Rebuilding lost archives

There goes Granny's birth certificate:
Destruction of the Four Courts and Irish PRO, 1922

The Irish Times reports that the Irish National Archives, by working together with the British national archives, the public records office of Northern Ireland, the Irish Manuscripts Collection and the library at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) is recreating a substantial part of the Irish Public Records Office's archival collection, just in time for the centenary of its destruction.
  

Archivists have determined that copies and transcripts of the lost records exist in other repositories to a  “greater extent than ever previously imagined.” It is hoped that a digital recreation based on these materials will be available by 2022. 

The records -- records of Irish administration, land grants, wills, Chancery papers going back to the 1400s, and all existing Irish censuses -- were destroyed in an explosion in 1922, when dissident elements of the Irish Republican Army were using the PRO as an ammunition dump (!) during their resistance against the new Irish government. 

The other great collection of Irish records -- local government papers and genealogical data going back centuries  -- had been destroyed, along with the Dublin Customs House that held them, during fighting between the IRA and British forces in 1921. No word on those being recovered.

Thanks:  History News Network for the link.