Photographs

Family Fragments from the First World War

by Bean an Phoist on March 15, 2012 · 10 comments

in Digital Collections,Events,Projects

History as the Sum of Our Stories by Avice-Claire McGovern, Librarian The digital age has caused a shift in our collective remembrance practices. No longer solely the province of professional historians, the great democratization of information production and sharing brought about by the world-wide web means that anyone can contribute to the patchwork of the [...]

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Small Lives

by Aoife O Connor on August 23, 2011 · 7 comments

in Collections,Exhibitions,Photographs

We might not know most of their names or where they are from, but I got to know the children in the upcoming Small Lives Exhibition very well. I started work on the exhibition back in April, going through our collection of digitised photographs. I put them all into a folder and pored over them trying [...]

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