Welcome To Learnaboutarchives.ie
This website is hosted by the Society of Archivists Ireland in order to provide a practical and interesting online information service for the general public (but more especially educators and their students) on archival material and archive services in Ireland.Using this website you can learn about the enormously diverse and exciting historical resources available in archive services around the country, where to find them and how to use them. Many of the archive services have provided digitised examples of some of the most significant and popular collections which they hold.
- Beginning Your Research
- Visiting An Archives Service
- Explanation Of Primary and Secondary Sources
- What Are Archives And Archive Services?
If you are a student or teacher you can find digitised documents on specific periods in history by clicking on 'Sample Documents'. These are gathered from archive services around the country and can be printed out for use in the classroom or for your own study purposes.
We hope that this will provide all the information you will need to begin researching and using archival documents. In particular the site aims to provide educators with inspiration for teaching with archives in the classroom. Students at all levels will find information on how to develop their research skills through using archival documents.
LearnAboutArchives.ie is supported by the Heritage Council of Ireland. The Heritage Council promotes interest, education, knowledge and pride in the national heritage
Latest News
| (28 July 2010) |
| Archive Awareness Events 2010 |
| Archive Awareness Events 2010 |
| (28 July 2010) |
| Archive Awareness 2010 |
| The Archive Awareness Campaign is an annual event, organised by the Archives & Records Association in Ireland and the United Kingdom, formerly known as Society of Archivists. |
| (30 June 2010) |
| ARA Newsletter Summer 2010 |
| Articles on the North Strand Bombing, Gaiety School of Acting Archives, Representative Church Body, Ancestral Interiors at the IAA, Unitarianism in Ireland, Historical Journeys: Travelling through Time, Donegal County Archives, 02 Ability Award for Dublin Public Libraries and Archives and the Reformatory, Industrial and Training Schools Archive at PRONI |
| (25 June 2010) |
| New round up |
| Irish genealogy details go online (16 June 2010) Ancestral Interiors, an exhibition of photographs now on in the Irish Architectural Archive gallery (19 June 2010) |
| (18 June 2010) |
| New round up |
| Society of Archivists, Ireland now Archives and Records Association, Ireland (18 June 2010) 'Take time to explore this online blast from the past' (12 June 2010) Office of Public Works to Take in Charge the Cashel Bolton Library (25 May 2010) |