Publications
Our research operates at the crossroads of three disciplines including History & Humanities, Archives & Conservation and Computer Science & Technology.
Latest Publication: People, Place and Power
In partnership with the Local Government Archivists and Record Managers, this publication explores the significance of the Grand Jury in Ireland, and the immense value of Grand Jury records in local collections across the island.
Publications Table
The latest research from across our team breaks new ground in History, Computer Science, Digital Humanities, Archival Science and Conservation.
| Date | Author | Title | Detail | Link | Tag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Beyza Yaman, Lucy McKenna, Alex Randles, Lynn Kilgallon, Peter Crooks, Declan O'Sullivan | Digital Prosopography Information in Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland Knowledge Graph | Presented at SemDH’24: The First International Workshop on Semantic Digital Humanities, May 28, 2024, Crete, Greece. | https://semdh.github.io/assets/papers/SemDH-paper-14.pdf | Computer Science |
| 2024 | Alex Randles, Lucy McKenna, Lynn Kilgallon, Beyza Yaman, Peter Crooks, Declan O'Sullivan | The Knowledge Graph Explorer for the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland | Proceedings of VOILA 2024: The 9th International Workshop on the Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies, Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs, co-located with the 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024), Baltimore, USA, November 11-15. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) | https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3773/paper4.pdf | Computer Science |
| 2024 | Alex Randles, Lucy McKenna, Lynn Kilgallon, Beyza Yaman, Peter Crooks, Declan O'Sullivan | Evaluating the Knowledge Graph Editor of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland | Proceedings of VOILA 2024: The 9th International Workshop on the Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies, Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs, co-located with the 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024), Baltimore, USA, November 11-15. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-3773. | https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3773/paper5.pdf | Computer Science |
| 2024 | Alex Randles, Lucy McKenna, Lynn Kilgallon, Beyza Yaman, Peter Crooks, Declan O'Sullivan | Facilitating Search of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland Knowledge Graph using ChatGPT | Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2024), Amsterdam, Netherlands. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-3759. | https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3759/paper15.pdf | Computer Science |
| 2024 | Ciarán Wallace | Deliberate destruction and collateral damage: the burning of Irish records 1916-1922 | La Gazette des archives 268 (2022-24): 45-62 | https://www.archivistes.org/Autour-de-la-guerre-Les-archives-de-precieuses-alliees | Archives & History |
| 2024 | Lucía Pereira Pardo, Paul Dryburgh, Elizabeth Biggs, Marc Vermeulen, Peter Crooks, Adam Gibson, Molly Fort, Constantina Vlachou-Mogire, Moira Bertasa, John R. Gilchrist, Jon Danskin | Advanced imaging to recover illegible text in historic documents. The challenge of past chemical treatments for ink enhancement | Journal of Cultural Heritage 68 (July–August 2024): 342-353 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2024.06.013 | Conservation |
| 2024 | Elizabeth Biggs | Halls of Power: Changing Administrative and Political Culture at the Palace of Westminster in the Sixteenth Century | Journal of British Studies 63 (2024): 1-24. | https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.112 | History |
