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 […]

Slugger O’Toole: Navigating fraught legacies with trauma-informed archival practice. “The event featured a series of presentations and panel discussions from archivists, journalists, and historians, providing deep insights into how to navigate the fraught legacies of conflict contained within historical records.”

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 […]

Sinn Féin: Urgent action needed to protect mother and baby home records – Kathleen Funchion MEP. “Sinn Fein MEP for Ireland South, Kathleen Funchion, has called on the government to fund a modern digital archive system to preserve Mother and Baby Home records. This comes following Tusla’s acknowledgement that the current database is built on unsupported legacy software, which is not fit […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/26/sinn-fein-urgent-action-needed-to-protect-mother-and-baby-home-records-kathleen-funchion-mep/

#IrelandHistory When you cycle the road from #Cahersiveen to #Glenbeigh on Eurovelo 1 you are following in the footsteps of the very local Fenian insurrection of Feb 1867

https://youtu.be/EjlynfrR45Y

The Journal (Ireland): University of Galway publishes digital archive of hand-made Long Kesh journals. “A NEW DIGITAL archive of prison journals created in Long Kesh internment camp during the 1970s has been made available by University of Galway. The university has published a digital archive of journals and photos from the Maze Prison from the mid-1970s. It was provided with the journals by […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/08/the-journal-university-of-galway-publishes-digital-archive-of-hand-made-long-kesh-journals/

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/