Retrieval of Irish archive lost in 1922 fire ‘astounding’, historian says
Four Courts fire at start of Civil War destroyed centuries of historic documents
'Beyond 2022 Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury’ is a project which aims to digitally recreate the building and contents of the Public Record Office of Ireland, destroyed by fire at Dublin’s Four Courts in 1922. Video: Trinity College Dublin
An attempt to recreate Ireland’s archives destroyed in a fire in June 1922 has been successful to a “greater extent than ever previously imagined,” the historian behind the project has said.
Two days into the Civil War, a massive explosion destroyed the Public Records Office attached to Dublin’s Four Courts and with it hundreds of years of documented history.