Wonderful talk by Ailbe van der Heide National Folklore Collection UCD on Ar Muir is ar Tír/ On Land and Sea. An insight into the traditional representations of the natural world found in the collections held by the National Folklore Collection #ARA2024 #irisharchives

Yayyy!! #ARA2024 😁 ARA UK+I Conference ARA Ireland

This month's Explore Your Archive theme is #EYAJourneys! These travel photos from the 1960s can be discovered in the Jacob's Biscuit Factory Archive deposited in the DRI repository by DCLA Reading Room. Discover more: doi.org/10.7486/DRI.6w… #DigiPres

Great talk by Mary Curley on Data rescue initiatives in Ireland and the Met Éireann Archives! #ARA2024

The joy of seeing a lot of archivists doing the Macarena #ARA2024

Final keynote underway ARA UK+I Conference by Lorraine Finch talking about the importance of taking action against climate change

Our 'Climate Collecting' panel will discuss: union records of industries impacted by climate change in Australia & the UK by Warwick MRC, inspiring the next generation of climate activists University of Galway Library Archives & the role of geoscience research in digital decarbonisation British Geological Survey

#ARA2024 a highlight for me, Mary Robinson, 60 years of legacy (670 boxes & growing) inspiring the next generation ✊#WomensHistory

#ARA2024 There’s CVs and then there’s women who change the world. Still very active Robinsons current project is women & #Climate change the ‘Dandelion Project’ projectdandelion.com

'Inspiring the next generation of Climate Activists'. Our fabulous chair Niamh Ní Charra is speaking about the Mary Robinson archive. A fitting topic to match this year's theme, along with a wonderful showcase of the work undertaken by Mary over the last 60 years #ARA2024

Our #Archives is so grateful for some of the wonderful recent donations which include photos, ledgers, letters, oral history, official publications. Among them was this photo of St Patrick's Church #Ballyshannon choir on a day out in 1928. #acquistion Thank you to all. #donegal

This month's Explore Your Archive theme is #EYAJourneys! We couldn't think of a more perfect postcard than this one to showcase. Bicycles, horse and cart, trams, walking. This postcard has it all (except maybe cars, boats, trains and planes)

It's that time of the year again - back to school! 🎒📚 For September, we'd love to see your collections that relate to school. #EYAArAisArScoil / #EYABackToSchool Use the hastags to get involved & remember to tag us so we can share! #CuardaighDoChartlann #ExploreYourArchive

With orientation starting this week and lectures back in full swing we wanted to share some of Brendan Kennelly's lecture notes from when he was Professor of Modern Literarutre Trinity College Dublin BrendanKennellyTrust #EYABackToSchool #EYAArAisArScoil #CuardaighDoChartlann #ExploreYourArchive

Ubiquitous yellow livery buses for school transport in rural Ireland🚍🇮🇪; snaps ex-IRRS Archive for this month's #archive theme of #EYABackToSchool #EYAArAisArScoil #CuardaighDoChartlann #ExploreYourArchive

#IrishResistance A huge shout-out to that digilent but too-often overlooked group of people who made 'The Irish in the Resistance' possible - ARCHIVISTS! Without them, for instance, we would not have been able to prove that Janie McCarthy, a teacher from Killarney, was involved

It's #ExploreYourArchive day! From lesson plans to school photographs, attendance registers to graduation memorabilia, share your favourite back to school finds with us! Get involved using the hashtags, and remember to tag us in your posts. #EYABackToSchool #EYAArAisArScoil

The High School, Dublin was established in 1870 to train boys for the civil service, colonial service, the army, the world of commerce, and university. The school plans can be discovered in the Erasmus Smith Schools Archive in DRI doi.org/10.7486/DRI.g4… #EYABackToSchool

For four decades, Catriona Crowe fought the good fight to get our historical archives into the hands of the Irish people. Best known for her work around the digitisation of the 1901 and 1911 census returns, there were many other great achievements and small victories for those

"The big picture outcome of the Decade of Centenaries is the idea that the vibrancy of the study of history is archival-based. The public response validates the study of history, the investment in collections and the employment of professional archivists" soundcloud.com/archive-nation…