A Century of Recovery – and Beyond - Marking the centenary of the Four Courts fire (1922) and the launch of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

21 Engagement Programme Thursday, 14 April 2022 • Inside the Railings: A Portrait of Life within the Public Record Office of Ireland • Presented by Beyond 2022, National Archives (Ireland), Courts Service Wednesday, 4 May 2022 • Archives and Memory, North and South • Presented by Public Record Office of Northern Ireland with Beyond 2022 and National Archives (Ireland) Tuesday, 26 May 2022 • Conservation Conversation: Unlocking the Past — Preserving the Future • Presented by The National Archives (UK) with National Archives (Ireland) and Department for Communities, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) Monday, 27 June 2022 • Public release of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland Tuesday, 28June 2022 • Research Showcase — Humanities, Technology and the Arts • Building the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland: Scope, Scale and Transformations Thursday, 30 June 2022 • The centenary of the fire • Reverberations: Memory, Art and Archives • Screening of new artwork by Mairéad McClean, Decade of Centenaries Artist in Residence, on the centenary of the Four Courts blaze Exhibition opening 30 June 2022 The National Archives is working with the Irish Architectural Archive (IAA) to curate an exhibition of architectural drawings and elevations of the Public Record Office of Ireland held in the National Archives, alongside photographs of the innovative archival building, before and after the destruction; and contemporary photographs of the reconstructed Record house, which is now the Court of Appeal, held by the IAA.