New additions to the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland project at https://virtualtreasury.ie has added further records to tie in with the 103rd anniversary of the destruction of thre Four Courts in Dublin. The following are amongst the new releases, as detailed on the site at https://virtualtreasury.ie/2025-new-releases :

• Explore new discoveries shared by more than 75 partner archives and libraries  across the island of Ireland and around the globe.
• View a total of 350,000  historical records telling Ireland’s story — from medieval rolls to the pre-Famine census.
• Start your research though three new Portals – doorways to periods in Ireland’s story:
• Age of Conquest Portal – five million words of Anglo-Norman (1170-1500) Irish history translated into English.
• Age of Revolution Portal – these documents illustrate the drama of the 1798 Rebellion and Ireland’s links to the American Revolution.
• Population Portal – these genealogical riches include 50,000 names from the 19th-century census destroyed in 1922. 
• Focus on the fascinating new Gold Seams.
• View ‘The Royal Revenue, 1270–1450’ — the culmination of five years’ work to fully digitise and translate the largest series of late-medieval Irish documents in The National Archives (UK).
• Discover our Knowledge Graph, a powerful new tool for identifying people and places, and the links between them, in the records.

The 50,000 census names made available through the Popularion Portal are from the destroyed 1821 census, with many surrogate copies made from the original records prior to their destruction. 

Have fun!

Chris 

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