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ITMA's Dusty Bluebells website launched by Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

Dusty Bluebells: Children's Songs & Rhymes Collected by Hugh Shields

Dusty Bluebells: Children's Songs & Rhymes Collected by Hugh Shields is a new online exhibition highlighting the musical world of the playground.  Based on field recordings made by Hugh Shields in 1961-1975 from informants aged from four to eighty seven, the website showcases the rhymes and riddles that generations of Irish school children sang, shared and grew up with.  The Irish Traditional Music Archive have digitised over 170 of Hugh Shields' original reel-to-reel recordings and made them available for today's generation to hear again in a rich, cura

New Site Explores World War 1 Postcards from across Europe

Return to Sender

Return to Sender, a project funded by Europeana and developed in collaboration with the University of Coventry and Solent University, aims to explore WW1 postcards in the Europeana 1914-1918 collection and the collections of contributing archives from across Europe.