Presentation slides
June 2026
‘Teaching and Learning LGBT+ Irish History: Accessing the Past and Present’
Dr Diarmuid Scully, School of History, University College Cork (UCC)
Presentation Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsUOPauoXRk
May 2026
Self-archiving: The benefits of a Toolkit for Artists
Ruth Hallinan, Assistant Manager at National Irish Visual Arts Library
Presentation Link: (Awaiting)
April 2026
‘The Last Hard Man’: Finding Intersectional Marginalisation in the Archive
Dr Oisín Wall, UCC’s Radical Humanities Laboratory and School of History
Presentation Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKRV4ZE7-JI&t=5s
March 2026
The Conradh na Gaeilge Archive, Irish language rights, and the Irish language archival terminology project
Niamh Ní Charra, University of Galway
Presentation Link: (Awaiting)
Crossing Boundaries: Language and Identity in the ULTACH Trust Archive
Ailbhe Nic Lochlainn, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
Presentation Link: (Awaiting)
February 2026
Waking the Hirschfeld: An Oral and Archival History of Dublin’s Hirschfeld Centre, 1979-1987
Páraic Kerrigan, University College Dublin (UCD)
Presentation Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM4o3Tc4AMU
January 2026
The Playwright on the Stairs: Recovering the archives and Legacies of Irish Women Writers
Dr. Barry Houlihan, University of Galway
Presentation Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vscWR-e_A4&t=15s
December 2025
“Dear Cara-Friend”: Widening access to a key PRONI LGBTQ+ archive
Lorraine Bourke and Grace Gordon, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
Presentation Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiS9HemvG2w
November 2025
The Mincéirs Archive at University of Galway Library: community engagement and collection development
Kieran Hoare, University of Galway Library
Presentation Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzCWzbtyez8
October 2025
Preserving Records in support of Truth Recovery in Northern Ireland
Joy Carey, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
Presentation Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiOEZTP9VxE
April 2025
Caring for Archival Collections workshop
Jessica Baldwin, National Archives of Ireland
(Slides coming shortly)
November 2024
Exploring Archival Cataloguing
Presentation 1
Finding the Keys to the Marian Keyes Collection
Della Keating, National Library of Ireland
Presentation 2
Getting down to the ATOM of a Collection
Maeve Gebruers, Irish Traditional Music Archive
April 2024
Copyright in Context: Ireland workshop facilitated by Dr Ellie Pridgeon
Session 1
Introduction to Copyright
Session 2
Copyright, Digitisation and Social Media
Session 3
Managing Third Party Copyright
List of legislation and further reading
October 2023
Digital Preservation and Electronic Record Keeping: Collaboration and Conversation
Presentation 1
Who are IRMS?
Jaana Pinnick, IRMS Chair
Presentation 2
Drafting Guidelines for Electronic Record Keeping: A Collaboration.
Joanne Rothwell, Waterford City and County Archives and Lorraine Marrey, Digital Repository of Ireland
Presentation 3
Supporting Good Practice: Reflections on the DPC Competency Framework one year on
Sharon McMeekin, Digital Preservation Coalition
Presentation 4
Starting a new digital preservation programme in an old organisation
Jaana Pinnick, IRMS Chair
May 2021
Archives and Social Justice Seminar Series Recordings of the second two events in this seminar series are available. It was decided not to record the first session due to the sensitivity of the topic. Please get in contact with the training officer at trainingofficersoai@gmail.com if you would like to obtain a copy of the presentation videos. Presentation slides are also available below. Session 1 – Archival Sovereignty Archival Sovereignty: Towards a New Archival Principle
Dr. James Lowry, City University of New York (Slides) Session 2 – Archives and Impact Social Justice Goals and Impact in the Archive: a Case Study of ‘Universities Studying Slavery’
Ashley Williams, Independent Archivist (Slides) Sites of (Un)Remembrance: The State, Testimony, and Archival Memory
Dr Barry Houlihan, Archivist and Lecturer, NUIG (Slides) Session 3 – Archives and Activism Archiving the 8th: Documenting Significant Social Shifts through Archivist, Activist and Academic Perspectives
