‘The only hope is that the measure is so poorly thought-through and therefore so absurd, that it will be impossible to implement it. Perhaps the records will show that this was just a foolish afterthought and perhaps those records will eventually end up in an archive worthy of a self-respecting State’.
I hope that Fintan O’ [...]
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‘A State hell-bent on wiping its collective memory’
Posted in Uncategorized on November 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
History on RTE
Posted in Uncategorized on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Having endured the Irish summer, which should be renamed Rain, RTE Autumn schedules have wetted the appetite for those interested in history, genealogy and archives, with three programmes of varying quality over the past ten days.
It has eventually arrived on our shores, with all the fanfare and marketing of its British cousin, the Irish [...]
‘I went riding on my bike. With a spanner, pump, back and front light…’
Posted in Uncategorized on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With ‘le tour de France’ in full swing, I recently visited an exhibition entitled ‘Wheels of Fortune. The Story of Raleigh Cycles of Nottingham’ at the Weston Gallery, University Park, Nottingham. This exhibition draws chiefly on the archives of the Raleigh Cycle Company (now Raleigh Cycle Ltd.) held at Nottinghamshire Archives. It has been [...]
Web 2.0 ‘an attitude not a technology’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Web 2.0, wikis on June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I thought in the spirit of Web 2.0 ‘culture of openess’ that I would share my positive experiences of a recent workshop in Manchester entitled, ‘Sharing Made Simple: a practical approach to social software’. The day was full of new terminologies and activities in the Web 2.0 world. Buzz words such as wikis, flickr, del.ic.ous, [...]
Once upon a time in the archives!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Copyright, Creative Commons on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Musing to myself one evening, I started thinking about what films can have archives, archivists, records, strong rooms…inserted into the title, for example, ‘A fistful of records’. I came across the ‘There will be documents’ image while trawling the web. I wish I had the ingenuity and artistic talent to draw the image, unfortunately not, [...]
