We curate private paper collections documenting the modern Irish State; UCD; and many elements of the Franciscan manuscript patrimony. www.ucd.ie/archiveshttps://bsky.app/profile/ucdarchives.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ucdarchives.bsky.social/post/3mki4wxwy722zJohn Maxwell arrived in Dublin #OTD 1916, replacing Lovick Friend as Commander-in-Chief, Ireland. Photograph of the War Office document appointing Lieutenant General Sir John Maxwell, KCB, Commander-in-Chief of British Forces in Ireland (28 April 1916). 1/327 Apr 2026 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:haa74v4feowinvczksrdivfj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mki4wxwy722zhttps://bsky.app/profile/ucdarchives.bsky.social/post/3mk3kg5oopc24#OTD 1916, Eóin MacNeill (Chief of Staff of the Irish Volunteers) issued a countermanding order to stop the Rising, published in the Sunday Independent. He also issued handwritten copies of the countermanding order. The one below is addressed to Eamon de Valera. #EasterRising #1916Rising 1/222 Apr 2026 12:58 +0000at://did:plc:haa74v4feowinvczksrdivfj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3kg5oopc24https://bsky.app/profile/ucdarchives.bsky.social/post/3mjersowkf22mCome and work with us! (Well slightly adjacent to us but we are all rowing in the same boat!) [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Apr 2026 11:39 +0000at://did:plc:haa74v4feowinvczksrdivfj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjersowkf22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/ucdarchives.bsky.social/post/3mixwr35zbc2eMargaret Thatcher died #OTD 2013. @ucddublin.bsky.social history graduate, Patrick Cosgrave acted as a Special Advisor to Thatcher from 1975 and 1979. A collection of his papers is available for consultation by appointment in our reading room. https://www.ucd.ie/archives/collections/depositedcollections/items/collectionname235056en.html08 Apr 2026 09:03 +0000at://did:plc:haa74v4feowinvczksrdivfj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mixwr35zbc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/ucdarchives.bsky.social/post/3mivrwa5elc2dOur April Document of the Month is online. A group of three photos taken during Eamon de Valera’s visit to Liverpool during his Anti-Partition tours of Great Britain in 1948 and 1949. https://www.ucd.ie/archives/collections/month/07 Apr 2026 12:32 +0000at://did:plc:haa74v4feowinvczksrdivfj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mivrwa5elc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/ucdarchives.bsky.social/post/3mivkmsungc2pJohn Charles McQuaid, RC Archbishop of Dublin, d #OTD 1973. Eamon de Valera, President of Ireland, pays his respects to McQuaid at the Belfield campus turning-the-sod ceremony in 1962. Michael Tierney, President of @ucddublin.bsky.social, stands beside them. (c) Irish Press, used by permission.07 Apr 2026 10:21 +0000at://did:plc:haa74v4feowinvczksrdivfj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mivkmsungc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/ucdarchives.bsky.social/post/3mit5hujek222We don't hold an original proclamation but we do hold fragments. Read about them online in a post by Mick O’Farrell on the @ucdlibrary.bsky.social Cultural Heritage Blog. https://ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2021/08/19/do-you-have-a-favourite-proclamation/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Apr 2026 11:20 +0000at://did:plc:haa74v4feowinvczksrdivfj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mit5hujek222https://bsky.app/profile/ucdarchives.bsky.social/post/3mijdsjedps2uWorks for the new Cultural Heritage Centre are underway on Level 1 of the James Joyce Library. While we are working to minimise disruption, readers can expect intermittent noise in the reading room. Thank you for your patience.02 Apr 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:haa74v4feowinvczksrdivfj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijdsjedps2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/ucdarchives.bsky.social/post/3mhky6qz7fs27Aois Criost, 932 Uallach, inghen Muimhnecháin, bainécces Ereann, d'écc. The Age of Christ, 932. Uallach, daughter of Muimhneachan, chief poetess of Ireland, died. #WorldPoetryDay online isos.dias.ie21 Mar 2026 11:59 +0000at://did:plc:haa74v4feowinvczksrdivfj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhky6qz7fs27https://bsky.app/profile/ucdarchives.bsky.social/post/3mhaxz2uglk23The Age of Christ, 431. The third year of Laeghaire. Saint Patrick was ordained bishop by the holy Pope, Celestine the First, who ordered him to go to Ireland, to preach and teach faith and piety to the Gaeidhil, and also to baptize them. UCD-OFM Ms A13 Annals of the Four Masters 1/317 Mar 2026 12:29 +0000at://did:plc:haa74v4feowinvczksrdivfj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhaxz2uglk23https://bsky.app/profile/ucdarchives.bsky.social/post/3mhaxmpzvvk23Aois Criost, ceithre céd triocha a h-aon. An tres bhliadhain do Laoghaire. Ro h-oirdneadh naomh Pattraicc i n-espuccoide lasa naomh-papa an ced Celestinus, ro furail fair tocht dochum n-Ereann, do shenmóir & do proicept credmhi & crabhaidh do Gaoidhealaibh, & dia m-baitseadh idir. 1/217 Mar 2026 12:22 +0000at://did:plc:haa74v4feowinvczksrdivfj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhaxmpzvvk23https://bsky.app/profile/ucdarchives.bsky.social/post/3mh6cs23tk227The feast day of St Patrick is tomorrow. He shares his day with St Failtigern, a holy woman, now obscure, whose name is recorded in Félire Óenguso/Martyrology of Óengus, UCD-OFM MS A7, f 13r, C15th. H/T @elvabjohnston.bsky.social16 Mar 2026 11:04 +0000at://did:plc:haa74v4feowinvczksrdivfj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh6cs23tk227https://bsky.app/profile/ucdarchives.bsky.social/post/3mgmwqavpa227Kate will give a talk to @irisharchives1970.bsky.social on 18 March, 6.00pm in The Conference Room, Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street, Dublin 2: The Archives of the Fianna Fáil Party: A Case Study of Political Party Archives and Their Role in a Democratic State' 1/209 Mar 2026 13:13 +0000at://did:plc:haa74v4feowinvczksrdivfj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgmwqavpa227https://bsky.app/profile/ucdarchives.bsky.social/post/3mgkdryhfe22lSt Clare of Assisi (1194-1253) was the first woman to write a Rule of Life for her own monastic religious order for women, the Order of Poor Ladies. Following her death, the order was renamed in her honour as the Order of Saint Clare, commonly referred to as the Poor Clares. #InternationalWomensDay08 Mar 2026 12:29 +0000at://did:plc:haa74v4feowinvczksrdivfj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgkdryhfe22l