#WorldOceansDay.
‘No daughter of mine will leave home except as a married woman’. Born on Valentia Island, self-taught marine biologist Maud Delap was the first person to successfully breed jellyfish in captivity. Our colleague Angela Byrne has put together a short reel about her life.
This month's @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social theme is #EYAColourful!
These eye-catching embroidered postcards can be discovered in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association Archive deposited in DRI by @dclareadingroom.bsky.social
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Today is the feast day of St Columba (Colum Cille), who according to tradition, wrote the Cathach (RIA MS 12 R 33).
This month it will be on display in the @rialibrary.bsky.social on 26 June from 10:00-16:30. Come visit!
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Today is the feast day of St Columba (Colum Cille), who according to tradition, wrote the Cathach (RIA MS 12 R 33) as a copy of a Latin psalter belonging to St Finnian in a single night. A dispute arose about the ownership of the copy leading to the battle of Cúl Dreimne in AD 561.