#irelandculture — Public Fediverse posts

The Irish Republican Digital Archive: The Future of the Irish Republican Digital Archive. “With more than 7,100 documents now preserved on the Internet Archive, and the final collection expected to exceed 7,500, the Irish Republican Digital Archive has entered a new phase. The active digitising project has concluded, but the archive itself remains freely available. The following answers some of […]

Donegal News: Tunney Song Tradition Trust launch unique song collection. “THE Tunney family, from Letterkenny, in association with Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, launched ‘Where the Linnets Sings 2026’ at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Belfast. It is a unique digital collection of 19 singers spanning five generations and featuring 42 songs made over a 74-year period. Some of the songs have been […]

RTE: ‘The human side’ – project gathers tales from Dublin Port. “Joseph Jones, who began working in the docks of Dublin in 1939, reminiscing and recounting tales from another era, is just one of the Dublin Port workers from down the years who have shared their stories for an oral history project.”

Irish Examiner: Jennifer Horgan: What would a museum of an Irish childhood look like?. “Unlike neighbouring countries, we have yet to build a museum of childhood. We do have a wonderfully curated online version but an online museum is not enough. There are plans for an actual one. The OPW is even legally committed to building it, only the funds aren’t forthcoming.”

RTE: Almost 200,000 Irish historical records released online. “Almost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. The release of 194,000 records will cover seven centuries of Irish history and will make over half a million documents free and permanently available to the public.”

Irish Times: Irish museums hold artefacts from around the world. Should they give them back?. “Not only is there no inventory of Irish objects kept abroad, 90 per cent of Irish institutions do not have a comprehensive online catalogue of what they hold, according to the report. Digitisation levels are generally low and 77 per cent of institutions have no trained provenance staff. Only a […]

Irish Central: Irish Americans invited to share stories for new digital archive ahead of US semiquincentennial. “America Éire, a landmark storytelling initiative that will create a living digital archive of the stories, journeys, and histories of the Irish in America, was announced by Irish America 250 this week in advance of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of […]

TG4: Cartlann TG4 Launched: An Online Research Archive Site, a New Service Which Enables You to Step Back in Time. “TG4 wishes to improve access to the station’s digital archive. Cartlann TG4 contains a valuable and diverse collection of material, reflecting Irish history, culture, music, sport, news, current affairs, entertainment and community life through the medium of the Irish language.”

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council: New Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Archives Collections now available online. “Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council are delighted to have the collections of the La Touche Family, Joseph McGrath and Thomas Cullen digitised and published in the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), an online archive for the preservation of Irish cultural heritage.”

Royal Irish Academy: The Butter Wrapper Collection. “The Butter Museum’s ‘butter wrapper’ collection showcases the array of wrappers that covered butter dairy produce, and date from the 1930s until around the 1980s. This collection highlights the evolution of butter packaging, featuring an array of vintage designs that reflect changing trends and cultural significance.”

Liverpool John Moores University: History students design new Liverpool Irish Centre Digital Archive. “Undergraduate History students at LJMU have helped to launch a new digital archive for the Liverpool Irish Centre. The project, developed in collaboration between the LJMU History Department and the centre, brings together photographs, videos, and other memorabilia from across six decades.”

Digital Repository of Ireland: New Collection in DRI – the Newtown School Archive. “The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is delighted to announce that a new collection – the Newtown School Archive – has been published in the Repository by the South East Technological University. The Newtown School was founded in 1798 by Irish Quakers, during a period of considerable unrest in Ireland, […]

Clare County Council: Launch of ‘Clare’s Stained Glass’ Archive. “Created by Clare-based researcher and photographer John Glynn, this archive brings together more than five years of research into stained-glass windows from more than 130 religious and secular sites. The project highlights a significant yet often under‑recognised aspect of Clare’s cultural heritage, spanning seven […]

Culture Night Commissions 2026
Calling Offaly-based professional artists!
Proposals are now open for Culture Night Commissions 2026—new, innovative work to be presented on 18 Sept 2026.
Deadline: 5pm, 27 April 2026
Commission budget: up to €1,500
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This is so good. Brings me back to simpler times. You never took the Bean Sí's Comb. Still holds true.

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The Bean Sí's Comb (Banshee): Why You Should Never Pick One Up

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The Bean Sí's Comb (Banshee): Why You Should Never Pick One Up

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Spotted in my RSS feeds: Madra Teanga. From the front page: “A free and open source Irish language learning app, built on the success of the Sionnach Beta. We are creating a non-profit community to build an app that anyone can use, contribute to, or even create their own versions.”

Irish Independent: New online archive to use voice of Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh to help unlock memories of dementia patients. “Doireann Ní Mhuircheartaigh was speaking at the launch of… an audio archive of All-Ireland football and hurling finals between 1985 and 2010, packaged in free-to-use form with the aim of being a time machine of precious memories.”

