Ireland Life-Writing

This paper reports on the Ireland Life-Writing project which was conducted as part of the UCD Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) series of demonstrator research projects. The project focused on the material that had been collected by an earlier and still ongoing project, the Ireland Life-Writing Archive, which is administered by the UCD School of English, Drama and Film. The scope of the IVRLA phase of the Ireland Life-Writing project was to take the material submitted to date to the Ireland Life-Writing Archive (which had not been fully catalogued due to shortages in funding), complete the cataloguing of it and make a list of these submissions available through the IVRLA. This paper gives an overview of the project context, procedures followed, the final output, and reports on the material collected and digitised, and concludes by suggesting ways in which this research could be further developed.