Carlow County Library will host the Virtual Treasury Roadshow – a chance for people to learn about their local history in this exciting new online resource. When the Public Record Office of Ireland was destroyed during the Battle of the Four Courts in June 1922, seven centuries of Irish history went up in smoke. In recent years historians, archivists and computer scientists have been searching in archives and libraries, at home and abroad, hunting for any copies that can help replace these lost records.
The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland was launched in June 2022, providing the public free online access to tens of thousands of replacement records, with over 50 million words of searchable text, collected from seventy partner archives and libraries around the globe. Now, the Virtual Treasury team is coming to Carlow to share the results of their research.
This evening the Virtual Treasury Roadshow will visit Carlow Library, Tullow Street to show digital records that help tell the story of Carlow and its people from the 19th century back to medieval times. Christopher Power, Local Studies Library, Carlow County Library and Louise Kennedy, Archivist, Carlow County Council, will share resources for local history. Other speakers will include Ciarán Wallace, Lynn Kilgallon, and Brian Gurrin from the Virtual Treasury will each present on various facets of the project. The roadshow visit will take place in Carlow Library at 6:30 pm.
