Information On Archives In Ireland For Teachers, Students, Researchers and Genealogists.
Welcome To Learnaboutarchives.ie
This website is hosted by the Archives & Records Association, 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 (Irish Archives Google Map) 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?
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Latest News
| (02 August 2011) |
| Archive Awareness Events 2011 |
| Events arranged by Dublin City Library and Archives, Representative Church Body Library, Irish Architectural Archive, RCPI, Jackie Clarke Library, Military Archives, Irish Jesuit Archives, Tallaght Library, Waterford County Library, Strokestown Exhibition, National Gallery of Ireland and Waterford City Archives. Launch of the Archive Awareness Campaign 2011, 25th August at the National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar by Professor Roy Foster, University of Oxford. We will also be celebrating the publication of the 5th edition of the Directory of Irish Archives. |
| (04 August 2011) |
| ARA, Ireland Newsletter Summer 2011 |
| Somerville and Ross, Landed Estates Database Project, North Strand Bombing, Archive Awareness Campaign 2011, Vice-Brigadier Joe Murray, Galway Arts Festival Archive, Belfast College of Technology, Annie Brophy Photographic Collection, Shelbourne FC Oral History Project, Pier Luigi Nervi. |
| (12 July 2011) |
| Directory of Irish Archives |
| Fifth Edition, edited by Seamus Helferty & Raymond Refaussé now published. |
| (28 June 2011) |
| Archive Awareness Campaign 2011 |
| Call for Irish archives to get involved and announcement of campaign. |
| (01 June 2011) |
| Building a Transparent Society |
| The Archives and Records Association Ireland and the Information and Records Management Society Ireland are pleased to announce their fifth annual joint meeting in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Titanic Quarter, Belfast on Thursday 9 June 2011. |