Paula Carroll

We’re “crowd-transcribing” our archive at the moment in preparation for lodging it to the Digital Repository of Ireland.  We need volunteers to listen to the interviews and write summaries of them (not actually full transcripts). We need a big crowd effort to get to grips with this enormous story archive and try to capture it […]

Our last Talking Landscapes walk before the summer break is on Saturday 16 May at 12 noon.  Led by Michael Sheedy, this is a walk through the Slieve Aughty Mountains, approached from Corrakyle in North East Clare.  Under Michael’s expert guidance, we will walk up to Ard Aoibhinn (1200 ft), walk on to the Danes’ Den and The Fox Dens, get views that sweep

Free nationwide Oral History Mentoring Programme for Community and Heritage Groups: April – June 2026. Plus free equipment for your group to keep.  Application Deadline Tuesday 14 April Learn interview skills and how to record, edit and present your community’s oral histories. We provide free recording equipment which your group can keep. We’ll have you

Cuimhneamh an Chláir broke new ground in 2024, investigating new and innovative ways to manage, interpret and share our community archive. Working with experts from America’s James Madison University, we tackled a question that’s becoming increasingly important: how can we use new technology to preserve our local stories while ensuring we do it the right

We are proud to announce the publication of our comprehensive Step-by-Step Guide for archiving oral histories with the Digital Repository of Ireland. Working with expert archivist Clare Lanigan and Cuimhneamh an Chláir Project Manager Paula Carroll, we’ve created a detailed roadmap for preserving Ireland’s rich oral heritage in digital format using established DRI guidelines and