British Ambassador Kara Owen visits the VRTI.
We were delighted to welcome British Ambassador Kara Owen to Trinity this week for an enjoyable excursion through the tens of thousands (!) of records shared by with the VRTI by UK partners.
British Ambassador Kara Owen,, with Ciarán Wallace (left) and Peter Crooks (right). Image courtesy of the British Embassy, Dublin.The conversation ranged from from monarchs and bureaucrats in the 1600s, to Nicholas Dillon, a blind piper from Ballinasloe in 1821!
‘A blind musician holding an uilleann pipe or pastoral bagpipe.’ Etching attributed to G. Grattan. Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons.
For just a small sample of the many records shared with the VRTI by UK partners see:
State Papers Ireland 1660 – 1715
The Chief Secretary’s Papers 1770 – 1830
Collecting Ireland’s History: Libraries and the Recovery of Lost Records
Date
Friday, 28 August 2026, 10:22 AM
