Description
The Cork Folklore Project is a non-profit community research archive in partnership with the Department of Folklore and Ethnology at UCC The Cork Folklore Project was founded as a non-profit community research archive in partnership with the Department of Folklore and Ethnology at University College Cork, Northside Community Enterprises and the Department of Social Protection. Serving as a community employment scheme, more than eighty people have worked on the project, acquiring training in computers, oral history interviewing, research, photography, video and sound recording, desktop publishing, archival methods and more.
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facebook.comQuarter Block Party kicking off the #weekend in #Cork #CorkCity around @NorthMainCork Check out the fantastic @QtrBlockParty #QBP18 lineup & timetable below! Bring on the #Music for the start of #Spring!
Thanks to deepRed Productions for sharing advice & expertise on #video #recording & equipment. We plan to upgrade our #collecting capacity & branch out to video #interviews! Cheers to Emmet, @jsbroekhuizen & Phil for meeting in Metropole Hotel Cork #Cork #folklore #oralhistory
One of #Cork businesses which stock our #folklore magazine is Sharp Urban Barbers, George's Quay- Sharp Urban Barber Thanks guys! #folklorethursday in the #community
Our researcher David McCarthy had a wonderful interview with the remarkable 102-year-old #Cork woman Mary McGrath yesterday. She worked in the Jennings Bottling Factory for years! #folklore #archive #localhistory We look forward to sharing some audio clips soon!
Deadline for our CE Scheme job is this Thursday 1st Feb. Please share! Apply here: http://ow.ly/nn9x30i5qxi #CorkJobs #lovecork #jobfairy #irishjobs #jobsearch #Cork #Corkjobfairy
The Commodore Bar from our Roy Hammond Photographic Collection. Anyone like to guess where this in #Cork?
Wonderful documentary about Irish poet Máire Mhac an tSaoi. Clár faisnéis iontach anseo: http://www.tg4.ie/en/programmes/deargdhuil/ AnatomyofPassion Paula Kehoe
A sneak peek inside the tower of the North Cathedral #Cork. Who knows what stories lie behind the years of graffiti going back to the 19th century?! Hopefully we can track some down. #folklorethursday #throwbackthursday
Our Archive Magazine made it to New York #NYC at @GrandCentralNYC for theJ.P. Morgan US SQUASH ToC Squash #Squash #TournamentOfChampions 2018. #ToC18 Many thanks to the #IrishDiaspora #Diaspora #Cork Diaspora. Where have you seen the archive?
Might be of interest to our Cork Folklore followers. Talk on this afternoon!
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