Irish Archives and History Projects on Facebook

As part of background research for my dissertation, I am trying to collate a list of Irish archives/museums and community/individual history projects that have an active Facebook page and post historical material. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far.

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Cultural/Social:

Dublin Dockers – Amazing selection of scanned images. Post regularly.

Irish Queer Archive – Excellent quality of scans and descriptions of items. Posts every few days.

Irish Photo Archive – Amazing selection of images. Updated at least once a day.

Irish Traditional Music Archive – Mainly contemporary posts. Some historical images.

Where Were You? – Series of photos posted in batches every other week. Lots of personal comments and memories.

Gay Health Action (GHA) Benefit Disco at Sides DC. Flyer, designer unattributed. 1985 [Ephemera Collection, IQA/NLI]

Established:

Irish Architectural Archive – Post regularly but not much historical stuff.

County Archives

- Clare – Updated quite a bit. Interesting conservation photos.

- Cork – Very irregular posts. Some historical material.

- Donegal -Updated quite regularly. Mainly historical items.

- Waterford – Updated quite regularly. Some historical material.

Glasnevin Museum – Great mixture of posts about contemporary issues (tour guides etc.) and historical bits and pieces.

National Library of Ireland – Excellently run page. Updated regularly.

Political:

Irish Anarchist History Archive – Irregular posts of scanned up documents or photos.

Irish Student Movement Research Project – Nice mixture of scans and short text posts.

Official Republican/WP Archive – Diverse selection of photos and newspaper clippings. Some scans not of high quality.

Students outside Dail Eireann highlighting the Stardust (Artane, 1981) and the Central Hotel (Bundoran, 1980) fire disasters. Credit – Irish Student Movement Research Project.

Religious:

Capuchin Archive - Post fantastic historical documents every other day.

Sport:

Dublin Maccabi (Jewish sporting club)  – All historical photos and documents. Lots of personal comments and memories.

Jackie Jameson Irish Football Legend (Bohs) – Mainly historical photos being posted.

Dalymount Park in 1952. Credit – Jackie Jameson Irish Football Legend