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UCD's archives; private paper collections documenting the modern Irish State; and many elements of the Franciscan manuscript patrimony. @[email protected]
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A beautiful blog post by UCD Archives University College Dublin to mark the release of love letters my parents wrote to each other in the year before their marriage in Harvard where my father was studying for his Masters
Letters Across the Atlantic ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2024/05/02/let…
The latest post on the UCD Library Cultural Heritage Blog is about a new collection which will soon be available in our reading room: UCDA P358 Letters of Brian Farrell and Marie-Thérèse Dillon. It is written by Orna Somerville, Archivist, UCDA.
ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2024/05/02/let…
#Vaccines have been 🔑 to controlling major #bacterial diseases for >120 years - but early #vaccine testing could be controversial. This June, explore the history of #typhoid vaccine #innovation & #clinicaltrials in what was Dublin's Richmond District Lunatic Asylum…
The Easter Rising began #OTD 1916. We hold fragments of an original proclamation which were ‘pasted on the wall of the G.P.O. Dublin. April 24th 1916.'
Mick O'Farrell digitally restored our fragments to their original place, and wrote about them here:
ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2021/08/19/do-…
I wonder if the 'absolutely reliable source' mentioned in this 'Secret' document was 'Granite' or 'Chalk' ?
In 1916, as the rebels prepared for rebellion, 2 spies were observing them, codenamed Granite & Chalk.
They've never been identified.
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