IrelandSIG – Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
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Date(s) - Wednesday, September 17, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) is a collaborative research initiative aimed at reconstructing the Public Record Office of Ireland, which was destroyed in 1922. It serves as a free, open-access online resource that brings together digitized records from various archives, allowing users to explore thousands of historical documents related to Ireland’s rich history.
Speaker: Brian Gurrin is the census specialist on the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland project. Brian has written extensively on census taking in Ireland and is particularly interested in the demographics of Ireland, and her regions, in the pre-Famine period, with particular emphasis on religious demography. His research during the Virtual Treasury project has seen the names of more than 70,000 individuals recorded in the lost nineteenth-century censuses of Ireland identified and re-introduced, via the Virtual Treasury’s Population Portal, to the research community. His joint authored (with Kerby Miller and Liam Kennedy) volume, The Irish religious censuses of the 1760s, was published by the Irish Manuscripts Commission in 2022. His joint authored (with Liam Kennedy, Donald MacRaild and Lewis Darwen) volume, The Death Census of Black ’47: eyewitness accounts of Ireland’s Great Famine, was published in 2023. He spends much of his time trying to locate rare surviving census extracts.
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