Under the auspices of our Dublin Diaries project last year, we put together a unique TV calendar. It was packed with nuggets of forgotten histories, of names and events lost in the past and resurrected to populate each day of the year. All of these historical nuggets were be dug up from several primary archives located in Dublin such as the Irish Times, specialized collections in The National Archive, the registrar at Kilmainham Jail and the records at Glasnevin Cemetery.
Members of the public helped us narrate the scripts produced as a result, and then down in the dungeons of DCTV, our team of skilled video technicians worked night and day to churn out the end products. For the first time, these are being made available for you to view on our Vimeo page.
After our audio collection efforts in the office yesterday afternoon, we have now finished collecting all the audio for the Dublin Diaries project. A sincere thanks goes out to all the community groups and individuals that assisted us in arranging sessions where we could come out and record narrations for the three minute pieces. It was a long affair, but it’s all done now and a full list of thanks will come soon.
We are always looking for more people to do audio recordings for Dublin Diaries, so this Sunday we are providing people with a chance to come down to our offices and record.
There is a lot of information about what we are doing over here. So that should clear things up a little for you.
So we have a session set aside for individuals to come in and do recordings this Sunday at 4pm at our Offices at
101-103 James Street, The Digital Hub, Dublin 8.
James is collecting audio tomorrow for Dublin Diaries out in the Restart back to work scheme in Swords. The picture above was taken on one of our last audio collections out in Bray, the three women pictured are members of the Silver Threads group. It’s a women’s group that comes together twice a week to do knitting and other crafts. Some times they sell their wares for charities.
