Diaspora

Remembering 1916, Recording 2016: Let’s talk about web archiving!

June 24, 2016 · 0 comments

in Digital Collections

by Maria Ryan (2016 Web Archivist) Since our last blog, we have successfully completed four major crawls for our project “Remembering 1916, Recording 2016”. That’s almost 280 more websites for our 2016 web archive.  In our last blog, I said I would take you through how we archive the web, our main processes and how […]

Tagged as: Centenaries, Diaspora, Digital Collections, Digital preservation, Ireland, Irish, Recording 2016, Remembering 1916, Web Archive, Web Archiving

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Fairytale of New York?

November 18, 2011 · 2 comments

in Acquisitions,Collections,Printed books

by Justin Furlong, Acquisitions Librarian I recently returned from a visit to New York. One of the highlights of the trip was a tour of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum which tells the stories of immigrants who lived at 97 Orchard Street, a tenement built in 1863 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. 97 Orchard […]

Tagged as: 65 Mott Street, 97 Orchard Street, Acquisitions Librarian, Bridget Moore, Diaspora, Dublin Directories, Emigration, Florence Scovel Shinn, Griffin Collection, Irish-American, Joseph Moore, Justin Furlong, Louise Montgomery, New York, Stephen Griffin, Tenement Museum, Tenements, Thom's Almanac, Thom's Directories

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