Ireland's Beyond 2022 project progresses

The Beyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury project, which aims to receate much of the material lost in the Four Courts explosion at Ireland's public record office in 1922, is making substantial progress, with its likely success at a “greater extent than ever previously imagined,” according to Dr. Peter Crooks, a key driver behind the project.

The project will also gain an additional tranche of funding today from Ireland's Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, who believes that the project will leave a “permanent, meaningful and imaginative legacy beyond the conclusion of the decade of centenaries”.

A progress report on what has already been found, and its ultimate aims, can be read in the Irish Times at www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/retrieval-of-irish-archive-lost-in-1922-fire-astounding-historian-says-1.4104963.

For more on the Beyond 2022 project visit  https://beyond2022.ie. The video below provides a further overview (available also at https://youtu.be/CXuExly6dl4):

(With thanks to Michael Merrigan @MerriganMI via Twitter)

Chris

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Beyond 2022 - Virtually recreating the Irish PRO archive

This is not a new video, it was launched over a year ago, but having seen it again on Twitter this morning, I thought it worth sharing. In 1922, The Irish Public Record Office was devastated in the Civil War, with many valuable records from centuries past utterly destroyed. Not everything was lost however, and many surrogate copies of records destroyed in the calamity have survived.

The Beyond 2022 project (https://beyond2022.ie/) seeks to create a virtual PRO online in time for the centenary, gathering all know surviving material and surrogates and making them available in a digitally reconstructed building. It and is something I am sure many of us with Irish ancestry cannot wait for! Here's the video, also available at https://youtu.be/CXuExly6dl4

Chris

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