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"Doing business in Ireland 1711-1860" a #HistFest25 public lecture Explore the origins of Irish businesses through the invaluable records of the Registry of Deeds. 4 Oct | 11 am | 45 Merrion Sq irishmanuscripts.ie/foh2025/ @HistFest @TailteEireann

Word cloud showing the huge range of business reflected in the Partnership memorials in @TailteEireann

@irishmanuscript Nicola Morris details the ground breaking introduction of limited liability for investors in order to stimulate business in Ireland in 1782

#HistFest2025 event at 45 Merrion Square this morning, with @TailteEireann and Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland.

#HistFest2025 public lecture tomorrow: Doing Business in Ireland 1711-1860 45 Merrion Square | 11 am No booking required — first come, first served!

#HistFest2025 Tomorrow Sat 4 Oct — Business in Ireland, 1711–1860  — hear about the introduction of legislation in 1781 to improve and grow the Irish economy. Public lecture, no booking required. irishmanuscripts.ie/foh2025/

#HistFest2025 lecture: Business in Ireland, 1802 Find out if Rudolf Ackerman’s patent was successful in ‘rendering woollen cloths, cotton, linen, silk, hats, paper and other substances water proof and impenetrable to rain’. Original @TailteEireann memorial in @virtualtreasury

#HistFest2025 Business in Ireland, 1786 — hear about the five Tait sisters from Louth backed by anonymous partners to start a thread factory using the latest technology — the Spinning Jenny. See the original @TailteEireann memorial in the @virtualtreasury irishmanuscripts.ie/foh2025/

You can now find us on #Bluesky bsky.app/profile/irishm…

PRONI is open late next Thursday! 💫📜 On the 27/02/25 we will be open from 10am - 8pm with document ordering available until 7:15pm. A "Getting Started at PRONI" workshop will also be running from 6pm - 7:20pm⏰ Booking is essential for workshop: bit.ly/41hcb1j

Join Oein De Bhairduin, as he explores the traditions of midwifery in Traveller culture & highlights unique objects from the museum’s collection. 📅Talk: Midwifery in Traveller Culture ⏲️ Saturday, 22 February, 2 pm 📌 Turlough Park, Castlebar, Mayo museum.ie/en-IE/Museums/…

Maddock Fellow John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn kindly striking a pose to show off the reading room's very nifty #ScanTent from @Transkribus, which he's using to photograph (slightly mysterious) Spanish & Italian manuscripts in the reading room

20 Feb 1610: beatification ceremony for Ignatius Loyola, founder of the #Jesuit order attended by #Dublin #Jesuit, Henry Fitzsimon #otd (BM) For Jesuit promotion in Ireland of the cult of Ignatius & Francis Xavier, see the Annual Letters published by @irishmanuscript

20 Feb 1641: Sir John Temple made Master of the Rolls in #Ireland & Privy Councillor #otd He was later an influential writer on the 1641 rebellion. For firsthand accounts of the violent events of 1641, see the 1641 Depositions series from @irishmanuscript

Last chance to get copies of these editions … fewer than 5 copies of each on our shelves … check out these titles and our latest publications at irishmanuscripts.ie

Read more about Lebor na hUidre, also known as the Book of the Dun Cow, and find the link to the digital copy on @DIAS_ISOS at this link: ria.ie/collections/ma… And if you are in the Dublin city area, call in between 10am-4.30pm this week to see the real thing on display!

For #ExploreYourArchive theme #Decisions we have selected one of the wills registered in the Registry of Deeds. The will of Abraham Hill who died in 1777 made the decision to leave his son ‘one British shilling and no more’ to reflect past grievances between the two.

CPR vol 21 covers the 2nd & final tranche of the Lateran Registers for Leo X (1513–1521). It brings to light a great deal of biographical and topographical information illustrating the ecclesiastical landscape of the British & Irish islands. Available now irishmanuscripts.ie/product/cpr21/

The IHTA's Sarah Gearty gave her presentation as part of the @RIAdawson Research Day on 'Placing our heritage: creating and preserving the Digital Atlas of Cork'