Centenary Special
This special monthly series features selected documents from UCD Archives which give a particular insight into events in Ireland 100 years ago.
The final years of the workhouse and its dissolution
In this post a video recording of a conference paper by Professor Mary E. Daly (UCD). The paper – The final years of the workhouse and its dissolution – was given as part of a Birr Historical Society conference on Birr Workhouse which took place in September 2013.
Terence MacSwiney Letter (January 30 1914)
The first of a monthly series of ‘From the Archives’ documents, (Revolutionary Decade Archival Collection) finds a 35 year old Terence MacSwiney writing to his sister Margaret (Peg), a nun then living in America and working as a teacher while writing a doctoral dissertation on the German philosopher and Nobel laureate, Rudolf Eucken.
Press Photographs of Eamon de Valera
In 2010 Professor Diarmaid Ferriter (UCD School of History and Archives) gave a presentation on a selection of images from the Press Photographs of Éamon de Valera, a UCD Digital Library Collection.
The life of Cardinal Newman
Dr Stephen Kelly (Liverpool Hope University) looks at the life of Cardinal John Henry Newman.
