Rebranding at Galway Museum Fáilte Ireland, through the National Tourism Development Authority, has committed a record €6.64m to develop a new state-of-the art museum in Galway city. Rebranded as the Atlantic Museum Galway, the new three-story interactive museum will be developed at Comerford House, next to the current Galway City Museum, which stands on the left … Read more
Enhancing user access to the town’s oldest municipal minutes. By Gráinne Doran and Linda Doran Wexford County Archive is the official repository for the archives and records of local government in County Wexford, in addition to an extensive range of archival collections of private origin. The archive facilitates academic, local and family history … Read more
BY AODHÁN CREALEY JANUARY 06/1834 Richard Martin (79), landowner and politician, died. Residing in Dangan House, some four miles upstream on the Corrib from Galway city, Martin, who sat in both the Irish House of Commons and the British House of Commons, was the owner of the largest estate in Ireland, some 200,000 acres. Renowned … Read more
Handwritten news was exchanged across Europe in what was a lucrative and powerful network. By Eoin Hahessy Irish research has found an entirely lost news environment in the Medici papers at Florence’s State Archives. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries early modern Europe communicated by handwritten newsletters, many of which had been forgotten until now. … Read more