Ordinary lives – extraordinary times
’16 Letters is a television documentary based on stories from the Letters of 1916 collection. Presented by Ryan Tubridy and filmed in the GPO, ’16 Letters sees the written words of ordinary and extraordinary people brought back to life, one Continue reading ’16 Letters documentary | Sunday 27 March 2016
The Letters of 1916 project was launched in the Consulate General of Ireland, New York on St. Patrick’s Day as part of its Ireland 2016 centenary programme. The event took place after the New York St. Patrick’s Day parade which has Continue reading Letters of 1916 New York Launch | 17 March 2016
In Autumn 2015, the annual Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) conference was held in Lyon, France. The Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml), is a non-profit consortium composed of academic institutions, individual scholars and research project teams from around the world engaged in Continue reading Letters 1916 at the TEI Conference 2015, Lyon, France
Looking after your letters A guest blog post by Charlotte Anstis, a Conservation Intern at the National Archives of Ireland Through the centuries paper has shown itself to be an incredibly robust and flexible material in many ways, illustrated by its Continue reading Looking after your letters
Frank Lynam has more than a decade of experience working in R&D in the technology sector. He completed his BA at Trinity College Dublin where he read Ancient History and Archaeology and Italian. He studied Mesopotamian archaeology and the archaeology Continue reading Publishing the letters of 1916 to the Semantic Web | Frank Lynam
At the end of the summer of 2014 I undertook a 2-week internship with the Letters of 1916 project. Having chatted with Susan Schreibman, the project’s principle investigator, we decided that I should do a feasibility study that would Continue reading Publishing the letters of 1916 to the Semantic Web
We have just added our newest featured letter post to the site. The post was created by Edward Kearns who studied English and Sociology in University College Dublin before moving on to the M.Phil course in Digital Humanities and Culture in Trinity College Dublin. Continue reading Featured Letter by Edward Kearns: John Quinn to George Gavan Duffy, 9 September 1916
FEATURED LETTER Letter from John Quinn to George Gavan Duffy, 9 September 1916 (University College Dublin Archives) by Edward Kearns On 9 September 1916, John Quinn sent a letter across the Atlantic to his fellow lawyer George Gavan Duffy. A Continue reading Featured Letter by Edward Kearns: John Quinn to George Gavan Duffy, 9 September 1916
FEATURED LETTER Letter from Edward O’Farrell to the Controller, Foreign Trade Department, 29 February 1916 (National Archives of Ireland) by Louise Tobin During 1915 and 1916, the Great War and the Easter Rising impacted Ireland’s businesses and economy. One letter Continue reading Featured letter: Letter from Edward O’Farrell to the Controller, Foreign Trade Department, 29 February 1916 (National Archives of Ireland)