“RESEARCHERS are calling on the public to dig out old family letters and photographs to help them capture a snapshot of ordinary life around the time of the 1916 Rising.
The project, headed by researchers at Trinity College Dublin, is the first history project in Ireland in which the public will play a key role in the research.
The team are asking for any letters written between November 1, 1915 to October 31, 1916, on any topic – romance, local politics, gossip, the Great War and the Rising – to be uploaded to their website. Interested members of the public can also help the researchers transcribe the uploaded letters to uncover the hidden stories within.
The aim is to have a database of letters by 2016. (…) ”
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