Tuesday December 6, 2016 - the 94th anniversary of the establishment of the Irish Free State - saw a wonderful launch of "Frongoch and 1916: Recreating a Lost Landscape" at National Museum of Ireland – Decorative…
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Inspiring Ireland is pleased to announce an exciting new digital cultural heritage project to mark the centenary of the internment camp at Frongoch, Merionethshire, Wales, which held approximately 1,800 Irish prisoners, including Michael Collins, following the…
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L-R: Caroline McGee, Inspiring Ireland 1916 Project Creative Lead, visual artist Varvara Shavrova, hsitorian and archivist Catriona Crowe, National Archives of Ireland, and design historian Lisa Godson, National College of Art and Design (NCAD) It’s been…
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The second international Inspiring Ireland collection day took place on Sunday April 17th in New York City. Members of the public brought their 1916 memorabilia to be professionally digitised and shared family stories at the event…
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L-R: Dr Natalie Harrower, Director, DRI; Dan Mulhall, Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain; Caroline McGee, Inspiring Ireland 1916 Project Creative Lead, at the Inspiring Ireland 1916 Collection Day at the Embassy of Ireland, London. Photo…
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Following the success of recent Inspiring Ireland 1916 public memorabilia 'collection days' in Dublin, the Digital Repository of Ireland is delighted to announce that it is holding three new collection day events at home and abroad…
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At a launch in the Royal Irish Academy, Minister of State for the Diaspora, Jimmy Deenihan T.D., revealed a new phase of the Digital Repository of Ireland’s Inspiring Ireland project — a series of exhibits focusing…
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Caroline McGee, Project Creative Lead for the Digital Repository of Ireland's Inspiring Ireland 1916 resource, describes what takes place at a public memorabilia collection day. Telling the story of the 1916 Rising is an important element…
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The first Inspiring Ireland 1916 collection day was held on 31 October 2015 in partnership with the National Library of Ireland, Dublin. Members of the public brought treasured objects from 1916 to be digitised and told…
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