| 2024 | Elizabeth Biggs | Forging the Medieval amidst Loss: the Public Record Office of Ireland and Ireland’s Medieval History | Special cluster on medieval forgery in Postmedieval, eds. R. Menmuir and H. Armstrong | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-024-00320-7 | Archives & History |
| 2023 | Elizabeth Biggs | Irish Lords and English Rulers: the Materials of Diplomacy between England and Gaelic Ireland in the later Middle Ages | History Ireland (Sept/Oct 2023) | - | Archives & History |
| 2023 | Elizabeth Biggs, Paul Dryburgh | Report into the state of the exchequer, c.1285 | Analecta Hibernica 53 (2023) | - | Archives & History |
| 2023 | Peter Crooks, Lynn Kilgallon | ‘Of old time annexed to your crown’: Documents on Irish Parliament and the Crisis of 1441–2 | Analecta Hibernica 53 (2023) | - | Archives & History |
| 2023 | Neil Johnston | Extracts related to Irish matters considered at the English Privy Council, 1660–9 | Analecta Hibernica 53 (2023) | - | Archives & History |
| 2023 | Sarah Hendriks | Early Evidence of the Dublin Guild of Carpenters | Analecta Hibernica 53 (2023) | - | Archives & History |
| 2023 | Tim Murtagh | Selected Correspondence of Edward Cooke, Civil Under-Secretary (1796–1801) | Analecta Hibernica 53 (2023) | - | Archives & History |
| 2023 | Brian Gurrin | Surviving 1813–15 census returns | Analecta Hibernica 53 (2023) | - | Archives & History |
| 2023 | Ciarán Wallace | Selections from the Public Record Office of Ireland letter books | Analecta Hibernica 53 (2023) | - | Archives & History |
| 2023 | Peter Crooks, Zoe Reid, Jessica Baldwin, Ciara Fahy, Brian Gurrin | The salved records of 1922 | Analecta Hibernica 53 (2023) | - | Conservation |
| 2022 | Brian Gurrin, le David Brown, Peter Crooks agus Ciarán Wallace | Daoine, Áit agus Cumhacht: Córas an Ard-Ghiúiré in Éirinn | Publisher: Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. ISBN: 978-1-9168831-2-3 | - | Cartlanna & Stair |
| 2022 | Brian Gurrin, with David Brown, Peter Crooks and Ciarán Wallace | People, Place and Power: The Grand Jury system in Ireland. 2nd edition | Publisher: Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. ISBN: 978-1-9168831-1-6 | - | Archives & History |
| 2022 | Zoë Reid, Jessica Baldwin, Peter Crooks, David Brown | Retrieved from the rubble: reconstructing Irelands lost archive | In: Pamela Murray, Leah Humenuck, William Bennett and Lauren Moon-Schott (eds), Mod Cons: Modern Conservation, Modern Conveniences, Modern Constraints [ICON Book & Paper Group Third Triennial Conference, 2021] London: Archetype Publications, 2022 | - | Digital Humanities |
| 2022 | Christophe Debruyne, Gary Munnelly, Lynn Kilgallon, Declan OSullivan, Peter Crooks | Creating a knowledge graph for Irelands lost history: knowledge engineering and curation in the Beyond 2022 Project | ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage 15:2 (2002) | https://doiorg/101145/3474829 | Computer Science |
| 2022 | Peter Crooks | Rescue the records, revisited | Irish Archives: The Journal of the Irish Society for Archives (50th Anniversary Issue] | - | Archives & History |
| 2022 | David Brown, Peter Crooks | ‘Now more valuable than ever before‘: Beyond 2022 and the Hore manuscripts at Ferns Diocesan Archive | The Past: The Organ of the Uí Cinsealaigh Historical Society 35 (2021) 24–45 | - | Archives & History |
| 2022 | Ciarán Wallace | M.J. McEnery, biographical entry | Dictionary of Irish Biography (December 2022) | - | - |
| 2022 | Ciarán Wallace | D.A. Chart, biographical entry | Dictionary of Irish Biography (December 2022) | - | - |
| 2021 | Vuong M Ngo, Gary Munnelly, Fabrizio Orlandi, Peter Crooks, Declan O’Sullivan, Owen Conlan | A semantic search engine for historical handwritten document images | In: G. Berget, M.M. Hall, D. Brenn, S Kumpulainen(eds), Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries TPDL 2021 Lecture Notes in Computer Science (vol 12866) Springer: Cham, 2021 | https://linkspringercom/chapter/101007/978-3-030-86324-1_7 | Computer Science |
