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Last week we tweeted about our new accession of Board of Guardian minute books. The next step is for #conservation to do a condition assessment. The books will then be isolated & inspected regularly to ensure that no unwelcome guests have arrived with it! #pestsinarchivespic.twitter.com/wJj74DIu7n

As Germany look to qualify from their World Cup group today, no doubt Tip and Tap – their mascots from the 1974 finals held in West Germany – will be cheering them on. Tip and Tap popped up in a brochure as part of a DFA file on World Cups in the 1970s and 1980s.pic.twitter.com/ZYCTjhNCge

Fifty five years to the date that US President John F Kennedy arrived in Ireland to pay a visit to his ancestral home, here’s a postcard of the Kennedy homestead in Dunganstown, outside New Ross, county Wexford. #OnThisDaypic.twitter.com/jyDebSEHsa

As part of the #VOMaps survey to identify boundaries often only a small area of the map was annotated. This copy of Sheet 57, Co Kerry is the first map our conservators have come across where the un-used area has been cut away. #MapsMondaypic.twitter.com/tCRQfs547n

Delighted to welcome a visit from Culture Club @dublinconnects this morning where the group enjoyed a talk on Ireland’s built heritage which featured examples from our magnificent collection of OPW and Ordnance Survey 19th century maps and plans #CultureConnects #IrishHistorypic.twitter.com/McnQRj5kzB

Yesterday we received a fantastic new accession; six additional minute books (1845-1848), including a register of births (1882-1893), to add to our BG79 South Dublin Union and BG40 Balrothery Union collections. #irisharchivespic.twitter.com/jYZ6uBqHNg

On the day that Poland play their opening game of the World Cup, here’s President Douglas Hyde meeting the Polish team ahead of their friendly against Ireland in 1938. His attendance led to him being controversially removed from his role as a patron of the GAA a month later.pic.twitter.com/L2SeONI6Xh

Conservators sometimes encounter coal soot as surface dirt on documents. Details on this colourful 1920s map record the locations of coalfields and show similarities in the geological topographies of #Ireland and the UK. #MapsMonday #geologypic.twitter.com/dLLchpI9YE

To celebrate Bloomsday, here’s James Joyce's entry in the Clongowes Wood College rollbook for 1891. Listed third from bottom on the page, Joyce also attended school in North Richmond Street and was later accepted into Belvedere College on a non-fee paying basis. #bloomsday2018pic.twitter.com/3ybMfLdX33

Documents relating to the Conscription Crisis of 1918 have been conserved and are now on display in the NAI. They include a letter from Louie Bennett, leader of the Irishwomen’s International League, a prominent #suffragette, trade unionist and pacifist. #Votail100pic.twitter.com/AFzxUXTTii

To mark the unveiling today by President Higgins of a plaque in Dublin Castle commemorating Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and the suffragettes who broke windows there, here’s a Mountjoy Prison report stating her intention to go on hunger strike while in prison. https://buff.ly/2l6IsmM pic.twitter.com/GUVIhL53g3

Hello from the ‘Come together - developing collaboration between archives and higher education’ seminar in the National Archives, Kew, where practical ways to identify, develop and sustain cross-sector collaboration are being explored.pic.twitter.com/YPBWaYdoWp

Big thanks to Kasandra O'Connell, Head of the IFI Irish Film Archive, for her fascinating presentation ‘Irish Independence Film Collection: Bringing our History Home’ given to NAI staff today. #IFIArchive #ifiplayerpic.twitter.com/VFEEM969tg

To ensure that none of the #archival information is lost, our conservators take care of the paper labels on the back of the maps as well. After careful unfolding, #wheatstarchpaste is used to secure the loose paper. #MapsMonday #VOMaps #conservationpic.twitter.com/fu3dXtZLr3

We hope you enjoyed our tweets on the theme of governance and we would like to wish you a Happy International Archives Day from all at the National Archives, Ireland! Happy 70th Birthday to @ICArchiv #IAD18 - check out their 70th anniversary exhibition at https://buff.ly/2LwiJzs pic.twitter.com/PD2Gilb3mw

Taoiseach Jack Lynch’s letter in 1967 to the President of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) requesting favourable consideration of Ireland’s application to join the ECSC at the same time that it enters the EEC and the European Atomic Energy Community.pic.twitter.com/bO8T72seXz

A big thanks to all our talented bakers and sweet-toothers who generously supported the ARC coffee morning in the National Archives today! ARC Cancer Support is a wonderful Irish charity dedicated to helping people with cancer and their families through a range of free services.pic.twitter.com/n964AcSYNC

Another day, another telegram. This time from our embassy in Washington, confirming Ireland’s admission to the UN following a unanimous vote on 14 December 1955. This ended our nine-year wait to join and Ireland took its seat at the General Assembly the following morning.pic.twitter.com/1pC1oqrydO

Continuing our theme of governance, today’s feature is a telegram of congratulations from King George VI to President Seán T O’Kelly on the enactment of the Republic of Ireland Act, 1948 on 18 April 1949. The Act ended Ireland's Dominion status and membership of the Commonwealth.pic.twitter.com/OKgxovC9rb