Audio by genre iqda_launch

"Archivists have to live in the past, present and the future"

Catriona Crowe, Senior Archivist at the National Archives of Ireland, at the IQDA launch on the 22nd of June 2010.
Jane Gray of the Irish Qualitative Archive introduces Catriona Crowe. Catriona Crowe talks about her early experiences as an archivist, the struggle to ensure records were preserved for future generations and the trouble she encountered when she spoke to a journalist friend about her difficulties.
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"Now that the interviews are up there, I'm aware of no small degree of trepidation:  what will others make of them?"

Dr Heather Crawford, of the Outside The Glow project, at the IQDA launch on the 22nd of June 2010. Heather Crawford talks about the interviews she conducted on protestant identity in independant Ireland and the experience of handing those interviews over to the archive.
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Data archiving ensures that "the contribution respondents make by participating in our research is preserved into the future".

Dr Jane Gray, Programme Leader at the Irish Qualitative Data Archive, at the IQDA launch on the 22nd of June 2010.
Jane Gray introduces the work of the Irish Qualitative Data Archive and thanks the many people who have so generously leant support to the IQDA.
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When you rethink the past through these life histories you are forced also to rethink the present.

Professer Sean O'Riain, at the IQDA launch on the 22nd of June 2010.
Sean O'Riain introduces the Life History and Social Change Project. He plays two excerpts from the interviews - contrasting stories about going to school.
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"People can see their own towns, see their own villages as they developed over time and understand something of the visual history of  the landscapes that they live in and grow up in."

Dr Rob Kitchin, Director of NIRSA, at the Irish Qualitative Data Archive, at the IQDA launch on the 22nd of June 2010.
Rob Kitchin introduces the NIRSA Photographic Archive, and the Ned Cassidy Photographic Archive.
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"This is the place where I come from, I have history here, when I die I will be buried in a graveyard with my father and my grandparents."

Dr Mary Corcoran at the IQDA launch on the 22nd of June 2010.
Mary Corcoran talks about the research she did in the 1990s with the "lost generation" of Irish emigrants and quotes from one of her interviewees.

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