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CONTENTS Beyond 2022 3 Business School 4 Grand Canal Innovation District 5 European Council Research Awards 6 Path to Palaeontology 7 The Last Right Movie 8 In Focus 9 Mission Possible 10 Dates for your Diary 11 2
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The aftermath of the Four Courts blaze in 1922 2BE0YO2N2D RIREECLOAVNEDR’SINPGAST Keeper of the Archives, Herbert Woods, on the morning after the blaze Charred bundle of salved records One of the greatest tragedies of the Irish Civil War was the terrible, irretrievable loss of seven centuries of Ireland’s recorded history in the 1922 Four Courts blaze. The historical, genealogical and administrative records were held in a magnificent, six-storey Victorian archive building known as the Record Treasury, and it all went up in flames on 30 June 1922. Trinity computer scientists and historians are now using groundbreaking digital technology to locate copies held in archives and libraries around the world, automatically transcribing over 25 million words into print, and creating a virtual reconstruction of the Record Treasury itself. Documents once believed lost forever are being retrieved, restoring centuries of Ireland’s collective memories and opening up exciting potential for historical discovery and education. Beyond 2022 is the national legacy project commemorating the Civil War in this ‘Decade of Centenaries’ around the events that led to an independent Irish state. In December, An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar TD announced €2.5m in Government funding for the creation of the Virtual Record Treasury, an open-access, fully immersive and searchable, virtual reconstruction of the Victorian building, to launch on 30 June 2022, the centenary of the Four Courts fire. Click here to find out more 3
