Deep History, Deepening Collaborations

70 Archive Fever Archive Fever is our series of occasional online feature articles. The series highlights the richness of our shared archival heritage, the excitement of archival discoveries and the power of digital collaboration. Each feature examines a theme, personality, document or technical challenge of particular significance to our task of reconstructing Ireland’s past. The features are commissioned by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. 1 Peter Crooks and Ciarán Wallace, ‘Construction/ Destruction: The Public Record Office of Ireland (1867–1922)’ 2 Aideen Ireland with Peter Crooks, ‘Baron Lassberg: or, The Curious Case of the Wandering Plea Rolls’ 3 Peter Crooks and Ciarán Wallace, ‘Order from Chaos: Herbert Wood’s Guide of 1919 as the Key to the Virtual Record Treasury’ 4 Ciarán Wallace, ‘Ten Years Before the Blaze: Herbert Wood on “Unexplored Irish Treasures” ’ 5 Randolph Jones, ‘Lost and Found: A Missing Exchequer Issue Roll of 1414 Rediscovered’ 6 David Brown, ‘Tokens of Anger: The Commonwealth and Protectorate Records’ 7 Ciarán Wallace and Michael Willis, ‘Charting the Future of the Past: D.A. Chart, the first Deputy Keeper of Records, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)’ 8 Zoë Reid (National Archives, Ireland), ‘Unwrapping the Past: Conserving Archives Damaged in the Fire that Destroyed the Public Record Office of Ireland’ 9 Stuart Kinsella (Christ Church Cathedral), ‘No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The Preservation and Destruction of the Deeds of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin’ 10 Randolph Jones, ‘The Irish Exchequer Memoranda Rolls: William Lynch’s Repertory’ 11 Christophe Debruyne, ‘Mining for Connections in the Records: Knowledge Graphs in Beyond 2022’ 12 David Brown, ‘Taking the Long Way Home: The Perambulations of Harvard MS Eng 662, Rerum Hibernicarum , Scripti et Impressi , by Charles Vallancey’ 13 Hazel Menton (National Archives, Ireland), ‘The Four Courts Repository Post-1922’ 14 Randolph Jones, ‘Private Agent and Public Custodian: James Frederick Ferguson (1806–1855) and the Irish Exchequer Record Office’ 15 Tim Murtagh, ‘Edward Cooke and the Records of the Chief Secretary’s Office’ 16 Barry Houlihan (University of Galway), ‘National Archives and National Silence: Facing the Archival Silence’ 17 Colum O’Riordan (Irish Architectural Archive), ‘The Architecture of, and Architecture in, the Public Record Office of Ireland’ 18 Brian Gurrin, ‘Counting Shadows? The 1831 Census and Its Enumerators’ 19 Brian Gurrin, ‘Numbering, Re-Numbering, Then Numbering Once More’ 20 David Brown, ‘Shaken But Not Stirred: John Lodge’s Records of the Rolls, 1327–1725’ 21 Brian Gurrin, ‘The 1831 Census and the Woodstock Estate, County Kilkenny’ 22 Patrick McDonagh, ‘In Search of the Mortimers: Reconstructing a Seignorial Archive’ 23 David Brown, ‘ “Honesty Always Gives You the Advantage of Suprise”: Irish Parliamentary Records in the Library of Congress’