In 1919, Herbert Wood, Assistant Deputy Keeper of Public Records, published a comprehensive guide to records deposited in the Public Record Office of Ireland (PROI). This Guide plays a central role for academic researchers in not only establishing what records existed prior to the destruction of the PROI during the Civil War in 1922, but also what records survived.
The Guide has been digitised and can be downloaded here:
21.03.08
Sources for Women’s History
Did you know that the oldest record we hold relating to a woman is a memoranda roll from 1309? That...
Research guides & sources
20.08.18
List of Teachers Employed by the Commissioners of National Education on 31 March 1905
Privy Council Office: List of Teachers Employed by the Commissioners of National Education on 31 March 1905 This list was...
Research guides & sources