christmas and New Year.
Christmas card from Eimhir Ni Uadall (Emily Weddall) to Eamon de Valera, December 1916. The card is beautifully drawn and painted, presumably by Ni Uadall. A member of Cumann na mBan, she is buried beside the republican plot at Glasnevin.
Sample Christmas card from the first venture of publisher An ClΓ³chomhar Tta, from the Papers of Seosamh Γ Duibhginn.