News and features
Creating Our Future talk hosted by Oireachtas Friends of Science and Technology
6.10.2021
The Oireachtas Friends of Science and Technology hosted an online talk on Creating our Future yesterday.
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Houses of the Oireachtas joins Digital Preservation Coalition
29.09.2021
The Houses of the Oireachtas Library and Archives has joined the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) this month, becoming the coalition’s newest associate member.
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Oireachtas education invites post-primary history students to enter Treaty Debates Research Project Competition
24.09.2021
Students are invited to carry out a research project on one or more of the Members of the second Dáil Éireann who were involved in the Debates on the Treaty which took place from 14 December 1921 to 7 January 1922.
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Oireachtas marks International Day of Sign Languages with ISL translation of key Act
23.09.2021
Thursday 23 September is International Day of Sign Languages.
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Oireachtas Library displays account of 1831 trial of rural workers’ champion William Cobbett
16.09.2021
This month the Oireachtas Library is displaying an entertaining account of the 1831 trial of William Cobbett (1763-1835).
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Oireachtas education invites applications for transition year experience weeks
14.09.2021
The Houses of the Oireachtas will run three TY (transition year) experience weeks during the school year 2021-2022. Schools are invited to nominate one student to apply.
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Ireland’s “golden hour” at the 1932 Olympics recalled in digital display case
31.08.2021
This month the Oireachtas Library is displaying a document related to Ireland’s showing at the 1932 summer Olympic Games.
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New digital exhibition explores Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa’s newspaper The United Irishman
28.07.2021
The Oireachtas Library has launched a new digital exhibition entitled "Uniting the scattered millions: O'Donovan Rossa's United Irishman newspaper".
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Pamphlet calling for a lifeboat service on the Irish coast displayed by Oireachtas Library
21.07.2021
This month the Oireachtas Library is displaying an 1807 pamphlet calling for an organised lifeboat service along the Irish coast.
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Political cartoons satirising forged letters linking Parnell to Phoenix Park murders displayed by Oireachtas Library
25.06.2021
This month the Oireachtas Library is displaying political cartoons published in 1888 in the newspaper United Ireland.
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