The Military Archives The Military Archives New blog article selected #MSPCR16 highlights re people and events in #Mayo #Sligo #Wexford #Tipperary #Kerry #Belfast and more militarypensions.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/ira… #MSPCR16 The Irish Story Centenaries@HistIrl DF Public Relations Director #staysafe

The Luftwaffe bombed Dublin's North Strand #OTD 1941, killing 28 people. This memo from Joseph P. Walshe to Eamon de Valera records what the representative of Nazi Germany in Dublin, Eduard Hempel, had to say about the bombing. Text online Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: difp.ie/volume-7/1941/…

The latest UCD Library #CulturalHeritage Collections blog post, written by Ailbe van der Heide National Folklore Collection UCD, illustrates the invaluable insights & contributions of part-time collector Mary B. Dunphy of South Wexford, a teacher & expert in local folklore.
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Up next CONUL Conference: at 4pm Head of UCD Special Collections Evelyn Flanagan is presenting on the UCD community engagement initiative Poetry as Commemoration, a catalyst for sparking memory & helping to heal historical & generational trauma through the medium of poetry. poetryascommemoration.ie
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Please note that the deadline for applications is 3pm on Wednesday 26 June, 2024. Details in post below.

Yesterday Orla Feely visited UCD Library to discuss the achievements & ambitions of the Library as well as challenges and opportunities, and the new UCD Strategy with the Library Executive Team.

We also shared some treasures from UCD Archives & UCD Special Collections during the visit!

'...We claim for our national independence the recognition and support of every free nation in the world, and we proclaim that independence to be a condition precedent to International peace hereafter:...'

Declaration of Independence
Dublin, 21 January 1919

🚨 #MSPC file release #R16
Tomorrow Wednesday 29 May, 967 names will be added to the database, along with their full archival description. That's about 2,350 scanned files entering the public domain. Enjoy! #IrishArchives

'Military victory must be allowed to rest for the moment with those who have destroyed the Republic'

De Valera to Republican forces after Cease Fire/Dump Arms order #OTD 1923: The Republic can no longer be defended successfully by your arms...The sufferings which you must now face unarmed you will bear in a manner worthy of men who were ready to give their lives for their cause.

Frank Aiken, described by J E Jones, general secretary of Plaid Cymru, in 1948 as “a particular friend of Wales.”

Interesting article by John Dorney using lots of sources from collections in UCDA. All available to use in our reading room.

IRA HQ 24 May 1923 | Special Army Order | Cease Fire - Dump Arms: 'The Government and Army Council have decided to order that armed resistance to Free State 'Government' will cease. To avoid armed conflicts it is necessary that the arms of all ranks be dumped...' Frank Aiken, CoS

Contaminated shellfish can harbour all sorts of nasty bugs … learn how a London-inspired sewage system ended up spreading typhoid bacteria in Dublin Bay. Typhoid, Cockles, and Terrorism launches June 16: typhoidland.org.
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I was so excited to learn that this sample of the handwriting of Ross MacGeoghegan OP survives (UCD-OFM MS A 31, ISOS). He was a very brave man, and essentially established the structures of formation in Spain and Louvain that ensured the Irish Dominicans would have a future. 1/2

Lady Gregory d. #OTD 1932. W.B. Yeats writes to James McNeill re her death: ‘I have indeed lost my conscience and my strength. She was indomitable to the end, forgetting no duty or habitual occupation unto the day she died. … The great house, so full of tradition, has died...'

Orna’s blog is a great read and summary. He had one of those wonderful voices which I can still hear perfectly.

UCDA P358 Brian Farrell and Marie-Thérèse Dillon Correspondence is now available to consult in our reading room.

Archivist Orna Somerville, who catalogued the collection, wrote about it here: ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2024/05/02/let…

Catalogue online here:
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