26 November 2015: Cork launch of ‘Letters of 1916’ project, University College Cork
On Thursday 26 November the Cork launch of the Letters of 1916 project took place in University College Cork. The project was originally set up to create a crowd-sourced archive of personal letters and testimonies relating to the period before and after the Easter Rising, from 1 November 1915 to 31 October 1916. To date, it has collected over 2,200 letters in order to create an online open-access archive of the year around the Easter Rising. The project team hosted a demonstration of the project in the Boole Library from 2-5pm, followed by a reception. The launch, consisting of a number of presentations, took place at 6.30pm in the Boole Lecture Theatre.