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!
🔈The DRI repository (repository.dri.ie) and the @irelandmapped.bsky.social archive (www.irelandmapped.ie) will be down between 9am and 11am on Tuesday 9 June 2026 to perform essential maintenance dri.ie/news/reposit...
#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.
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Autodocs Ltd is a specialist in the #digitisation and production of digital archive copies. They can handle anything you can throw at them: from 300-year-old books to MRI scans! Come along to their vendor booth and find out more.
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Happy #WorldBicycleDay. To protect his son from the jolting caused by the solid rubber tyres of his tricycle on the cobbled streets of Belfast, John Boyd Dunlop improvised an air-filled rubber tube tacked-on with linen cloth which became the basis of the Pneumatic Tyre. www.dib.ie/biography/du...
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Developed in collaboration with Waterford’s Transported Women, A Herstory, Grangegorman Histories, @dri.ie , SETU Library and the RIA IT team, the exhibition brings together digitised archival records, poetry and handcrafted memorials to honour women whose stories have been overlooked.
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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.
