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Ciarán Wallace
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Historian of Urban 19-20th c. Ireland/UK.
Co-Director @VirtualTreasury
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Molly Holly. Golly! Defensive festive hedging for Molly Malone
November 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Earlier this year, VOICES' own Dr Bronagh Ann McShane (@bamcshane.bsky.social) delivered the opening keynote lecture at the annual Catholic Record Society Conference in Leeds, with her paper entitled: 'Hiding in Plain Sight: Women, Agency and Catholicism in the Early Modern Courts'. Read more here:
Keynote Lecture at the Catholic Record Society Hiding in Plain Sight: Women, Agency, and Catholicism in Early Modern Ireland - VOICES
By Dr Bronagh Ann McShane In July 2025, I had the pleasure of delivering the opening keynote lecture at the annual Catholic Record Society Conference, held at Hinsley Hall in Leeds. My paper, ‘Hiding ...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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It was such an honour to give this lecture about @voicestcd.bsky.social
A huge thank you to the amazing team at @royalhistsoc.org & to everyone who joined us.
royalhistsoc.org Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 4d
Our great thanks to Jane Ohlmeyer who gave the Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture on Friday evening.

Jane's lecture, 'Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland', charted new work to recover the lives of Irish women, c.1550-1700 bit.ly/43NZXhv. Video to follow soon #Skystorians
Jane Ohlmeyer delivers the Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture - RHS
On 21 November, the Society was delighted to welcome Professor Jane Ohlmeyer to give the 2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture: ‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland’. Jane's lecture in...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Looking forward to speaking at the History Research Seminar at Maynooth tomorrow. I'll be talking about 'the news' and how its disruptive qualities are anything but new. The context will be the British Empire, particularly Ireland and America. Very grateful to conveners for the invitation.
donalh.bsky.social Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · Sep 18
A great lineup for this semester's Department of History Research Seminar in Maynooth. This is open to all so do join us and please share widely.
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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If you're in ireland and have kids in primary school or soon to be, please fill out this survey on preferences re religious involvement in schools, and whether people prefer single-sex or co-ed. It takes < 1 minute and will inform future provision. #speirgorm www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Primary School Survey
This survey is for parents and guardians of children in primary school or who will enter primary school in the coming years
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November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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#BloodySunday took place #OTD 1920. Between 1948 and 1954, Ernie O'Malley interviewed c.400 of his revolutionary colleagues, some of them IRA men who were involved in the killings of the British intelligence officers that day. Here Matty MacDonald describes the killing of Captain G.T. Baggally. 1/2
“We knocked at the front door a maid came along have a letter from the Castle will you deliver this not to Captain Bagelly a one legged man. The maid pointing and in we went. We tapped at the door, opened it and walked in. There were 3 of us. Bagelly was in bed. Lemass, Jimmy and I. I was kind of scared. ‘Captain Bagelly?’ ‘That’s my name.’ ‘I suppose you know what we came for. We came for you.’ He was the Judge Advocate General. ‘I suppose you’ve come for my guns’ he said. One of us, Jimmy Brennan hid it under the bed and he reached behind for it… Slugs and a little more was our reply. ‘Get up.’ He was in pyjamas. Lemass and Jimmy and I fired 2 in the head from the 3 guns. I heard maids screaming afterwards but I was told she was alright. On the ground floor was Jack Foley. A fellow came out with a towel in pyjamas for a bath and Jack stuck him up and he was balls naked. Thinking he was a lodger but he was another British army officer and how we didn’t know about him, we hadn’t any orders about him.” Matty MacDonald, Ernie O’Malley Notebooks, UCDA P17b/105
November 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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So maybe everybody already knew about this tip
- but I just accidentally hit 'Fn+F5' on my keyboard
in Google Chrome and a search box popped up saying:
Search AI Free Web 🙃
A search box with text: Search AI Free Web
November 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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🔔 WANTED — Dead or Alive! (1694)
A £50 reward offered for ten “Notorious Rebels and Traitors” in Kilkenny — or just bring the head. 😳

Join the VRTI Roadshow in Kilkenny on 25 Nov to see this chilling notice and explore how law, memory, and violence show up in the archives.
TNA SP 63/356/81 Proclamation by the lords justices and council: of a reward for the apprehension, dead or alive, of rebels, listed in detail, who have fled to the mountains and other places where they 'stand upon their keeping'.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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📣 The keynotes and a VRTI panel from last month's 'Ireland and the American Revolution' conference hosted with @tlrhub.bsky.social are now available here:

