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Northern Ireland Literary Archive

The Archive consists of digitised manuscripts and letters belonging to nine writers born or based in Northern Ireland. This material was donated to the Linen Hall Library over many years and is being presented in digital form for the first time. The material ranges from 19th century manuscripts by Samuel Ferguson through to the late poems of John Hewitt in the 1980s.

Taken together the Archive constitutes an important part of the literary history of Northern Ireland.

https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/

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The Poetics of Print: The Private Press Tradition & Irish Poetry – Digital Exhibition TCD

The Poetics of Print is a digital exhibition exploring the Irish private press tradition and its role in the development of modern Irish poetry.

https://www.tcd.ie/library/exhibitions/poetics/

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MOTHERBABYHOME – Poetry Project by Kimberely Campanello

MOTHERBABYHOME, a collection of 796 conceptual and visual poems on the St. Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway, was published by zimZalla Avant Objects in April 2019. Also in April, above / ground press published her chapbook running commentary along the bottom of the tapestry.

http://www.kimberlycampanello.com/motherbabyhome

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Architecture English History

Asylum Archive

Asylum Archive documents Ireland’s Direct Provision system. The artist VUKAŠIN NEDELJKOVIĆ engages with the everyday realities of asylum seekers and draws on his personal experience of being an asylum seeker and living in direct provision centres in Ireland between the years of 2007-2009.

http://www.asylumarchive.com/

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English Open Library

University of Buffalo – Digital Collection/James Joyce

Covering the entire span of his artistic life, the James Joyce Collection is the largest Joyce collection in the world and contains his private library; holograph drafts, typescript pages and corrected galleys and page proofs for Ulysses; 66 notebooks, transcriptions, typescripts, galleys, page proofs and the author’s copy with corrections of Finnegans Wake; documents for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Joyce’s lecture on Daniel Defoe; the notebook for Exiles; hundreds of letters between Sylvia Beach and Joyce; Beach’s printing records for the publication of Ulysses; John Quinn’s letters to Beach and Joyce regarding the trial over Ulysses and The Little Review as well as other Joyce and Beach correspondence; Joyce’s presentation copies to Beach; portraits and over 150 photographs of Joyce and his family; numerous personal artifacts owned by Joyce; thousands of his newspaper clippings; and notebooks, sketchbooks and letters by Joyce’s daughter Lucia Joyce. Supplementing the archive is a complete set of first editions, including all issues and states of every book published by Joyce, translations, a large number of his magazine appearances and virtually all the literary criticism in book form on Joyce.

Complete details about the Poetry Collection’s James Joyce Collection can be found in the collection’s online catalog. For now, the digital collections site only includes select photographs from the James Joyce Collection.

http://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/collection/LIB-PC004/

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History

Beyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury

Beyond 2022 is an all-island and international collaboration. Working together, we will launch a Virtual Record Treasury for Irish history—an open-access, virtual reconstruction of the Record Treasury destroyed in 1922. Combining historical research, archival discovery and technical innovation, Beyond 2022 offers a lasting and meaningful legacy from the Decade of Centenaries, democratising access to invaluable records and illuminating seven centuries of Irish history.

Beyond 2022 is funded by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht under Project Ireland 2040. We are proud to have inspired a unique collaboration between our Core Partners and a growing list of Participating Institutions in Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. The National Archives (Ireland), The National Archives (UK), The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (Belfast), The Irish Manuscripts Commission The Library, Trinity College Dublin.

https://beyond2022.ie

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History Open Library

Endangered Archive’s Programme

The Endangered Archives Programme captures forgotten and still not written histories, often suppressed or marginalised. It gives voice to the voiceless: it opens a dialogue with global humanity’s multiple pasts. It is a library of history still waiting to be written.

Lisbet Rausing, Co-founder of the Endangered Archives Programme
The Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) facilitates the digitisation of archives around the world that are in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration. Thanks to generous funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, we have provided grants to more than 400 projects in 90 countries worldwide, in over 100 languages and scripts.

Since 2004, the Programme has digitised over seven million images and 25 thousand sound tracks. Archive types digitised so far include rare printed sources, manuscripts, visual materials, audio recordings. This continually expanding online collection is available freely through local archival partners, this website and it is discoverable via the British Library catalogue, for research, inspiration and enjoyment.

You can explore our archives in three ways: browse using the tab above; type a keyword or keywords into the search box above, or click on the interactive map below.

EXPLORE THE ARCHIVES takes you directly to the online collections. Here you will find a wealth of material covering a huge range of subject matter from all over the world

ABOUT THE PROGRAMME provides an overview of the Programme and our principles

The GRANTS section provides all the information you need if you would like to apply for a grant in our annual award cycle, or if you are a current award holder

The extensive RESOURCES AND TRAINING section covers our publications, podcasts, webinars, other sources of funding and a wealth of practical advice on preservation and digitisation and the many aspects of digitising endangered cultural heritage.

Link: https://eap.bl.uk/search

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Modernist Archives Publishing Project

The Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP) is a critical digital archive of early twentieth-century publishing history. The goal of this site is to display, curate, and describe the documents that go into the making of a book. The MAPP collection is constantly growing and currently contains thousands of images from archives and special collections relating to Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press including: letters, dust jackets, financial records, paper samples, illustrations, sketches, production sheets, and ephemera. These newly digitized materials are presented along with peer-reviewed biographies, bibliographical information, and other scholarly materials.

https://www.modernistarchives.com/

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The Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America amplifies the value of libraries and cultural organizations as Americans’ most trusted sources of shared knowledge. We do this by collaborating with partners to accelerate innovative tools and ideas that empower and equip libraries to make information more accessible.

https://dp.la/browse-by-topic

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History

Umbra Search African American History

Umbra Search African American History makes African American history more broadly accessible through a freely available widget and search tool, umbrasearch.org; digitization of African American materials across University of Minnesota collections; and support of students, educators, artists, and the public through residencies, workshops, and events locally and around the country. It brings together hundreds of thousands digitized materials from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country. Umbra Search celebrates the vital efforts of the individuals and institutions that have helped to preserve and make accessible online hundreds of thousands of pieces of African American history and culture, and we pay homage to the Umbra Society of the early 1960s, a renegade group of Black writers and poets who helped create the Black Arts Movement. We continue to add content and make changes that we hope will improve how well Umbra Search works. Umbra Search is developed by the Givens Collection of African American Literature at the University of Minnesota Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections, with Penumbra Theatre Company. We are indebted to the Digital Public Library of America, whose corpus provides over half of the content found in Umbra Search. Umbra Search is the recipient of the 2017 Award for Access from the Center for Research Libraries. Umbra Search is made possible through generous support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the Council on Library and Information Resources.

https://www.umbrasearch.org/pages/about

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