Advent 2025: 19 December

Two studio portraits of high fashion from The Armstrong Collection

Advent 2025: 17 December

Photographs from an album compiled by the Countess of Limerick from The Limerick Papers

Advent 2025: 5 December

Todays image features traditional Switzerland clothing

Advent 2025: 3 December

Two drawings of stylish women taken from the scrapbook of Winifred Barrington

Advent Calendar 2025

For this year’s Advent Calendar, we hope you enjoy this selection of archival fashion from […]

New exhibition at UL celebrates the archive of the Earls of Limerick

A new exhibition ‘Limerick Legacies: The Earls of Limerick’ at the University of Limerick delves into the rich and multifaceted history of the Pery family, Earls of Limerick. 

Liam Timmins: Glin letter P1/304

Letter from 4th Earl of Dunraven to the 27th Knight of Glin This archival document […]

Adam Marnell: Armstrong letters P6/1217, P6/1246

The following three sources that were assigned by the Special Collections and Archive are a […]

Caoilinn Gleeson: Looney letter P43/236

This project is based on a set of letters written in 1897 between a tenant […]

Irish Country House Research Guide

The module HI4168 The Country House in Ireland: Class, Gender and Culture, led by Dr […]

From Calcutta to St Helena: the Harriet Marshall travel journal

Introduction 9-10 January 1847 11-12 January 1847 13-16 January 1847 17 January & 11 February […]

Atlantic Tales with Special Collections and Archives on Clare FM

Special Collections and Archives featured on Clare FM’s documentary series Atlantic Tales