New round up

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On 16th June 2010, Mary Hanafin T.D., Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport and the Archbishop of Dublin, The Most Rev. Dr. John R.W. Neill, launched the remaining Church of Ireland records of Dublin City and counties Kerry and Carlow. Also, a subset of the Roman Catholic parishes in the Diocese of Cork & Ross have also been added. In addition to these records, digital images of the original church records, relating to these areas, are now available to view on this website. Working is progressing on the completion of the Dublin City and South & West Cork Roman Catholic records. The release of further records for on-line access will proceed on a phased basis. Please refer to the "Update of Progress" section in this website for news of upcoming releases.

Ancestral Interiors, an exhibition of the Irish Country House by Patrick Prendergast in th Irish Architectural Archive gallery.
This exhibition puts on display a group of previously unpublished photographs by Patrick Prendergast which look afresh at life in the Irish country house in the closing decades of the last century. These remarkable images take as their subject matter the very clutter which had been rigorously removed from sight in earlier photographs of Irish interiors. The emphasis is on houses still in the ownership of the families who built them, fewer and fewer of which survive today.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0619/1224272838563.html
Article in the Irish Times entitled 'Eavesdropping on hidden past lives' by Eileen Battersby (19 June 2010)