Staff
Glenn Cumiskey, Director, Irish Oral History Archive.
Glenn has worked since the early 1990's in the archiving community. He served as a field collector, digitisation officer, and staff member for the Irish Oral History Archive, Dublin since 1992. During this time he had the oppportunity to work and train alongside key personnel in many national and international archiving bodies including RTÉ, The British Library, and The National Sound Archive, Britain. He has lectured on traditional Irish music throughout Ireland and is currently pioneering an oral history field collection project of the Irish diaspora.
Mary McColgan, Secretary, Irish Oral History Archive.
Mary has extensive experience working in administration. She has worked as the communications manager for The Nutrition Society, London.
A number of individividuals act in an advisory role. They include:
Harry Bradshaw, Senior Producer RTÉ, Digitisation and Sound Archiving advisor.
Harry Bradshaw, radio producer, record producer and sound engineer, and writer and lecturer on Irish traditional music, is Ireland’s leading expert in the remastering of archival recordings. Harry worked in Eamonn Andews Studios before joining RTÉ as a sound engineer in 1968 and becoming a radio producer there in in 1979. He specialised in traditional music programmes and was the producer for seventeen years of the RTÉ Radio 1 flagship series The Long Note.
Maeve Gebruers, Printed Materials Officer ITMA, Catalogues, Print and Image Archiving advisor.
Maeve has extensive experience in both the cataloguing of and physical management of library artefacts. More recently she has dealth with the substantial challenges that digital images present in the environment of print based archives.
The Archive has also benefited from the active involvement in its work of many other individuals and organisations throughout Ireland and Britain. It would especially like to thank the following individual who were instrumental in supporting the Archive in its initial development:
Nicholas Carolan, Director, Irish Traditional Music Archive
Nicholas is the co-founder and Director of the Irish Traditional Music Archive; lecturer and writer on Irish Traditional Music; presenter of The Irish Phonograph radio series and Come West Along the Road, RTÉ television series; secretary of the Folk Music Society of Ireland; and a lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin.
Cathal Goan, Director General, RTÉ.
Cathal is a native of Belfast and a graduate of University College Dublin. Cathal joined RTÉ in 1979, initially working with RTÉ Radio as a Producer and Senior Producer before moving to RTÉ TV in 1988. Having worked in Current Affairs and as Editor of Cúrsaí, the Irish language current affairs and arts programme Cathal was, in 1990, appointed Editor, Irish Language Programming. Cathal was appointed Ceannasaí of Teilifís na Gaeilge in August 1994 and oversaw the establishment of the channel, Ireland's third national television service. He was appointed Director of RTÉ Television and a member of the RTÉ Executive Board in March 2000.
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Volunteers:
The Archive also benefits from the voluntary assistance of a number of individuals who assist in the growth of the collection through their field collecting activities. They include:
Michael O'Brien, Wigan; Ann O'Loughlin Murray, Maidenhead; Thomas Veale, Peterborough; Marc McNamara, Derby as well as the following:
Richard Brown, Oxford
Maria Gallagher, Birmingham
Anne-Marie Hayes, Birmingham
Sarah Hayes, Birmingham
Terri Lynk, Birmingham
John McDermott, Leeds