Dr Maeve O’Brien, Postdoctoral Research Coordinator, Archiving the 8th Project (Slides) The Conradh na Gaeilge Archive: Activism, Archives and the Irish Language
Niamh Ní Charra, Project Archivist, Conradh na Gaeilge and Mary Robinson Collections, NUIG (Slides)
January 2021
Kickstarting Your Career: A New Professionals Training Seminar Recordings of the presentations were generated during the event. Please get in contact with the training officer at trainingofficersoai@gmail.com if you would like to obtain a copy of the presentation videos. Presentation 1 Career Resilience in a Time of Plague: Adapting to the Effects of the Pandemic
Carly Randall, Archivist at V&A Archive and Registry
Presentation 2
Who do you think we are? Advocacy and Stakeholder Engagement in the Archives Profession
Deirdre McParland, Senior Archivist at ESB Archives Presentation 3 Managing Large Archival Projects: Tips and Lessons Learnt Cécile Gordon, Senior Archivist at Military Archives of Ireland Presentation 4 Managing Large Archival Projects: Tips and Lessons Learnt
Cécile Gordon, Senior Archivist at Military Archives of Ireland
August 2020
Online Training: Digital Curation and Digital Preservation Recordings of these presentations were created for this online event. Please get in contact with the training officer at trainingofficersoai@gmail.com if you would like to obtain a copy of the presentation videos. Presentation 1 Digital Curation and Preservation at UCD Digital Library
Peter Clarke, Digital Services Programmer, UCD Library Presentation 2 Opening Doors: Using Open Source Software in Digital Preservation Rachel MacGregor, Digital Preservation Officer at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
July 2020
Online Training: AtoM Cataloguing Software and Open Refine Recordings of these presentations were created for this online event. Please get in contact with the training officer at trainingofficersoai@gmail.com if you would like to obtain a copy of the presentation videos. Presentation 1 Experiences with AtoM in Offaly Archives and the Irish Jesuit Archives Lisa Shortall, Offaly Archives and Damien Burke, Society of Jesus, Ireland Presentation 2 Clean Migrate, Validate, Enhance: Using Open Refine to Process Metadata for the Endangered Archives Programme Dr Graham Jevon, Endangered Archives Programme, British Library
November 2019
Championing Diversity and Inclusion in Irish Archives and Records
National Library of Ireland: Diversity & Inclusion
Maria Ryan, NLI
Presentation 2:
Queer Treasure: Documenting & Preserving Irish LGBT History
Tonie Walsh, Civil Rights Activist, Historian and Journalist
(coming soon)
Structured Ignorance and Silencing in Irish Archives
Katherine O’Donnell, UCD and Dr Maeve O’Rourke, NUIG
Queer Archival Activism: The Cork LGBT Archive
Orla Egan, Cork LGBT Archive
Access, Representation and Engagement: Working with Wikimedia Projects
Rebecca O’Neill, Wikimedia Community Ireland
Further details for the event available through Eventbrite
September 2019
‘Making the Most out of your Career’: Continuing Professional Development for Archives and Records Management Professionals
What do I need to learn? Identifying regional training needs: the value of a Skills Audit
Caroline Williams
RMS ACCREDITATION – Your Route to Recognition as Professional
Deirdre Allison
ARA Professional Development Programme – Understanding the competency framework
Chris Sheridan
21st March 2019
Digital Preservation and ARA Professional Development
Using and developing open source tools in the Irish Film Institute
Kieran O’Leary, IFI Irish Film Archive
The Atlantic Philanthropies Archive Project
Anja Mahler, Digital Repository of Ireland
ARA Professional Development
Chris Sheridan
18th September 2018
(Joint event run by ARA, Ireland and IRMS Ireland)
Copyright and Data Protection Seminar
Copyright in Digital Environments
Clare Lanigan, Education and Outreach Manager, Royal Irish Academy
Presentation 2:
Becoming Compliant using Records Management
Dorothy Quinn, Digital Records Manager
Limerick City and County Council
(This presentation was made available to attendees only)
Copyright and orphan works
Professor Ronan Deazley, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast
GDPR and how it affects bodies covered by the National Archives Act
Niamh McDonnell, Senior Archivist, National Archives of Ireland
27th March 2018
Excel for Archivists
Using Excel for creating and improving archive catalogues: Why and how
Gillian Sheldrick