The Letters of 1916 Project was featured on Ireland’s No 1 resource for digital / technology news: the SILICON REPUBLIC.
“In what is being described as a ‘digital collection’ of letters, a new crowdsourced history project is launching at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) this week. The goal is to get the public to upload online any letters and photographs they may have stashed away from around the time of Ireland’s Easter Rising in 1916. The online history project will be live just in time for the centenary of the event.
The new digital archive is being led by researchers at TCD as part of a public history project to recreate ordinary life in Ireland around the time of the Easter Rising. Students on Trinity College’s MPhil in digital humanities and culture project will be working on the initiative, as well. (…)
Allowing letters from personal collections to be read alongside official letters and letters contributed by institutions will add new perspectives to the events of the period and allow us to understand what it was like to live an ordinary life through what were extraordinary times,” explained Dr Susan Schreibman, associate professor in digital humanities in the School of English at TCD, and the project’s principal investigator. (…)
To read the full article by Carmel Doyle click here.
