Ireland’s undiscovered past: the 1800s
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🇮🇪 Ireland’s Undiscovered Past: The 1800s
📅 Date: Friday, October 3, 2025
🕑 Time: 2:00 PM BST (UK Time)
✅ Friday, October 3, 2025, at 6:00 AM PT
The history of 19th-century Ireland is often told through major events—the Act of Union, the Great Famine, and the push for land reform and Home Rule. But what about the forgotten voices of the time?
Join historian Gillian O’Brien as she explores the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland to bring to life lesser-known figures—men and women whose stories reveal surprising and powerful insights into the century that reshaped Ireland.
This online talk introduces the groundbreaking Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, a global digital humanities initiative to reconstruct Ireland’s lost national archives following the destruction of the Public Record Office in 1922.
Gillian O’Brien is Professor of Public History at Liverpool John Moores University, author of The Darkness Echoing, and a former Fulbright Scholar.
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👤 Speaker: Gillian O’Brien, Professor of Public History
This session also highlights the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, an ambitious international digital humanities project that seeks to digitally reconstruct Ireland’s lost archival heritage, destroyed in 1922 during the Irish Civil War.
Free admission • Virtual event • Registration required
Hosted by The National Archives, United Kingdom
The National Archives is the official archive and publisher for the UK government and for England and Wales. It is the guardian of some of the nation’s most iconic national documents, dating back over 1,000 years.
The National Archives is a non-ministerial department.