{"id":419,"date":"2026-09-04T12:33:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/?p=419"},"modified":"2026-09-07T07:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T07:35:24","slug":"royal-irish-academy-nowlan-digitisation-grant-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/royal-irish-academy-nowlan-digitisation-grant-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Irish Academy Nowlan Digitisation Grant Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In very exciting news, Law versus Practice PI Frances Nolan has been awarded a Nowlan Digitisation Grant by the Royal Irish Academy, for a project titled  &#8220;The Court of Claims: The Registers\u2019 Minute Books in the Records of the Trustees for the Irish Forfeitures, 1700-03&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The award will facilitate the structured digitisation of seven volumes of Registers&#8217; Minute Books from the Court of Claims, which was established to resolve the Williamite land settlement in 1700. These records are richly detailed and offer significant insights into social, economic and family life during a period of profound change in Ireland\u2019s history.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" data-attachment-id=\"422\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/royal-irish-academy-nowlan-digitisation-grant-award\/royal-irish-academy_library-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Royal-Irish-Academy_Library-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1760,880\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Single use for this image. 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Copyrighted to SKP \\u0026amp; Associat&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Royal-Irish-Academy_Library-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Royal-Irish-Academy_Library-1-1024x512.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Royal-Irish-Academy_Library-1-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Royal-Irish-Academy_Library-1-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Royal-Irish-Academy_Library-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Royal-Irish-Academy_Library-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Royal-Irish-Academy_Library-1-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Royal-Irish-Academy_Library-1.jpg 1760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image credit: Royal Irish Academy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Law versus Practice PI, Frances Nolan, will work in partnership with the RIA, the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) and the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI), to make these volumes more accessible to researchers and to the wider public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can learn more about the grant scheme and the award <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ria.ie\/2026\/06\/02\/funding-announced-for-four-projects-under-this-years-nowlan-digitisation-grants-scheme\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"781\" data-attachment-id=\"421\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/royal-irish-academy-nowlan-digitisation-grant-award\/screenshot-2026-09-04-at-13-23-37\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-04-at-13.23.37.png\" data-orig-size=\"1220,930\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot 2026-09-04 at 13.23.37\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-04-at-13.23.37-1024x781.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-04-at-13.23.37-1024x781.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-04-at-13.23.37-1024x781.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-04-at-13.23.37-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-04-at-13.23.37-767x585.png 767w, https:\/\/www.lawvpractice.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-04-at-13.23.37.png 1220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In very exciting news, Law versus Practice PI Frances Nolan has been awarded a Nowlan Digitisation Grant by the Royal Irish Academy, for a project titled &#8220;The Court of Claims: The Registers\u2019 Minute Books in the Records of the Trustees for the Irish Forfeitures, 1700-03&#8221;. 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