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Virtual public record office goes live

In June this year, the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland was launched, allowing visitors to explore a virtual recreation of the Public Record Office of Ireland and its collections as they were on the eve of their destruction at Dublin’s Four Courts at the outset of the Civil War.

The Public Record Office of Ireland was destroyed by fire on 30 June 1922, and hundreds of

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