Inspiring Ireland 1916 launched at the Royal Irish Academy by Minister of State for the Diaspora, Jimmy Deenihan T.D.

At a launch in the Royal Irish Academy, Minister of State for the Diaspora, Jimmy Deenihan T.D., revealed a new phase of the Digital Repository of Ireland’s Inspiring Ireland project — a series of exhibits focusing on the known and less-known stories of people and events surrounding the Rising, brought online over the first six months of 2016 as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme.

Inspiring Ireland 1916: Weaving Public and Private Narratives uses digitised photos, diaries, posters, recordings, video and ephemera to tell the stories that surround the Rising and paint a picture of everyday lives in 1916. It combines expert narrative with objects from the National Archives of Ireland, the National Library of Ireland, the National Museum of Ireland and RTÉ Archives alongside objects from private collections.