‘Tell your story’: documenting the 1916 Rising through public memorabilia collection days

Caroline McGee, Project Creative Lead for the Digital Repository of Ireland's Inspiring Ireland 1916 resource, describes what takes place at a public memorabilia collection day.

Telling the story of the 1916 Rising is an important element of the second stage of Inspiring Ireland, an online resource that preserves and exhibits national cultural assets. Inspiring Ireland 1916 brings public memorabilia and the 1916 collections of the National Library, National Archives, National Museum and RTÉ together in one place. It presents digital images of familiar and lesser-known material alongside interpretation by historians. Exhibitions went online on a rolling basis between January and May 2016. The first exhibition used the lens of women's lives to tell stories surrounding the Rising.