Moving images of events that shook society to core

We’ve never been closer to the past. The continuing proliferation of online searchable material is making available to us all an ocean of information and artefacts from our past. 

Facsimiles of documents and pictures, as well as clips of audio and film, are there at the fingertips of professional historians and enthusiasts alike. A format which could only have dreamed of.

Cork City Library and The National Library of Ireland, among others, have put a host of guide books, street directories and other documents plus photographs online in recent years making it simple for us to search our past. And a number of big projects have caught the public’s imagination, such as the census returns of 1901 and 1911, digitised and put online by the National Archives.