Blogs

Bailiúchán Thionscadal Gréasáin Cheirníní Doegen – Guthanna an Ama atá thart á gCaomhnú

In celebration of Seachtain na Gaeilge we are pleased to highlight an important Irish language collection of audio recordings the Doegen Records.

‘The will of the people’: putting the referendum in the Irish constitution

In this month’s blog with voters due at the polls on 8 March to vote on two proposed constitutional amendments, Eoin Kinsella looks at how…

‘The Glimpses Behind the Façade’ – Uncovering Identity in the Shadow of Trauma

By ARINS writers

GUBU – origins of the phrase

In our February blog, Turlough O’Riordan discusses the sequence of events that led to the resignation of attorney general Patrick Connolly in August 1982, and…

Book sales, brothers, and Bonaparte!

In our latest library blog, a recent donation with an intriguing inscription offers a window into the life of the Haliday family and their fascinating…

Grangegorman Lives: Patrick O’Daly

On this day (1 February) in 1922, O’Daly orchestrated the handover of the Beggars Bush barracks from British troops.

Ireland’s Victorian ‘great detectives’

In our first Dictionary of Irish Biography blog of 2024, Patrick Maume highlights some examples of Irish ‘great detectives’, elusive figures who have nevertheless become…

Celebrating Irish Language in the Archives of Charles Vallancey MRIA

In the fourth and final post from our UCD Student Blog Series Roisin Costello takes a glimpse into the archive collection of engineer, antiquarian and…