A New Chapter for Irish Historians' Saddest Book'
Briefly

forces for and against an accommodation with Britain... had been fighting... had been caught in a colossal explosion. The blast... destroyed state secrets, church records, property deeds, and much more, dating back to the Middle Ages.
a team of historians, librarians and computer experts based at Trinity has located duplicates for a quarter of a million pages of these lost records in forgotten volumes housed at far-flung libraries and archives, including several in the United States.
Read at www.nytimes.com
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