Ordinary lives – extraordinary times
The July #AskLetters1916 Twitter chat took place on 1 July from 5.30 – 6.30pm (GMT). The topic for the chat was: CROWDSOURCING The chat was very animated with lots of ideas and observations exchanged over the hour. We had contributions from Continue reading #AskLetters1916 chat 1 July 2014 – #crowdsourcing
The process of creating a digital collection such as The letters of 1916, takes many people with many skills and expertise. This is the first blog post that describes one piece of the workflow from sourcing an analogue document to Continue reading Featured Institution: National Archives of Ireland
We have just added Michael Gorman’s profile to our ‘Featured Profiles’ section. Michael heard about the Letters of 1916 project from his son and added a selection of his parents’ letters which were written between 1 November 1915 and 31 October 1916. Continue reading New Featured Profile: Michael Gorman
The next #AskLetters1916 Twitter chat will take place on 1 July from 5.30 – 6.30pm (GMT). The topic for the chat is: CROWDSOURCING What is crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing involves engaging a community of users to carry out tasks that cannot Continue reading #AskLetters1916 Twitter Chat: 1 July 2014
Michael Gorman is the eldest son of Michael and Susan Gorman. He was born in 1927 and lived all his life, until his marriage in 1970, in the family home at 40 Marlborough Road, Donnybrook, Dublin. He was the middle Continue reading Featured Profile: Michael Gorman
We have just added Tessa Finn’s profile to our ‘Featured Profiles’ section. Tessa came to the Letters of 1916 launch in September 2013 with a folder containing around 100 letters. These letters were written in 1916 by May Fay and James Continue reading New featured profile: Tessa Finn, Letter Collection Contributor
We are delighted to introduce the Text Analysis of the Letters 1916 set up as part of Roman Bleier’s internship at the Center for High Performance Computing in TCD and the Letters of 1916 project. The goal of the internship Continue reading Text Analysis of the 1916 Letters
IrishCentral is the largest Irish site in North America and covers news and interests, from the nostalgic and the modern Irish America and Ireland. We are delighted to see the Letters of 1916 Project featured on the Irish Central website, Continue reading Letters 1916 Project featured on Irish Central website
Tessa Finn was brought up in Dublin and describes herself as a returned wanderer, living back in Dublin since 2007, after spending 25 years abroad.She studied in UCD and then worked in medical research for many years in London and Continue reading Featured Profile: Tessa Finn
The Letters of 1916 was launched on 8 May 2014 at the National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM) to mark the move from Trinity College Dublin to its next phase at An Foras Feasa, The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions. Continue reading Kildare Launch of Letters of 1916