| 2021 | Peter Crooks, Ciarán Wallace | The great untilled field: the Public Record Office of Ireland, 1867–1922 | History Ireland 29:3 (2021) 46–9 | - | Archives & History |
| 2021 | Brian Gurrin with David Brown, Peter Crooks, Ciarán Wallace | People, Place and Power: The Grand Jury System in Ireland | Dublin: Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, 2021 | - | Archives & History |
| 2022 | Peter Crooks | Bureaucracy | In: Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja Goeing and Anthony Grafton (eds) Information: A Historical Companion Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021 342–8 | - | Archives & History |
| 2021 | Brian Gurrin | A tale of pride and perjury: the 1831 census in Ireland | Archive Fever 19 (Jun 2021) | - | Archives & History |
| 2020 | Peter Crooks, Ciarán Wallace | The records of a country are its noblest inheritance: Beyond 2022: Irelands Virtual Record Treasury research project | History Ireland 28:3 (2020) 48–51 | - | Archives & History |
| 2020 | Tim Murtagh | Edward Cooke and the records of the Chief Secretarys Office | Archive Fever 16 (Sep 2020) | - | Archives & History |
| 2020 | Randolph Jones | Private Agent and Public Custodian: James Frederick Ferguson (1806-1855) and the Irish Exchequer Record Office | Archive Fever 15 (Aug 2020) | - | Archives & History |
| 2020 | Hazel Menton | The Four Courts repository post-1922 | Archive Fever 14 (Jul 2020) | - | Archives & History |
| 2020 | David Brown | Taking the long way home: the perambulations of Harvard MS Eng 662, Rerum Hibernicarum, Scripti et Impressi, by Charles Vallancey | Archive Fever 13 (Jun 2020) | - | Archives & History |
| 2020 | Christophe Debruyne | Mining for connections in the records: knowledge graphs in Beyond 2022 | Archive Fever 12 (May 2020) | - | Computer Science |
| 2020 | Randolph Jones | The Irish exchequer memoranda rolls: William Lynch’s repertory | Archive Fever 11 (Feb 2020) | - | Archives & History |
| 2019 | Stuart Kinsella | No good deed goes unpunished | Archive Fever 10 (Dec 2019) | - | Archives & History |
| 2019 | David Brown, Brian Coleman, Micheál Ó Siochrú | Calendar of transcribed material from the Council Office Books at Dublin Castle held in the Prendergast Papers, King‘s Inns Library, Dublin | Archivium Hibernicum. 62 (2019) 50–283 | - | Archives & History |
| 2019 | Ciarán Wallace | Herbert Wood, biographical entry | Dictionary of Irish Biography (December 2019) | https://doi.org/10.3318/dib.010109.v1 | Archives & History |
| 2018 | Zoë Reid | Unwrapping the past | Archive Fever 9 (Nov 2018) | - | Conservation |
| 2018 | Ciarán Wallace, Michael Willis | Charting the future of the past | Archive Fever 7 (Sep 2018) | - | Archives & History |
| 2018 | Tokens of anger: the commonwealth and protectorate records | Tokens of anger: the commonwealth and protectorate records | Archive Fever 6 (Jun 2018) | - | Archives & History |
| 2018 | Randolph Jones | Lost and found: a missing exchequer Issue Roll of 1414 rediscovered | Archive Fever 5 (May 2018) | - | Archives & History |
| 2018 | Ciarán Wallace | 10 years before the blaze: Herbert Wood on ‘Unexplored Irish Treasures‘ | Archive Fever 4 (Apr 2018) | - | Archives & History |
| 2018 | Peter Crooks and Ciarán Wallace | Order from chaos: Herbert Woods Guide of 1919 as the key to the Virtual Record Treasury | Archive Fever 3 (Mar 2018) | - | Archives & History |
| 2018 | Aideen Ireland with Peter Crooks | Baron Lassberg: or, the curious case of the wandering plea rolls | Archive Fever 2 (Feb 2018) | - | Archives & History |
| 2018 | Peter Crooks and Ciarán Wallace | Construction/Destruction: the Public Record Office of Ireland (1867–1922) | Archive Fever 1 (Jan 2018) | - | Archives & History |
