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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Transcriptions of the Ordnance Survey Memoir Papers done by Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams. These transcripts were published as a series of 40 volumes in 1990 in partnership

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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

University College Dublin

The Irish Stone Axe Project (ISAP) Digital Collection is an image catalogue containing scaled photographs, artefact drawings and images of petrographic thin sections (produced by m

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Abstract: The Richmond Hospital Medical Illustrations is a collection of illustrations depicting medical conditions treated at the Richmond Hospital, Dublin. The illustrations main

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Abstract: The three volumes in this collection contain hand written entries recording the details of students registered with Our Lady of Mercy Training College Baggot Street and C

University College Dublin

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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This archive of Irish dialect sound recordings made during 1928-31 contains folktales, songs and other material recited by native Irish speakers from 17 counties. Crucially, it inc

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The Cathach of St Columba is the oldest extant Irish illuminated manuscript, dating to c. AD 600. The surviving 58 folios contain psalms 30:10 to 105:13. It is understood that Colu

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Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) is a public history project for the study of modern Irish history through diplomacy. DIFP aims to make the history of Irish foreign policy

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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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