Ordinary lives – extraordinary times
Letters of 1916 Co.Wexford Launch SFI Discover Community Engagement Event Thursday 16 April 2015 / 6pm – 9pm Enniscorthy Library, Lymington Road, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC / ALL WELCOME DROP IN BETWEEN 6pm – Continue reading Letters of 1916 Co.Wexford Launch
The Wexford launch of the Letters of 1916 project took place on Thursday, 16th April 2015. The outreach event was made possible through a SFI Discover grant from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). Enniscorthy Library kindly offered its venue for the Continue reading Letters of 1916 Wexford Launch SFI Discover Community Engagement Event
28th April 2015, 3:00-7:00pm An Foras Feasa, Iontas Building, Maynooth University The Letters of 1916 Project is looking for your help. We have 600 images of letters ready to go into our system so they are available for transcription, but Continue reading Letters of 1916 Upload Day
1. Letter from Lady Clonbrock to Mrs Budson, 19 April 1916 Letter from Lady Clonbrock (Augusta Caroline Dillon (née Crofton) to Mrs Budson requesting help in the creation of sub-centres in County Galway for the collection of moss for surgical Continue reading #AskLetters1916 chat: Letter Selection
In the past month You transcribed 190307 characters! We welcomed 72 new users in March. THANK YOU All for contributing to Letters 1916 Project! LETTERS: 1875 letters uploaded to the system, of which 1811 made public to date (31 Mar 2015) 78 letters uploaded to the system Continue reading Progress update: March 2015
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
The next #AskLetters1916 Twitter chat will take place on Monday 20 April 2015 from 5.30 – 6.30pm (GMT). The chat will be hosted by Dr Brian Hughes, a postdoctoral researcher in Trinity College Dublin and former Associate Editor of the Letters of 1916 Continue reading #AskLetters1916 chat: 20 April | Letters of Easter Week, 1916
In the past month You transcribed 352866 characters of which 97% was by the top 20 transcribers. We welcomed 83 new users and we have achieved a new record: Anne Bowes (Annie) from Limerick transcribed 91871 characters! This is almost double what each of Continue reading Progress update: February 2015
Join members of the Letters of 1916 project team and Maynooth University librarians for a “Write Women Back Into History” Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon on Friday 6 March 2015 from 9.30 – 13.30 in Maynooth University Library. This year’s International Women’s Day theme Continue reading Letters of 1916 Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon for International Women’s Day 2015