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Ireland and the American Revolution
A two-day conference organised by The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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#WomenInRebellion We hope you've enjoyed this series (curated by our colleague @timvrti.bsky.social)! These voices — from courtrooms, safehouses, prison cells, and family rooms — reveal women as actors, witnesses, and narrators in the 1798 Rebellion.
‘A map of Ireland to elucidate the Rebellion of 1798’, from Sir Richard Musgrave, Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland (1801)
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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This Friday in Belfast, in case anyone is around. I'll be talking a lot about industrial chemicals, about the pharmaceutical industry, and about where we look for evidence of capitalism in late c20th Ireland.
conorbrockbank.bsky.social Conor Brockbank @conorbrockbank.bsky.social · 9d
Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar by @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social, chaired by @kieranconnell.bsky.social! Snacks and drinks will be provided as usual. For more information and to sign up to attend online, see the link below:
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November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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IGRS Top Research Tip #181: Ancestors from Co Tipperary? Try Tipperary Studies’ vast and ever growing collection for the county’s history and heritage: books, journals, local newspapers, maps, images including photos and postcards, archives and ephemera: www.tippstudiesdigital.ie?utm_source=c...
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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I always presumed there was more to this than the way it was reported.
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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#WomenInRebellion Petition for survival: Jane Montgomery asked Lord Cornwallis for one thing: safe passage to America. Not land, not money — just the chance to escape retribution. Hers is one of many women’s petitions in the Rebellion Papers.

🔗 Read it here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...
Francisco Goya Woman in Prison 1797-98 185 x 125 mm Burnished aquatint, touched with black chalk on paper Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid NAI CSO/REB/620/51/91 Jane Montgomery (Co. Down), memorial to Marquess Cornwallis [no date, post-1798]
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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1952 - Suggested Extension for Dublin Airport
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1952 - Suggested Extension for Dublin Airport - Architecture of Fingal, Unbuilt Ireland - Archiseek.com
Architect: Desmond Fitzgerald The original terminal was planned to handle a maximum of 250,000 passengers per annum, by 1951 it was handling 276,000
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November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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virtualtreasury.bsky.social Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · 15d
Enjoyed reading an expert article in History Ireland Nov/Dec 2025 (33:6) by @eneclann.bsky.social's Fiona Fitzsimons about Grand Jury records (One of our favourite sources 🙂)
And very kindly linking to our free downloadable guidebook:
People, Place and Power www.virtualtreasury.ie/publications 😀👍
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Great feature in historyireland.bsky.social by bsky.app/profile/mayn... Eamon Darcy on William Molyneux & the birth of #LocalHistory in Ireland.

👀 our Curated collection
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📢 Shout out to funders bsky.app/profile/ria.ie
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📷TCD Library bsky.app/profile/tcdd...
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Engraving of William Molyneux in full wig and white lace collar c. 1660s Image of the headline to Eamon Darcy's feature in History Ireland: 'A Heap of Rude Materials - William Molyneux and the birth of local Irish history in the age of empires.
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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One Thousand New Entries Added to our Early Irish BMD Indexes: www.irishancestors.ie/bmd-indexes-...
September 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Me when I find a new census transcript.
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Come along to hear this fantastic lineup speaking about one of the most important issues facing our sector!!
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Do share! The Catholic Historical Society of Ireland’s annual conference is on Daniel O’Connell and his Legacies - 22 Nov in @dculibrary.bsky.social - all welcome! (Small fee on the day) @nmireland.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social @jdmccafferty.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/oconnell-a...
O’CONNELL AND HIS LEGACY
Join us to celebrate the life and enduring impact of O'Connell and his legacy at our upcoming event!
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November 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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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
Source: L.Brown Collection
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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#WomenInRebellion Grief & defiance: Mary Ann McCracken’s letter after her brother’s execution is searing: a sister’s grief, a patriot’s outrage, and a refusal to forget.

Read her unflinching words here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...
NAI CSO/REB/620/16/3/8 — Mary Ann McCracken to Thomas Russell, describing trial and execution of her brother Henry Joy McCracken [Wednesday, 18 July 1798]
November 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM