From 2021-23, Mairéad McClean was Decade of Centenary Artist in Residence at Trinity College Dublin, Long Room Hub working with the Beyond 22/Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland team.
Click here for a copy of her performance lecture given at Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin on the 22nd of June, 2022 to mark the 100 year anniversary of the destruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland, when 700 years of archive material was all but lost in the opening engagement of the Irish Civil War.
With thanks to The National Archives Ireland Conservation Department for allowing access to photograph the salved records below.
