Ordnance Survey letters comprising correspondence between John O’Donovan (1806-1861) and other researchers employed on the survey and OS head office staff. OS Letters exist for 29

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Scans of drawings made as part of the Ordnance Survey Memoirs scheme. Originally, the OS Memoirs were meant to accompany the first edition maps and include information about the p

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This research was funded by a Royal Irish Academy Kevin B. Nowlan research grant received in 2023. The project digitised military strength returns for the island of Ireland for the

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This research was funded by a Royal Irish Academy Kevin B. Nowlan research grant in 2021. The project digitised student records and ordination class portraits for St. Kieran's Coll

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The austerity that followed the recent economic and financial crisis has led to impassioned debates across the social sciences and the public at large. Although Ireland was not its

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A major programme of archaeological excavation commenced on 18 June 1962 at the passage tomb cemetery at Knowth, Co Meath. This research excavation continued on a seasonal basis fo

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'Unearthed: impacts of the Tellus surveys of the north of Ireland details how this unprecedented land and air survey of hidden Ireland rewards us with a more complete understanding

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This is a collection of 40 photographs taken 17-18 May 1916 by Thomas Johnson Westropp, 1860-1922. Westropp placed them in an album entitled, ‘Ruined buildings in Dublin after the

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