IVRLA Credits and Acknowledgements

The IVRLA would like to thank everyone who assisted and supported our work from 2005 to 2010. A huge number of people were involved, including our very dedicated and hard-working staff all of whom are listed on the staff page and to whom we are most grateful. Particular thanks are due to the people listed here, many of whom provided assistance above and beyond the call of duty.

UCD Management and Support Teams

• Thanks to those whose vision was instrumental in establishing this project: Mr. Sean Philips former UCD Librarian; Professor Mary E. Daly, Principal, College of Arts and Celtic Studies; Professor Liam McMathuna, Head of the School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics; and Professor Mary Burke and Dr. Judith Wusteman of the School of Information and Library Studies.

• For direction and support that were crucial to the project's success,we would like to thank our working group members Marie Burke, Dr Marc Caball, Professor Mary E. Daly, Professor Gerardine Meaney, Audrey Drohan, Dr Dervila Layden and Dr John Brooks Howard; the Senior Management Team and all the staff of UCD Library, especially Shirley Moloney for helping to balance the books and the endless good humour, and Joseph Greene and Órna Roche for their cataloguing expertise, friendship and perl scripts; UCD Research, in particular Professor Des Fitzgerald, Dr Aoibhean Gibbons, and Dr Aideen Hartney; Valerie Norton, manager of the Humanities Institute of Ireland, for her constant support, patience and good will; and former members of our working group, Dr John McCafferty, Míchéal Ó Cléirigh Institute and Dr Lorraine McGinty, School of Computer Science and Informatics.

• For their invaluable support and advice, thanks to the Research IT team, particularly Fred Clarke, Valentin Choulkov, and Ruth Lynch; to the Corporate and Legal staff, particularly Hazel Flynn, Rena Lohan and John Coman; to Rob Corbett of Arthur Cox; to TJ McIntyre for advice on copyright and IPR; to Pat Frain and Tara McMahon from NovaUCD; and to Claire Percy, Dominic Martella and all the staff in University Relations (Communications).

Source Repositories and Copyright Holders

• Sincere thanks to the academic, professional and support staff of the repositories and schools who participated so fully in this project: the National Folklore Collection at UCD; UCD Archives; UCD Library Special Collections; the Irish Dialect Archive; the UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy; and the UCD School of Geological Sciences. Particular thanks to Professor Séamas Ó Catháin, Seosamh Watson, Professor Ríonach uí Ógáin, Críostoír Mac Cárthaigh, Seamus Helferty, Evelyn Flanagan and Eugene Roche for their support, patience, enthusiasm, hospitality and friendship.

• Thanks to all the copyright holders who allowed their material to be reproduced in the interests of academic research. We would particularly like to acknowledge the Prior Provincial and the Irish Province of the Order of Friars Minor (OFM) for permission to use material transferred to UCD under the terms of the UCD-OFM Partnership, Eamon de Valera for permission to use photographs of Eamon de Valera, as well as material from the Irish Press, and Frank Aiken for permission to reproduce material from his father's family album.

Special Mention

• Sinead Keogh, Alexandra Caccamo, Mary Holland, Helen Brosnan and Senan Healy who all undertook dissertation research on issues relating to the IVRLA goals.


• David Donald and all on the Spoken Word Matters project in Glasgow Caledonian University who gave invaluable advice on the utilisation of audio files.


• To our colleagues and friends in Irish Script on Screen (ISOS), Trinity College Dublin (TCD), National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM), Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) and Queen's University, Belfast for their support.


• The international Fedora community, the members of the UK & Ireland Fedora User group and the IMPROVE consortium.


• The external professional services, including Athena Media Ltd for their exemplary production work on the podcasts for the Joyce's Dublin project, the promotional showreel and videocast series on the IVRLA digital objects; Byron Creative Ltd; UCD Media Services; Applied Signs & Display Ltd; and Typetec.