Be published in the coming months upon approval by the terminology committee. Author: (Editorial Assistant) The collection of schools and groups is launched! ú The Minister of State of the Council Á Á launched two sites and the entirety at the national plowing competition on Wednesday ÎÀÀ. The aim of the ú project is to digitize and make the Irish Folklore Collection É available online to the public. The first phase (year) of the project involved the digitization of the school's collection, a large body of folklore compiled through the primary school system in thes.
The school collection has been published by county Latest Mailing Database over the past three years, with the final two counties launched this week, Cork & Co now making the entire series available to the public on . Content can then be searched and browsed by region, person name or topic. Dublin City University's and in collaboration with the Irish Folklore Collection, University College Dublin, carried out this work with funding from the Department for Arts, Heritage, Regional Affairs, Rural Affairs and (with support from the National Lottery), from and the Irish Folklore Foundation.
You can find more information on the topic by searching the collection itself here or by reading blog posts related to specific county stories here. A new website was also officially launched yesterday. is a crowdsourcing tool for collating minors' names, on which the public can enter Irish and English names and other details relating to minors' names. The public has the opportunity to promote the country's place-name heritage in the digital age by mapping and sharing nicknames online. In this way, minors' names can be preserved and public awareness of them raised. is a separate website, but users can freely swap between the two sites using one tool.