LATEST
Airlines: Stop Blaming Lost Revenue on Grounded Fleets — Invest in the Engineers Who Keep Them FlyingLondon Arrests Expose a Global Crackdown on Gaza SolidarityRussia’s Rassvet Network Raises a New Test for European Security and SanctionsIsraeli Actress Chelli Goldenberg Condemns “The Sin of the Occupation” Before Discovering Her Comments Are LiveBLK Global PLC: Preliminary Results for the Year Ended 30 June 2026Scientists Launch Legal Challenge to DEA's Proposed Psychedelic Scheduling, Which Would Criminalize Research Compounds and Jeopardize FDA Breakthrough Therapy for Postpartum DepressionTrauma Nurse Builds Clinical Apps Between ShiftsObama Criticises Israel as His Own Record Comes Under ScrutinyVIORA and BioTeke Strengthen Strategic Partnership to Advance Saliva Pregnancy Testing Across EuropeAI Startup AvalonX Emerges From Stealth With $10 Million in Funding From Ridown CapitalAirlines: Stop Blaming Lost Revenue on Grounded Fleets — Invest in the Engineers Who Keep Them FlyingLondon Arrests Expose a Global Crackdown on Gaza SolidarityRussia’s Rassvet Network Raises a New Test for European Security and SanctionsIsraeli Actress Chelli Goldenberg Condemns “The Sin of the Occupation” Before Discovering Her Comments Are LiveBLK Global PLC: Preliminary Results for the Year Ended 30 June 2026Scientists Launch Legal Challenge to DEA's Proposed Psychedelic Scheduling, Which Would Criminalize Research Compounds and Jeopardize FDA Breakthrough Therapy for Postpartum DepressionTrauma Nurse Builds Clinical Apps Between ShiftsObama Criticises Israel as His Own Record Comes Under ScrutinyVIORA and BioTeke Strengthen Strategic Partnership to Advance Saliva Pregnancy Testing Across EuropeAI Startup AvalonX Emerges From Stealth With $10 Million in Funding From Ridown Capital
Europe

Eyewitness Accounts of 1641 Irish Rebellion to Be Released Online

Ciaran  1 min read
Illustration: greatreporter

An exhibition to raise awareness about one of the most bloody and traumatic moments in Irish history will open this week...

‘Ireland in Turmoil: the 1641 Depositions,’ an exhibition to raise awareness about one of the most bloody and traumatic moments in Irish history, the 1641 Irish Rebellion, will be opened by the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese in Trinity College Dublin’s Long Room, Old Library (Ireland) on October 22nd next.

Former DUP leader, Dr Ian Paisley will also be speaking at the exhibition.

On the occasion of the exhibition, the transcribed and digitised 1641 Depositions, witness testimonies of the violent massacres of the 1641 Irish Rebellion, will be launched online in a new website www.1641.tcd.ie, a free resource which will be publicly available.

The online resource sees the culmination of a three-year collaborative research project between TCD and the Universities of Aberdeen and Cambridge, using the latest research technology.

The 1641 Depositions are witness testimonies by mainly Protestants from all social backgrounds concerning their experiences during the rebellion of the Catholic Irish in 1641.

The testimonies document sometimes in vivid and harrowing terms the alleged crimes committed by the Irish Catholic insurgents, including torture, assault, stripping, imprisonment and murder as well as the loss of goods and military activity.

This body of material runs to 19, 000 pages in which 90,000 people are named and is unparalleled anywhere in early modern Europe, providing a unique source of information for the causes and events surrounding the 1641 rebellion.

For the online digitisation of the 1641 Depositions click on http://www.1641.tcd.ie

Details of exhibition: 5.45pm, October 22nd, 2010 Long Room, Old Library, Trinity College Dublin

Related articles

Top