Seven centuries of Irish archives painstakingly recreated after being destroyed in civil war

Digital wizardry and academic sleuthing have helped recreate a cultural treasure severely damaged in the conflict in 1922

In June 1922, the opening battle of Ireland’s civil war destroyed one of Europe’s great archives in a historic calamity that reduced seven centuries of documents and manuscripts to ash and dust.

Once the envy of scholars around the world, the Public Record Office at the Four Courts in Dublin, was a repository of documents dating from medieval times, and packed into …

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