Archives and Records Association (Ireland)

1 week to go until the campaign!
Whether it's a photograph, letter, document, diary or family story, we want to see the records that tell the story of Irish people abroad and those who made Ireland their home 📜
Join us on Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn and Bluesky sharing your items using the hashtag and tagging us!

🚨 Job fairy 🚨

Join our Team!

Click the link below.

https://laois.ie/job-vacancies

This year's campaign will run on Wednesday, 15th July.

This social media campaign celebrates the Irish people, both new and old, both famous and forgotten, who have either left or come to these shores seeking a new life. Based on the theme of diaspora, and using the campaign hashtag , individuals and institutions across Ireland and around the world will be invited to share material from their archives which relate to Irish people who left Ireland for a life abroad, as well as material relating to those who chose to make Ireland their home.

The campaign aims to encourage the public to access and explore collections, while also highlighting the rich material in archives across Ireland and internationally. It also hopes to raise awareness of the wealth and variety of material that exists within the community at large, and the importance of ensuring it is collected and preserved for future generations.

Participation is open to all, with an emphasis on archives, both personal and public. Join us on Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn and Bluesky to share your items, using the hashtag and making sure to tag us.

The Explore Your Archive theme for Iúil | July is |

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Voting is now open for the 2026 ARA Excellence Awards!

The ARA Excellence Awards give us the chance every year to celebrate the best of what we do and help raise the profile of archivists, conservators and records managers across the UK and Ireland.

The Archives and Records Association created the awards to recognise excellence and contributions by individuals and teams in our sector.

To celebrate the achievements of record keeping professionals and their contribution to society, ARA has four special awards: Distinguished Service Award (DSA), Record Keeper of the Year, Record Keeping Service of the Year, New Professional of the Year Award.

Information on the nominees, and the voting portal, can be found on the website ⬇️

https://www.archives.org.uk/ara-awards

✨️ Job fairy ✨️

The Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine is recruiting a Senior Archivist. The role will focus on the records of the Land Commission & is based in Portlaoise.

Closing date - Thurs 2nd of July at 12 noon

For full details see ⬇️

assets.gov.ie

📢Job opportunity

The National Museum of Ireland is seeking applications from suitable candidates to fill the post of Head of National Centre for Research and Remembrance based in the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks and National Centre for Research and Remembrance. This is a full-time, three-year Fixed term contract. This position will be filled by open competitive interview.

For further information, and to apply, see the link below.

www.museum.ie

Join us for the next lecture in the ARA Ireland series on Thursday 11th of June at 1pm - Teaching and Learning LGBT+ Irish History: Accessing the Past and Present

Dr Diarmuid Scully will explore legacies of oppression and how they may be challenged and overcome.

Until 1993, homosexuality was criminalised in Ireland. For centuries, Church, State, and public opinion shamed, silenced, and persecuted LGBT+ people for ‘the love that dare not speak its name.’ Despite transformational developments including marriage equality, we are still living with the legacies of that oppression. Looking at the historical record and how we can access it and share knowledge and understanding, this presentation will explore legacies of oppression and how they may be challenged and overcome.

Dr Diarmuid Scully is a Lecturer in the School of History, University College Cork. His interests are medieval cultural history and modern and contemporary LGBT+ history. Far apart in time, these two interests are connected by the theme of identities: how we construct personal, national, and sexual identities and how the ‘other’ is imagined in text and image. When Dr Diarmuid Scully began teaching LGBT+ history in 2018, his undergraduate module HI 2105 LGBT Identities in Modern Ireland became the first dedicated course on Irish LGBT+ history to be taught in any university on the island of Ireland.

Tickets are available via the ARA Ireland Eventbrite link ⬇
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/teaching-and-learning-lgbt-irish-history-accessing-the-past-and-present-tickets-1990548540268?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&_gl=1*1jmig8*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTA3NjU2Nzc2Mi4xNzgwNDg5Mzcz*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3ODA0ODkzNzIkbzEkZzAkdDE3ODA0ODkzNzIkajYwJGwwJGgw

The Explore Your Archive theme for Meitheamh | June is | 🎨

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