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Over the past seven years, a team of historians, librarians, and computer experts based at Trinity has located duplicates for 250,000 pages of records lost in a fire during Ireland's civil war.
A groundbreaking project has brought seven centuries of public records back to life 100 years after they were destroyed during the shelling of the Four Courts at the beginning of the Irish Civil War.