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.
Opening Hours
Monday to Friday
PLEASE NOTE: We will open on Monday 22nd July at 12 noon.
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.
19.07.19
Vacancy – Director of the National Archives
The vacancy for the position of Director of the National Archives is now advertised by PublicJobs.ie. See here for more...
19.07.01
July 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
19.06.18
Summer events at the National Archives
The National Archives summer lectures continue with expert sessions on a variety of topics including testamentary and court records, digitisation...
Education and Outreach
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National Archives
Bishop Street,
Dublin 8,
Ireland
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