Suffragettes and prison conditions in Ireland
The National Archives collects, manages and preserves the public record of Ireland, ensuring its availability both as a resource and to safeguard citizens’ rights.
Christmas hours:
We will be closed from 12:30pm Tuesday 24th December until Wednesday 1st January.
The Reading Room will re-open from 10am Thursday January 2nd 2020.
Our Decade of Centenaries website charts the historical development of Ireland from 1912 to 1923, a decade which was the most turbulent and transformative experienced by Ireland in the 20th century.
Our Genealogy Website provides free access to digitised collections that are useful to family and local history research.
The records of the Chief Secretary’s Office constitute one of the most valuable collections of original source material for research into Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Our Anglo-Irish Treaty, 1921 website, first launched in 2011 to mark the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty, draws upon the rich documentary holdings of original Irish Government records held in the National Archives.
19.12.10
December Document of the Month
Throughout 2019, our Documents of the Month will be selected from the archives of the Department of Foreign Affairs and...
Document of the month
19.10.10
Workshop for History Teachers – 9 November
‘Registers, scrolls, rolls and pictures' - a free workshop for secondary school history teachers on the Famine, the GAA and...
19.06.18
Autumn evening lecture series
The National Archives lectures continue this autumn with a talk by Michael Walsh (MAGI) on 'The Griffith Valuation and its...
Education and Outreach
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