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Irish Life & Lore from Ireland

Doing an interview outdoors on an Irish summer's day

Now at Irish Life and Lore, over 3,000 voices have been captured as they discuss their own lives and histories, along with personal and family experiences of events in Irish national and social history.

You can now purchase these individual recordings ON DISK €15 or DOWNLOAD €7  to use for study and research or to enjoy at your leisure.

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Irish Missionaries

»The Irish Missionary Stories Project has now been completed.  It consists of 150 recordings compiled with returned Irish Missionaries who have spent many years working abroad. The audio recordings are accompanied by an illustrated and indexed catalogue and are now available for purchase.


Great Houses of Ireland

» The Great Houses of Cork and Kerry, first Collection, was launched by the Irish Heritage Trust at Fota House in Cork on January 26, 2011. The 51 recordings are now available to purchase.

Great Houses of Cork and Kerry, part 1

Great Houses of Ireland, part 2


Record and Preserve Your Family Voices

Maurice O'Keeffe interviewing for a recording

Preserve forever your very own family, company, institution or community history
The history of each and every family is unique. It is as fascinating and varied as the people who formed it, and the times in which they lived. The living members of your family or community can now have their own unique family history compiled on audio, so that not only will the factual history be recorded digitally, but also the personal voices of family members will be preserved for the future. Find out more ...

NEWS

» The book Living History: Voices from Great Houses of Cork and Kerry, written by Jane O'Keeffe will be published by Mercier Press in early 2013. The voices of some of the participants in the Great Houses of Cork and Kerry Oral History Collection of 51 recordings, form the basis for the book.

» The Great Houses of Ireland, second Collection is now available for purchase. It was compiled in the counties of Kerry, Cork, Waterford and Tipperary; this project was also generously funded by FEXCO. The launch was on April 18 at the National Library of Ireland.

» The Trinity College Collection will be launched in May 2012.

» A new Offaly Collection will be available soon.

» Twelve interviews in the Horse Racing Ireland Collection are now available for purchase.

» The First Sligo Collection, the Fifth Kerry Collection and the Second Cork Theatrical Collection will all be launched shortly.

» Interviews are now available for download. Look at recordings in the usual way, then buy by clicking on the Buy MP3 button. Download links are provided after purchase on PayPal and also to your email (please make sure you provide a valid email address).

Topics covered in recordings

including:

Ancient monuments  ESB  (Funeral) Undertaking  Gardaí Siochána  Smuggling  World War One  World War Two 

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Sponsors of our work include:

FEXCO.com

and other sponsors and project partners