The register of Voluntary Aid Detachments in Ireland during WW1, among those listed in the Women's detachments is Letitia Overend Airfield Estate , Commandant of the Dundrum division. #CountryHouseArchives

18 June 1798, Lady Louisa Conolly describes the 1798 Rebellion Castletown House had transformed into a garrison '18 soldiers sleeping in our drawing room’, and ‘there are 80 men at Celbridge + 300 at Leixlip the conjunction of which I hope will make a stand sufficient against them’

The Jury's Auction sale catalogue from the John Holohan archive, c. 1970s includes images of Georgian South Frederick Street. Laid out in the 1730s as a fashionable enclave of houses, South Frederick Street was transformed during the 20th century with a series of demolitions.

Delighted to speak to the BA Local Studies summer school students Maynooth History for their module Irish Art, 1746-1922. Nicola, Archivist spoke to students about the decorative arts collections in OMARC's care.

A series of photographs taken of Kilgarvan village, Co. Kerry dated c. 1900. They were taken by members of the Orpen family, Ardtully Castle. We would love to know if anyone recognizes any local businesses etc. from the below photograph!

The theme for the month of July is #EYASustainability / #EYAInbhuanaitheachta - use it to share materials from your collections that relate! 🌍♻️🏞 #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann

Read the latest piece on our blog 'The Ardtully Papers: A packet of letters and their survival' by Elizabeth Knowles. opwmuarchiveandresearch.wordpress.com/2024/07/05/the…

On 5 Dec 1917, William Upton Tyrrell thanks his mother for a care package sent to him at the front, with 'the fruit, chocolate & in fact everything....that parcel could not possibly have come at a better time - & again thanks vey much indeed for it.' #WorldChocolateDay

A notebook, c. 1860s, with Orpen family memories of Ardtully Castle 'the new house at Ardtully has begun in 1864 and completed in 1866, the old one having become very bad and unsafe in some parts...it had been a very pleasant home and there many happy memories attached to it.'

We're delighted to collaborate with Society for Old Lucan (SOL) to provide a free workshop in archive transcription skills! Taking place on Wednesday 24th July at 6pm in Lucan Library. *Booking essential* Please register by emailing [email protected] with your name & 'Vesey' in the subject.

Quite a detailed invoice from Clifford & Black Dentists with illustrations sent to W. J. H Tyrrell in 1902! Not something we usually come by in a land agents papers!

Are you part of a local history or heritage group? The Irish Community Archive Network (iCAN), in collaboration with The Heritage Council, local authorities, and community groups across Ireland, has created a guide to help such groups plan for the future. museum.ie/en-IE/News/New…

Photographs of Letita Overend, Honorary Secretary, and colleagues in the Irish War Hospital Supply Depot.The IWHSD was the main depot for medical supplies in Ireland, they produced & shiped surgical supplies for military hospitals in the British Empire, Belgium & France.

In addition to country house archives, we also care for periodicals including over 300 issues of Country Life magazine. This issue for April 1969 features an article on Castletown House by Maurice Craig and Desmond Fitxgerald, Knight of Glin. #CountryHouseArchives

A photograph taken c.1958 of the housemaid Julia in a yard with the farm cats at Airfield Estate #InternationalCatDay

Miss Deborah Ball writes to her land agent William JH Tyrrell in distress, c. 1911, as the family struggles to find servants for Mount Lucas: 'we find it impossible to get all Protestant servants, so we must ask you to look out for an R.C stable man (or boy not too young)'

What personalised bookplates tell us can be "much more fascinating stories than in the books themselves", as a visitor rightly remarked! Identifying with Books - an Exhibition of Ex Libris Bookplates launched for #HeritageWeek2024 ✨More on our Instagram: specialibrary_mu✨

Lady Louisa Conolly's personal account book for c.1800-1810, documented is her support of the Charter School in Celbridge and the 'Poor of Celbridge' fund. #CountryHouseArchives

Happy #InternationalDogDay! Learn more about Lady Louisa Conolly's beloved furry companion Hibbou in our blog post: opwmuarchiveandresearch.wordpress.com/2017/11/22/exp…

It's with great sadness we learned of the passing of Jeanne Meldon Walsh this weekend. Jeanne was a wonderful friend of the archive and research centre over the years. We would like to wish her extended family our deepest condolences.