Jean-Philippe SanGiovanni

Thank you Peter, I am sure it will!

I feel the same Joel! Thanks for all your advice over the last few years and I look forward to seeing some of the output for the America 250 work!

Thank you Ciarán! I truly loved every moment — thank you for taking a chance on me four years ago!

Elizabeth, it was a joy working with you as well! We'll definitely keep in touch and I look forward to the postcards :) did my letter arrive?

Thank you Patrick! Likewise, and I hope users continue to be able to access the Registry of Deeds content on the VRTI!

For now, I'll be taking some time over the coming months to visit friends and family and reflect on what comes next, but I would always welcome conversations with those working in areas of shared interest. Please do keep in touch!

I’m not sure I will ever again work with a team as generous and supportive as this one. It is a rare privilege to feel trusted by your colleagues and to build something meaningful together.

Over the past four years, I had the pleasure of expanding our online offerings and planning and delivering a series of “roadshows” in collaboration with county archivists and librarians to communities across Ireland and Northern Ireland.

I am sad that today marks my last day as a Research Associate with @virtualtreasury.bsky.social.

This has been my dream job. I've been able to connect with so many different people who engage with Irish history in so many different ways.

https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-KB-2-5-105-6-1 National Archives Ireland Justiciary Roll, 7 Edward II, roll 105, membrane 6 dorse. Tipperary. The assize came to recognise whether Patrick de Caunteton and Desiderata his wife unjustly disseised the prioress of the house of the blessed Brigid of Moylagh of her free tenement in Moylagh, and whereof she complains that they disseised her of six shillings and eight pence worth of rent with the appurtenances. And Patrick and Desiderata did not come.

https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/PROI-PUB-Chancery1-1127 Annual report of Deputy Keeper of Public Records. Surrender of the abbey or monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary, of Kilcowle, etc. including: 'Surrender of the convent, or house, of St Brigid, of Molaghe, Co Tipperary, by Johanna Powere the Abbesse, with the consent of the convent...'

https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/RCBL-Ms-104-1-203 Representative Church Body Library, Dublin. Co. Meath. Surrender of convent of St Brigid of Odder by Margaret Shylke, abbess. 'A surrender by Margaret Shylke, Abbess and the convent of St Brigid of Odder of the order of St Augustine, which with their assent and consent, with deliberate minds, certain knowledge ... of their own accord have granted up and confirmed to King Hen. 8. Defender of the Faith [etc.] ... all the abbey... precinct, church, steeple, and cemetery [and list of land holdings, rents etc.].'

https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-Lodge-4-78 National Archives Ireland. Co. Wexford Grant to Sir ADAM LOFTUS of land in Wexford and Dublin. An extensive list of lands granted, including: 'The rectories of ... St Brigid of Tamon [Taghmon], Whitchurch.'

St Brigid in the landscape of Irish history.
Just four of many mentions of abbeys dedicated to St Brigid from our partner's collections.
A land dispute in 1313, surrenders under Henry VIII, and a land grant c. 1619.
#Brigid #Wexford #Meath #Tipperary
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Finding Limerick in the Virtual Treasury of Ireland Exploring the history of Limerick and its people through the lens of the Virtual Treasury of Ireland's exciting online resource

📢 NEXT ROADSHOW: We're headed to the Treaty City! Join us in Limerick on 11 February for our next VRTI Roadshow. We'll be hosted by Limerick City and County Council Archives Services and Library, the Limerick Museum, and the People's Museum of Limerick.

More details here: bit.ly/4r0Ej2M

Source: L.Brown Collection

Save the date! 📆 We are bringing the VRTI Roadshow to Kilkenny this month, with a special addition: the launch of Professor Keith Busby's new publication — The Statute of Kilkenny — published by the Irish Manuscripts Commission.

🗓️ Tues25 November 2025
🕠 6:45 – 9:00 PM
📍 Mayfair Library, Kilkenny

Illustrated view of crowds on beach and steamboat pier, Coney Island, New York. Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate), Boston Public Library, Print Department

Wow! Great crowds on the Virtual Treasury today — apologies if items are showing 404 error messages. We're working to make space for everyone to view our new releases. Hang tight!

