News and announcements from ARA Ireland.
Europeana Sport – Ireland’s Stories is a new online sports collection campaign running from June 2020 until the end of the year, under the Europeana Sport international collection campaign. Ireland’s Stories is seeking to engage with local communities, libraries, archives,…
We are delighted to announce that this year’s Explore Your Archive Ambassador for ARA Ireland is the historian, author and podcaster Fin Dwyer.Fin is the man behind the ever popular Irish History Podcast, the creator of the Dublin Famine Tour,…
Do you want peer recognition for excellence? Do you need evidence to show your effective engagement with volunteers? If so, why not nominate your archive service for the ARA Archive Volunteering Award?Winners will have a national platform to celebrate their volunteers’…
We at ARA Ireland would like to draw your attention to the ARA Together Support Hub which has been recently set up to support ARA members and the Archives and Record Keeping Sector, as a whole, during the Covid-19 Pandemic.…
We are pleased to announce that Aideen Ireland has been appointed the new ARA UK & Ireland President. Aideen will be making awards presentations in the Autumn. An official “inauguration” will be held in Dublin in December where we will…
Details of the Ireland launch of Explore Your Archives 2019 have also been announced. The Irish campaign will launch at 6pm, Thursday 21st November at the Irish Architectural Archive. Please RSVP here.
In response to events surrounding the online comments made by former ARA Head of Public Affairs, in August 2019, and in support of ARA Ireland’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion in the Irish archives and records sector, ARA Ireland is…
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