Image Galleries

The archives of the Grand Jury, which in some cases span two centuries of Irish history, shine a light on social and political life at the most local of levels. Here, you can explore examples of items created and used by various Grand...

The bulk of the materials in the Irish Kings and English Rulers thematic collection is drawn from the eighty submissions of the Irish kings to Richard II in the spring of 1395. The submissions, taken together, give a vivid picture of Irish and English political concerns in the late fourteenth century and how they interrelated. This gallery...

The Chief Secretary’s Office was divided into two departments, military and civil, both overseen by a dedicated under-secretary. The Military Department oversaw the payment of the military establishment, as well as dealing with a number of routine administrative tasks: buying provisions, maintaining barracks, and regular promotion within the...

The Chief Secretary’s Office was divided into two departments, military and civil, both overseen by a dedicated under-secretary. The Civil Department was arguably the larger of the two. It certainly dealt with a wide range of issue: appointments to public offices and ecclesiastical positions, petitions to government, poor relief, the revenue...

The Register of Archbishop John Swayne (d. 1442) needed to be disbound as part of the conservation treatment so that pages weakened by mould could be washed and strengthened with a gelatine size. However, in pulling the binding, conservators at PRONI were reaching into areas of the binding which had been concealed since the early seventeenth...

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A fragment is a small piece of something larger. Fragments make us think about the whole, about what the fragment once belonged too. I’m drawn to it because of this. These fragments demand we take a closer look. As we notice the detail on each individual piece we begin to think about how the shape fits into the whole. The map fragment also makes...

This gallery reveals the stunning work of the conservation team at the National Archives (Ireland) on the 1922 Salved Records—documents that came through the events of 1922 damaged but not destroyed. In a sequence of before and after shots, the conservators reveal how their painstaking work is restoring Ireland's documentary heritage, page by...

This sequence of images provides some views of the origin and operation of the 1766 religious census, and the subsequent archiving of the returns from the parishes. You can see the resolution of the House of Lords which initiated the census, some examples of census returns, the order creating the ‘Book of Returns’, and the creation of the Index to...