A poster for the "Ireland and America: 250th Anniversary Perspectives" event, made up of a collage of drawings and photographs: St Patrick's Day parade, New York (1909) George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Irish Volunteers flag c 1782 © National Museum of Ireland From Irish emigrant poster cartoons courtesy of PRONI From Francis Wheatley, The Dublin Volunteers on College Green, 4th November 1779, courtesy of National Gallery of Ireland.

On the eve of the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which set off the American Revolution, we'd like to remind you of our upcoming event "Ireland and America" organised by @joelherman.bsky.social and hosted by PRONI on 15 May from 6:15 - 8:15PM.

📢⌛ Last minute availability!
A few seats now free for today's talk

Join us to hear Dr Lynn Kilgallon
'People, Power, and Parchment:
The Life and Times of Medieval Dublin Castle'
13:00 - 14:00
Bedford Tower, 1st Floor, Upper Yard, Dublin Castle.
Free - booking essential: bit.ly/4k5Va1z

As we approach a series of 250th anniversaries relating to the period of the American Revolution it is important to interrogate points of connection in Irish and American pasts. This is the focus of ‘Ireland and America: 250th Anniversary Perspectives’, hosted by PRONI in partnership with the VRTI.

Closing date 12pm 11 April!

Open Research Fellow in Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social for ‘Witnessing war, making peace: testimonies of revolution and restraint in inter-war Ireland’ led by Dr Anne Dolan.

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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:

Honoured to be invited by NI Science Festival and PRONI to speak on the technology behind the VRTI today.

Great turnout + interesting questions (and our youngest ever audience member! 🤗👶)

@timvrti.bsky.social
@bookandpaper-ni.bsky.social
@adaptcentre.bsky.social

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

Atlas of Carlow, Down Survey, William S. Petty (1655 – 1656), courtesy of the L. Brown Collection. The county's baronies are marked out in different colours.

We're headed for #Carlow! Our next #Roadshow will be Thursday, 27 February at @carlowlibraries.bsky.social, Tullow Street (R93 K126). Watch this space for more information in the coming weeks! ❤️ 💛 💚

@cwallacedublin.bsky.social @briangurrin.bsky.social

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

From the outbreak of the American War of Independence to the outset of the French Revolution, 1776-1789, the Cavendish Transcripts provide the only first-hand account of the debates of the Irish Parliament. And they are now available on the VRTI platform: virtualtreasury.ie/item/LOC-MSS.... (1/6)

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...

An image on parchment from the Red Book of the Exchquer (TNA E 164/2), depicting a group of clerks working around a checkered table, on which lay a book and several scrolls.

Our latest Archive Fever, "Rediscovering the Women of the Medieval Irish Exchequer" by @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social, explores the variety of ways in which individual women might encounter the exchequer and English government more broadly!

Read it here: virtualtreasury.ie/archive-feve...

A HUGE congratulations to Mairéad McClean who was recently awarded the Kinoscop International Festival of Analog Experimental Cinema's Curator's Award 2024 for her film, 'Acts of Memory'.

More information can be found here:
virtualtreasury.ie/news/mairead...

Still from 'Acts of Memory' - full face shot of the archivist putting on his glasses as the image comes into focus. Mairead McClean was the Decade of Centenaries Artist in Residence with the Trinity Long Room Hub working with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland.

Still from 'Acts of Memory' showing newsreel footage of the shelling of the Four Courts, Dublin, in June 1922 - in the battle which resulted in the destruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland and its seven centuries of Irish historical records.

Still from 'Acts of Memory' showing a hand opening to reveal a chestnut

😃 Delighted that Mairéad McClean's brilliant film
'Acts of Memory' is selected as the opening screening at www.kinoskop.co Museum of Yugoslav Film Archive 8-10 Dec 2024
👀 trailer for this '16mm/ Artificially Intelligent film' here 👇
www.maireadmcclean.com/acts-of-memory
Insta: @maclofski

Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes

Two students from @historytcd.bsky.social's Public History MPhil carried out a project in collaboration with the Irish Community Archive Network (iCAN) to test the success of 'shared authority' in a virtual space — this page is the culmination of their efforts!

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