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# archive - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
World’s first ever web page to be brought back to life
CERN is recreating the website that launched the world wide web to mark the 20th anniversary of the Tim Berners-Lee invention.
# archive - Friday 19 April, 2013
Stolen rhino horns were removed from exhibition ‘due to risk of theft’
The horns were stolen from the archives in Dublin on Wednesday night by three masked men.
# archive - Tuesday 25 December, 2012
Video: Tackling Irish Christmas tree thefts in 1962
But those pesky tree thieves had to contend with the gardaÃ’s genius ‘element of surprise’ tactic…
# archive - Monday 24 December, 2012
PICS: Surviving Christmas during World War II
Poignant archive pictures show attempts to bring Christmas cheer and boost morale through 1939 to 1945.
# archive - Saturday 22 December, 2012
Open Thread: what are your coolest (or weirdest) Christmas tree decorations?
The Wright Brothers knew how to deck out this tree to the max – but what have been your most memorable decorations?
# archive - Friday 21 December, 2012
National Library releases documents from Roger Casement’s incarceration
Materials include portraits, documents relating to the degradation of his knighthood and touching letters to his family in the final days before his execution.
# archive - Wednesday 31 October, 2012
From 2000: Dublin’s Dessie Farrell and his 11-year-old cousin, Seamus Coleman
Never EVER throw out old match programmes.
# archive - Saturday 20 October, 2012
Futuristic Bed Pic of the Day
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# archive - Tuesday 11 September, 2012
# archive - Friday 3 August, 2012
Video: Archive footage shows off our wartime expertise
Try to keep a straight face please ladies and gents.
# archive - Sunday 8 July, 2012
In pictures: archive photos of Cuba’s Havana from the early 1900s
Street vendors, mounted police, and walking on the Malecon…
# archive - Sunday 1 July, 2012
In photos: NASA’s aeronautical research centre as it was in the 1920s
Langley Research Center was founded in 1917 and later became famous as the site where the first moon landing was planned.
# archive - Sunday 24 June, 2012
# archive - Sunday 3 June, 2012
Archive Daredevil Pic of the Day
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# archive - Sunday 27 May, 2012
Archive Feat of Engineering Pic of the Day
It’s 75 years since the Golden Gate Bridge opened in San Francisco.
# archive - Sunday 13 May, 2012
The Daily Fix: Sunday
Your round-up of the day’s biggest stories, as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed…
# archive - Tuesday 8 May, 2012
VIDEO: Here’s how an atomic clock operates
Short archive 1950s film explains the processes behind the clock’s accurate timekeeping.
# archive - Saturday 3 March, 2012
In pictures: America’s WWII internment camp for Japanese-Americans
Seventy years ago this month, the US began sending thousands of its citizens into an internment camp in Manzanar, California.Here are Ansel Adams’ photos of that camp.
# archive - Wednesday 11 January, 2012
Video: Inside Clerys department store in Dublin – in 1932
Check out this 1932 video of the legendary department store on Dublin’s O’Connell Street, including the bargain basement, the ‘gay and lively’ café – and a mechanical zoo…
# archive - Friday 30 December, 2011
Archives show Bobby Sands “offered to end hunger strike”
New documents released under the 30-year rule give an insight into some previously unknown occurrences in 1981, such as Bobby Sands allegedly offering to suspend his hunger strike.
# archive - Thursday 17 November, 2011
Enda and Micheál give thumbs-up to 1916 Rising website
Their parties may have been divided by the Civil War but the leaders of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are joined in admiration of interactive site which aims to make 1916 archives more accessible to public.
# archive - Thursday 29 September, 2011
We’ll always have Connemara: John Hinde Ltd facing examinership
The picture postcard company is in financial difficulties but its rose-tinted archive of Ireland lives on in our slideshow…
# archive - Wednesday 14 September, 2011
What happened in 2010? The show that YOU wrote
Must-see project at ABSOLUT Fringe 2011 reveals the day-by-day diaries of ordinary Irish people throughout the tumultuous last year.
# archive - Wednesday 23 February, 2011
Golly gosh! Lost book written by Enid Blyton found in archive
The book, that tells the story of a caravan with a mind of its own, might well be worth lashings of euro.






































