Can we let technology reshape our past?

Some years ago, the newspaper industry came together to digitalise archives of printed newspapers. Millions of pages, tens of millions of stories, reaching back to 1738, all adding up to the first draft of Irish history, were centralised in a way that secures the data and assures public access.

This is an invaluable resource for those who wish to try to reach an unfiltered understanding of how Ireland came to be Ireland. In our post-truth age, it is an exemplary model of truth-preserving and one, sadly and very dangerously, impossible to repeat today.