Could your family photos and letters help researchers examine 1916 Easter Rising?
“Members of the public are being called upon to dig out old family letters and photographs, to help researchers better understand life in Ireland around the time of the 1916 Easter Rising.
From love letters to correspondence about politics or everyday life, families are being urged to submit letters written six months before and after the Easter Rising.
The Rising was an armed insurrection staged in Ireland during Easter week, 1916. Members of the Irish Volunteers, a nationalist paramilitary group opposed to Irish participation in the First World War, and socialist group the Citizen’s Army, occupied buildings in Dublin and proclaimed an Irish Republic.
The Easter Rising was a crucial turning point in the history of modern Ireland, marking the emergence of physical force republicanism as a new dynamic in Irish political life.
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) hope to better understand life during the Rising by examining letters and related photographs taken by ordinary people at the time.
The documents will be uploaded to a new online archive, due to launch in 2016. (…)”
To read the full article by Emma McFarnon click here.
