The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

As an all-island and international legacy initiative, the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland draws strength from a unique research partnership which now links the National Archives of Ireland (the successor institution of the PROI) with an expanding consortium of over institutional research partners across Ireland and Britain, as well as Europe, North America and Australia. In 2017–18, the National Archives (successor institution to the PROI), the National Archives UK (successor institution to the Public Record Office, London, established in 1838) and Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI, established in 1923–4) joined forces in creating a research partnership with Trinity College Dublin and the Science Foundation Ireland ADAPT Centre for digital technologies. This marked the first formal partnership of these three historically-linked archival institutions. They were soon joined as Core Partners by the Irish Manuscripts Commission (established in 1928) and Trinity College Dublin Library. By 2022, over 70 other archives, libraries and learned societies in Ireland, Britain and the United States have formally joined the enterprise to bring the destroyed Record Treasury back to life.