{"id":6817,"date":"2016-01-04T12:06:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T12:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/?p=6817"},"modified":"2018-07-10T17:13:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T17:13:23","slug":"profile-emma-ni-chearuil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/profile-emma-ni-chearuil","title":{"rendered":"Profile: Emma N\u00ed Chear\u00fail"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Emma<\/a><\/p>\n

Emma N\u00ed Chear\u00fail is a graduate of Modern Irish<\/a> at Maynooth University<\/a> and currently working with Conradh na Gaeilge<\/a>. We asked Emma to tell us about her experiences working with the Letters of 1916. (English version below)<\/p>\n

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Bh\u00ed an deis agam bheith p\u00e1irteach le Litreacha 1916 th\u00e9is dom agallamh a chur ar Emma Clarke agus Eoghan \u00d3 Raghallaigh don chl\u00e1r Fios Feasa<\/i><\/a> ar Raidi\u00f3 na Life<\/a>. \u00a0Thuig m\u00e9 l\u00e1ithreach go raibh rud \u00e9icint t\u00e1bhachtach, rud \u00e9icint speisialta, i mbun acu agus bhain m\u00e9 an-sult as an taighde agus na litreacha acu go dt\u00ed sin a l\u00e9amh. \u00a0N\u00edos deireana\u00ed, bh\u00ed deis agam ceann d\u00e1 mbeochomhr\u00e1ite Twitter a sti\u00faradh<\/a> agus rinneamar pl\u00e9 ar laghad na litreacha Gaeilge a bh\u00ed aimsithe acu agus c\u00faiseanna leis sin.<\/p>\n

T\u00e1 rud \u00e9icint iontach pearsanta faoi litreacha. \u00a0Is bre\u00e1 liom an tionscnamh seo toisc go l\u00e9ir\u00edonn s\u00e9 an gn\u00e9 dhaonna den stair. \u00a0Seachas f\u00edric\u00ed agus staitistic\u00ed n\u00f3 leabhair staire, cuireann s\u00e9 moth\u00fach\u00e1in in i\u00fal agus l\u00e9ir\u00edonn s\u00e9 sc\u00e9alta agus meon na ndaoine \u00f3n am sin ar chaoi nach f\u00e9idir l\u00e9iri\u00fa ach le foinse phr\u00edomha ar n\u00f3s litreacha n\u00e1 c\u00e1rta\u00ed poist. Chomh maith, toisc gur tionscnamh sluafhoinsithe \u00e9 seo, \u00a0t\u00e1 neart sc\u00e9alta nach gcloistear cheana th\u00e9is t\u00edocht chun solais – sc\u00e9alta a bheadh caillte i gcaitheamh ama, agus mar sin is cnuasach iontach luachmhar \u00e9 seo.<\/p>\n

S\u00edlim go dtabharfaidh Litreacha 1916<\/a> tuiscint agus l\u00e9argas suntasach d\u00fainn ar sc\u00e9alta agus saolta i stair na h\u00c9ireann agus na daoine a bh\u00ed baint acu le n\u00e1 a bh\u00ed tionchar ag imeachta\u00ed 1916 ar a saol.<\/p>\n

\"courtesy<\/a>
courtesy of Conradh na Gaeilge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I collaborated with Letters 1916 after interviewing Emma Clarke<\/a> and Eoghan \u00d3 Raghallaigh for Fios Feasa<\/a> on Raidi\u00f3 na Life<\/a>. \u00a0As soon as I came across the project I knew it was something important, something special, and I thoroughly enjoyed going through their website and the collection to date whilst researching it. I later hosted one of their live chat evenings on Twitter<\/a>, in which we discussed the lack of letters sourced as Gaeilge and why that might be.\u00a0 There is something very personal about letters; I love this project because it shows us the human side of history. \u00a0As opposed to facts, figures and history text books, it will showcase emotion, anticipation and insight that only primary sources like personal letters and postcards can hold. Because of the crowdsourced nature of the project too, there are likely many unheard stories that have come to light, which may have otherwise been lost over time, making this an invaluable collection.<\/p>\n

I think Letters of 1916<\/a> will give us a really important insight into stories and lives from Irish history, it shows us the real people who were affected by, contributed to, or had a first hand understanding of the events that unfolded in Ireland in 1916.<\/p>\n

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Emma tweets as @gingeripod<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(originally posted on the Letters of 1916 tumblr<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emma N\u00ed Chear\u00fail is a graduate of Modern Irish at Maynooth University and currently working with Conradh na Gaeilge. We asked Emma to tell us about her experiences working with the Letters of 1916. (English version below) Bh\u00ed an deis Continue reading Profile: Emma N\u00ed Chear\u00fail<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,7],"tags":[245],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6820,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions\/6820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}