the Breslin Archive

The aim of the Breslin Archive is to digitally preserve analogue photographs of Ireland from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. @johnbreslin

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From Photos and Negatives to Omeka and Flickr: A Step-by-Step Guide
https://t.co/VhqyZkXfF6 on
@Medium by @johnbreslin

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#WDPD2023 #digipres #WorldDigitalPreservationDay #Metadata #Archiving #GLAM

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@irelandincolour We recently acquired a signed photograph of Nancy Carroll for our archive - to be digitised

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Same building yesterday

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#100yearsago

Two women and a man rowing a boat in front of Castlehyde House, ancestral home of Irish president Douglas Hyde, later owned by @MichaelFlatley

June 1922

River (Munster) Blackwater, County Cork https://t.co/DDaI610Z9a

Link: https://t.co/I70capuJ0L

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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@johnbreslin @Siobhanholliman Read more in today’s @TuamHerald

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Thank you to @SiobhanHolliman for interviewing me about the @breslinarchive in this week’s Tuam Herald

Looking back has a future: Photos are a precious insight into family and social history https://t.co/fAuwErORAa

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Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

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A group of men standing outside a @BankofIreland on Shop St., Tuam, later the library, and now an Intreo office.
Aug 1927.
The car reg is YI 6621 which was from Dublin City (YI 1 to YI 9999 = Apr 1921 to Mar 1927).
Ref.: 00661CNG-CAFEE056-D
https://t.co/OpxmTbu96F
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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Newly digitised photos give a glimpse of #Fermoy 100 years ago

@TheAvondhu
Thurs 16 June 2022

Over 100 social history photographs of Fermoy and surrounding areas in County Cork have been published this week on the @BreslinArchive

Shared via @PressReader https://t.co/9vjsAcNXyq

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...on the map: https://t.co/z3WvZ9SZlc

...via Street View modern day: https://t.co/7IRyUhPp7Z

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Welcome to the National Army, Fermoy: A large crowd gathers in front of the Royal Hotel to hear from soldiers and dignitaries on the hotel balcony.

August 1922
Pearse Square, Fermoy

Photographer: Unknown
Ref.: 00353CNG-CAFEB033-D
https://t.co/iQYKSlz0V2
License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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@SeanOKeeffe11 @FermoyForum @MauriceGubbins @ghostsignscork @FermoyRFC @FermoyArts @GerardHarrisart @Cork1914to1924 @Harkin__ @Fiona_Forde_Irl Read my latest: “Visit Fermoy 100 years ago via newly digitised photos in the Breslin Archive” https://t.co/CoDwQtA9uB

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We are currently putting together info for our photos of the Fermoy Barracks, taken in August 1922 after they were burned

These three images are of the West (New) Barracks - the first is of a building in the SE corner, the second is the main barracks, and the third the SW corner

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Read my latest: “Visit Fermoy 100 years ago via newly digitised photos in the Breslin Archive” https://t.co/CoDwQtA9uB

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This week, we have uploaded 68 new images to our archive, taken between September 1921 and June 1922, mostly Fermoy and Cork

We will share more details later, for now, you can view them at:

https://t.co/OeO1wc6VjF (decreasing date)

and https://t.co/MhBuGcUeon (increasing date)

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You can also view this map from ArcGIS (choose the Historic 25" layer) which shows the above buildings as they were before 1913: https://t.co/9GVX6w01jg

cc @garrisontowns

© 2022 the Breslin Archive https://t.co/PMlM1gyjRO

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Compare the above burned buildings with this earlier photo by Robert French of the south buildings: https://t.co/ipEUByFdCR
See also these earlier Robert French photos in the NLI of the main barracks: https://t.co/vIvJZ9Ns4e and https://t.co/ADN00HQQfj

cc @CorkHTA @donal_okeeffe

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#100yearsago
Castle Hyde from River Fermoy
1922-06-01, River (Munster) Blackwater, County Cork https://t.co/LS4UBKKgYJ
Photographer: Unknown
Source: the Breslin Archive
Ref.: 00302CNG-CAFEA081-D
Link: https://t.co/GyMoK8JO5U
License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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#100yearsago

Two women and a man rowing a boat in front of Castlehyde House, ancestral home of Irish president Douglas Hyde, later owned by @MichaelFlatley

June 1922

River (Munster) Blackwater, County Cork https://t.co/DDaI610Z9a

Link: https://t.co/I70capuJ0L

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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This week, we have uploaded 68 new images to our archive, taken between September 1921 and June 1922, mostly Fermoy and Cork

We will share more details later, for now, you can view them at:

https://t.co/OeO1wc6VjF (decreasing date)

and https://t.co/MhBuGcUeon (increasing date)