Hidden Treasures in Met Éireann's Old Manuscripts

by Mairéad Treanor, Librarian, Met Éireann

A joint lecture between IMS and the Irish Environmental History Network (IEHN)

Thursday January 12th 2012, 7pm with refreshments from 6pm, Long Room Hub, TCD

**This lecture is now completely booked out**

The Irish Met Society is delighted to collaborate with IEHN on this lecture and is very grateful for the use of their lecture theatre.

About the lecture:

The Met Éireann Library manuscripts collection dates from the mid-1800s and includes meteorological observations from various locations throughout Ireland.

This lecture will describe some of the highlights of the collection, including observations taken at the famous Markree Observatory, Co. Sligo in the late 1800s, records from Trinity College Dublin for Easter 1916 and the weather diaries of Dr John William Moore, taken at Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin from 1869 to 1871.

While the meteorological manuscripts were created as scientific records they now offer much more than scientific data.  Each of the hidden treasures provides a unique glimpse into the world in which the observations were taken and tells its own special story of the history of meteorology in Ireland.

Speaker biography:

Mairéad Treanor has been the Librarian in Met Éireann since 2009. Prior to this, she worked in various special and academic libraries, including Parsons Brinckerhoff (Brisbane, Australia), the University of New South Wales Library (Sydney, Australia), the James Hardiman Library (NUI, Galway) and the Bodleian Library (University of Oxford).