News and announcements from ARA Ireland.
The Heritage Council is seeking specialists for their Heritage in Schools Post‑Primary Programme, which supports school visits from experts across Ireland’s natural, built, and cultural heritage.
Voting is now open for the 2026 ARA Excellence Awards!
In October 2025 ARA Ireland launched an online lecture series promoting the principles of diversity and inclusion across archival collections and the wider record-keeping community, with the aim of forging new paths for positive change. The year-long programme included eleven…
The ARA Ireland Committee is made up of members from across Ireland and from a variety of different organisations. The aim is to get a broad range of experience and contributions from across the sector to help us represent members…
The Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport invites applications to appoint 10 suitably qualified candidates, including a Chairperson, to sit on the National Archives Advisory Council (NAAC).
We are looking for nominations for this year’s Archive Volunteering Award. Last year we had an exceptional seven entries – all of them brilliant projects in their own right – making the judging panel’s job quite hard. Nominating yourself or…
As a publicly funded repository for Ireland’s social and cultural data, DRI recognises the importance of ensuring that long-term preservation of digital materials is accessible to a diverse range of organisations or individuals, including those with limited or no funding.…
At a recent committee meeting, it was announced that Ashley Williams has taken up the role of Honorary Secretary. This has left one vacant position in the committee for a Recording Secretary. If interested in joining please feel free to get…
The Heritage Council, in partnership with the School of History at University College Dublin (UCD), is proud to announce a new bursary to support students undertaking the MA in Archives and Records Management.
Following on from our recent AGM in April, the ARA Ireland Committee currently have two vacant roles to fill. If interested in joining the committee and taking up a role as our Honorary Secretary or Training Officer, please feel free to…
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Stories from archives across Ireland: collections, projects, and the people who look after them.