UCD Archive’s first post of 2026 concerns one of its small collections: a letter from Alice Hillstead Mušek, Hradec Králové, Czechoslovakia, to J. Grierson, 1 Herbert Street, Dublin.
Daniel Samek has written an interesting
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UCD Archive’s first post of 2026 concerns one of its small collections: a letter from Alice Hillstead Mušek, Hradec Králové, Czechoslovakia, to J. Grierson, 1 Herbert Street, Dublin.
Daniel Samek has written an interesting
As referenced in a past blogpost on the coming of spring, a folk belief found in Ireland explains that catching sight of the first lamb of the new year will bring luck if the
Following the Easter Rising in 1916, Éamon de Valera was imprisoned first, in Mountjoy jail and then, following the commutation of his death sentence, in four English prisons — Dartmoor, Lewes, Maidstone, and Pentonville. He was released under the general amnesty i...
This blogpost was originally supposed to be about our acetate disc digitisation and publication project as we near its end but after the launch of our latest and last (for a while) batch of acetate discs at this year’s Oireachtas na Samhna festival, it was clear that the festival itself was the real story. With the festival now finished for another year I thought it would be ...
The Henry Roe Room / Christ Church Cathedral Music Room (