Welcome to the IVRLA Project
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The IVRLA is a digital Humanities and Social Sciences repository, which draws on the extensive resources of archival and rare material held in University College Dublin, and allows researchers to access this material in a digitised format, from a single virtual location. The material is arranged in curated collections which can be browsed or searched.
As well as the collections, the IVRLA offers a series of 17 exciting research projects which demonstrate the potential of the IVRLA as a significant resource for scholars.
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IVRLA collections are moving
29/03/12
Please note that the IVRLA collections will be moving to UCD Digital Library this summer. More details to follow.
The IVRLA was launched a year ago...what have you discovered?
10/11/11
IVRLA Blogs
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IVRLA Blog - digitalMatters
Keep up-to-date with the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive project in University College Dublin.
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IVRLA Research Blog
The Research Blog of the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive focuses on the research projects.
IVRLA Digital Discourses
Click here to view our video and audiocasts.
This section includes a showreel reviewing the
diverse material included in the IVRLA repository, four short videos in which curatorial and academic experts discuss specific IVRLA digital objects,
and highlights of our academic launch activities.
Focused Themes: Social History
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Who we are is recorded in how we talk, what we sing, how we do things, how we build things - delve into the social consciousness of Ireland.
The aim of this project was to begin to catalogue, index, and conserve the primary school copybooks entrusted to the National Folklore Collection under the 1937-38 Schools’ Scheme, a joint initiative carried out under the direction of the former Irish Folklore Commission, with the assistance of the Department of Education and the Irish National Tea...
The project seeks to build on the earlier work of the Irish Folklore Commission in collecting the Schools’ Survey in 1937-38. As this project was necessarily far smaller in scope, it was decided to focus on the collection of folklore, and specifically games, from school children in seven schools within the greater Dublin area. The method of recordi...
This project’s aim is to digitise the first year of the song collection of Tom Munnelly in order to make the material more easily accessible and to preserve it into the future. Tom worked as a full-time song collector for the Department of Irish Folklore from 1971 up until he passed away in 2007. In this position, Tom recorded over 1,500 tapes (ove...
Selection of photographs from the National Folklore Collection which illustrates the work of the Irish Folklore Commission and its successors.
Collection of broadsheet and single ballads which were the major source for Ó Lochlainn's two volumes of Irish street ballads.
This project continues the work done under the National Famine Commemoration Project, which was established at the end of 1995 and began operation the following year to mark the 150th anniversary of the Great Irish Famine. The principal investigators on the National Famine Commemoration Project were Mary E. Daly and Cormac Ó Gráda from UCD and Davi...
This sub-collection consists of five volumes of essays dealing with a wide range of local folk tradition and history, written by schoolchildren in 1937-38, and drawing on information recorded from parents, relatives and neighbours living in the districts
Press Photographs from the Papers of Frank Aiken
