{"id":4424,"date":"2015-05-26T09:07:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T09:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xl1916apps.mucampus.ie\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2018-04-10T13:57:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T13:57:44","slug":"letters-of-1916-belfast-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/letters-of-1916-belfast-launch","title":{"rendered":"Letters of 1916 Belfast Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Letters of 1916 Belfast Launch<\/a>
\nSFI Discover Community Engagement Event<\/a><\/h1>\n

Thursday 28 May 2015<\/h2>\n

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EXPLORE life in Ireland a century ago<\/span><\/strong>
\nCONTRIBUTE to a crowdsourced history project<\/span><\/strong>
\nLEARN about how a digital archive is created<\/span><\/strong>
\nDISCOVER hidden stories of 1916<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bring in your family letters written between 1 November 1915 – 31 October 1916 to digitize and add to the Letters 1916 archive.<\/p>\n

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DROP IN BETWEEN 5.30pm – 8.30pm and join us for a glass of wine<\/strong><\/h3>\n

5.30 – 6.30 PM OPEN SESSION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Letters\u00a01916 DIY Meet the Team Demo\u00a0\/ Transcribe \/ Digitise<\/p>\n

6.30 – 7.45 PM A YEAR IN THE LIFE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A series of talks exploring life in Ireland a century ago highlighting letters from PRONI\u2019S collection<\/p>\n

Professor Susan Schreibman (Maynooth University)<\/p>\n

Ian Montgomery (Public Record Office of Northern Ireland)<\/p>\n

Stephen Scarth (Public Record Office of Northern Ireland)<\/p>\n

Jason Burke (East Belfast & The Great War)<\/p>\n

7.45 – 8.30 PM RECEPTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

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LOCATION:<\/strong>
\nPublic Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
\n2 Titanic Boulevard, BELFAST, BT3 9HQ<\/p>\n

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC \u00a0\/ \u00a0ALL WELCOME<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Letters of 1916 has been awarded a SFI Discover grant from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). This funding allows the Letters of 1916 project to extend its outreach with four Community Engagement Events in Enniscorthy, Cork, Galway and Belfast in 2015.<\/p>\n

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