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/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://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lpeuvpzstxbn4zomtnfzvwa/bafkreihvml3pviiqbc5sr4dbojniidmjduaes7j6ymrbhrhxi72qrz5u64)
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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.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lpeuvpzstxbn4zomtnfzvwa/bafkreigclfkjj36g3t2y2tbghuf6j2kvsmb7ifi6k3zccdjhsa2dlmbj4i)
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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📢 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
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
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!
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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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
📢📢 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
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)
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...
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...
😃 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!
virtualtreasury.ie/uncover-crea...
