Irish Oral History Archive

The Irish Oral History Archive needs your help to extend its collecting work to include the rest of Britain. During the coming twelve months the Archive hopes to recruit and train up to thirty volunteer field collectors. We are looking for people with an interest in Irish culture and with an affinity for the older members of our community. You do not need any prior experience in this type of work. The Archive will provide all the necessary training. The most valuable thing you can bring to the project is your time, local knowledge of the Irish community and enthusiasm.

We will provide professional interview training, technical training on all the necessary interview equipment as well as providing you with the recording and photographic equipment you will need to carry out the interviews. In certain cases the Archive will help you establish a local Archive for your own community.

So if you know of an elderly Irish neighbour, friend or associate; if it’s your mother or father, or grandparents that emigrated here before the 1960s, then this project is for you. This is you chance to make a significant contribution to the story of the Irish in Britain, something that will go down in history as one of the most important projects in the history of Irish people worldwide.

Read more about the project here.

To get involved please contact the Irish Oral History Archive here: EMAIL THE ARCHIVE