Irish Film Institute: IFI Announces The Launch Of The Amharc Éireann: A View Of Ireland Collection. “This collection of Gael Linn newsreels from the 1950s and 1960s is now available to stream free worldwide on the IFI Archive Player and suite of apps. Additionally, IFI Digital Platforms has developed a new immersive, interactive map of Ireland. This map allows users to explore the collection […]

Tipperary Studies: Preserving Tipperary’s Gravestones in 3D. “In a first for our service, we are hosting a stunning archive of 3D photogrammetry models documenting the graveyards of Tipperary. This collection, created by expert archaeologist Caimin O’Brien, uses cutting-edge technology to revolutionise how we document and preserve our local history…. Each single model in this collection […]

University of Galway: Minister Calleary launches digital edition of first Irish-language newspaper An Gaodhal. “An Gaodhal was a bilingual newspaper, published monthly in Brooklyn, New York, at the end of the 19th century, between 1881 and 1898, and is considered a seminal influence on the Irish-language movement and media.”

Digital Repository of Ireland: New Collection in DRI – The National Herbarium of Ireland digital collection of Irish plants . “The complete collection contains some 20,000 samples of plant products, including fruits, seeds, wood, fibres, plant extracts, and artefacts. At present, the National Herbarium of Ireland digital collection in the DRI Repository has digitally preserved over 5,000 […]

Dr Éamon Phoenix Foundation: New Irish history archive launched by Dr Éamon Phoenix Foundation. “The Dr Éamon Phoenix Foundation, a charity established to preserve and build upon the legacy of the late historian, today launched a new archive of On This Day articles on Irish history – including the use of AI to allow readers to listen to Dr Phoenix ‘reading’ his columns.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/03/dr-eamon-phoenix-foundation-new-irish-history-archive-launched-by-dr-eamon-phoenix-foundation/

TikTok: TikTok Launches Dedicated Irish History Hub. “TikTok is bringing Irish history to life with the official launch of the #IrishHistory Hub. This hub is a dedicated home on TikTok which accommodates the increasing demand to learn more about the stories, people, places, and legends that have shaped Ireland throughout history.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/16/tiktok-tiktok-launches-dedicated-irish-history-hub/

New-to-me, showed up in my RSS feeds: the Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive. From the About page: “Pirate.ie is a free and open archive and comprises historical recordings and oral history interviews. We recognise the value of other historical pirate radio material already online, particularly DX Archive. Our aim is to build a sustainable audio archive of pirate radio for future generations, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/28/new-to-me-irish-pirate-radio-audio-archive/

Irish Echo: New chapter opens as oft-banned rebel publications made available online . “The Irish Republican Digital Archive, founded last year by a group of historically-minded colleagues from around Ireland, catalogues the ebb and flow of republicanism in the modern era, since the 1950s and the order to ‘dump arms’ following the failed Border Campaign, until today, with Sinn Féin the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/20/irish-echo-new-chapter-opens-as-oft-banned-rebel-publications-made-available-online/

RTE: ‘Irish heritage’ – tracking down Dublin’s historic street signs. “Researchers at Trinity College Dublin are calling on the public to help them track down the capital’s old street signs to document them before they disappear. The bilingual green and white signs, which feature the old Irish font Cló Gaelach, date back to the turn of the 20th century and are believed to have been […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/03/rte-irish-heritage-tracking-down-dublins-historic-street-signs/

Irish Post: Funding of €1m will progress project creating historical dictionary of Irish language . “AN ongoing project which will create a dictionary of the Irish language from the 1600s to the present day has received a funding injection of more than €1m. Some €1.1 million has been announced for the Historical Dictionary of Irish or Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge project, which will […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/28/irish-post-funding-of-e1m-will-progress-project-creating-historical-dictionary-of-irish-language/

University College Cork: A Snapshot of Corca Dhuibhne launched. “A Snapshot of Corca Dhuibhne, a new online archive of photographs from the community of Corca Dhuibhne over the last 100 years, is now available to everyone. Ruth Uí Ógáin from CFCD, and a past student of the Department of Digital Humanities UCC, came up with the idea to collect and catalogue the photos and is currently […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/22/university-college-cork-a-snapshot-of-corca-dhuibhne-launched/

Saint Louis University: SLU History Professor Receives Fulbright Specialist Award to Create Digital Tool Focusing on Gaelic Ireland. “Thomas Finan, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Saint Louis University, has received a Fulbright Specialist Award. Finan, who specializes in medieval history and archaeological research, will work with colleagues at the University of Galway to create a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/21/saint-louis-university-slu-history-professor-receives-fulbright-specialist-award-to-create-digital-tool-focusing-on-gaelic-ireland/