Dr Peter Crooks (right) with Dr Séamus Lawless, Assistant Professor of the ADAPT Centre, and Zoë Reid, National Archives of Ireland senior conservator, with a 19th century transcript of a medieval manuscript damaged by the shrapnel during the Four Courts attack
Millions of Ireland’s historical and genealogical records lost in Dublin’s Four Courts fire of 1922 will be digitally recreated as part of a ground-breaking new project.
Seven centuries of English government records concerning Ireland were destroyed when the Public Record Office (PRO) of Ireland went up in flames at the outset of the Irish Civil War. The archive’s collections touched on almost every aspect of life in Ireland, from births, marriages and deaths to wills, maps, parish registers and town records.