Ordinary lives – extraordinary times
As part of RTÉ’s Reflecting the Rising event on Easter Monday (28 March 2016), Professor Susan Schreibman will be giving a talk about the Letters of 1916: A Year in the Life collection entitled “Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times”. The Continue reading Letters of 1916 at RTÉ Reflecting the Rising | 28 March 2016
8th March is International Women’s Day and people around the world are celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women. To mark the day, we would like to highlight some of the women from the Letters of 1916 collection. Continue reading Letters of 1916 – International Women’s Day 2016
The Letters of 1916: A Year in the Life was featured on the RTÉ History Show with Myles Dungan on Sunday 5 March 2016 following the launch of the project on 2 March at Cathal Brugha Barracks in Rathmines, Dublin. Continue reading Letters of 1916 | RTÉ History Show
At the Letters of 1916 launch on Wednesday 2 March, at the top of the room, a slideshow was playing which featured letters, contributors, institutions, events and workflow from the beginning of the project to the launch date. In the Continue reading Letters of 1916 Launch Slideshow
One of our Cork-based collaborators is Dr Donna Alexander (@americasstudies) from University College Cork. At our Cork launch event in November 2015, Donna gave a very interesting talk about how she uses Letters of 1916 with her MA students. Here Continue reading Profile: Donna Alexander
In November 2015, the Letters 1916 team collaborated with The School of History and the Boole Library at University College Cork for an SFI-funded outreach event. The event involved a workshop and talks and provided an opportunity to digitise letters Continue reading Profile: Gabriel Doherty
Each month, we compile a progress report and one of the things we track is the top 20 transcribers. On more than one occasion, Fidelma Carroll has been the top Letters of 1916 transcriber. Fidelma told us about why she Continue reading Profile: Fidelma Carroll
Joyce Timms added a family letter to the Letters of 1916 collection. Joyce told us why she got involved with the project. I collaborated with the Letters of 1916 project because I have a letter which was kept carefully by Continue reading Profile: Joyce Timms
Thérèse McIntyre is the presenter of ‘Herosongs: Where History and Song Meet’, an AthenaMedia Production for RTE Radio 1 as well as being a key member of the Oral History Network of Ireland (OHNI). Thérèse told us about her involvement with Continue reading Profile: Thérèse McIntyre
Dominic Price is a teacher, historian and is the author of The Flame and the Candle, Mayo 1919-1924 (Collins Press, Cork, 2012). He is currently working on a number of projects and he has contributed to the Letters of 1916 Continue reading Profile: Dominic Price