Recovery of lost archives from Public Records Office fire ‘breathtaking’

Dr Peter Crooks, Culture Minister Catherine Martin, Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Trinity College provost Dr Linda Doyle at the launch (Niall Carson/PA)

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has described the recovery of lost archives from the fire that engulfed the Public Records Office a century ago as “breathtaking”.

Decades of Irish history went up in flames when the archives were almost totally destroyed during the shelling of the Four Courts in June 1922.