As part of background research for my dissertation, I am trying to collate a list of Irish archives/museums and community/individual history projects that have an active Facebook page and post historical material. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far.
Do you know of anymore?
Cultural/Social:
Dublin Dockers – Amazing selection of scanned images. Post regularly.
Irish Queer Archive – Excellent quality of scans and descriptions of items. Posts every few days.
Irish Photo Archive – Amazing selection of images. Updated at least once a day.
Irish Traditional Music Archive – Mainly contemporary posts. Some historical images.
Where Were You? – Series of photos posted in batches every other week. Lots of personal comments and memories.
![Gay Health Action (GHA) 60's Night Benefit Disco. Flyer, designer unattributed. 1985 [Ephemera Collection, IQA/NLI]](https://comeheretome.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/902593_495988767121212_24289184_o.jpg)
Gay Health Action (GHA) Benefit Disco at Sides DC. Flyer, designer unattributed. 1985 [Ephemera Collection, IQA/NLI]
Established:
Irish Architectural Archive – Post regularly but not much historical stuff.
County Archives
– Clare – Updated quite a bit. Interesting conservation photos.
– Cork – Very irregular posts. Some historical material.
– Donegal -Updated quite regularly. Mainly historical items.
– Waterford – Updated quite regularly. Some historical material.
Glasnevin Museum – Great mixture of posts about contemporary issues (tour guides etc.) and historical bits and pieces.
National Library of Ireland – Excellently run page. Updated regularly.
Political:
Irish Anarchist History Archive – Irregular posts of scanned up documents or photos.
Irish Student Movement Research Project – Nice mixture of scans and short text posts.
Official Republican/WP Archive – Diverse selection of photos and newspaper clippings. Some scans not of high quality.
Students outside Dail Eireann highlighting the Stardust (Artane, 1981) and the Central Hotel (Bundoran, 1980) fire disasters. Credit – Irish Student Movement Research Project.
Religious:
Capuchin Archive – Post fantastic historical documents every other day.
Sport:
Dublin Maccabi (Jewish sporting club) – All historical photos and documents. Lots of personal comments and memories.
Jackie Jameson Irish Football Legend (Bohs) – Mainly historical photos being posted.
Dalymount Park in 1952. Credit – Jackie Jameson Irish Football Legend
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Come Here To Me! 
https://www.facebook.com/braydidyouknow
Irish History Podcast.ie posts regularly.
The RTEHistoryShow on twitter always post great links!
There’s also The Women’s Museum of Ireland (see https://www.facebook.com/WomensMuseumOfIreland?fref=ts) – it was only launched in March of this year.
Check out Turtle Bunbury and Marsh’s Library.
And the Dublin Dockworkers Preservation Society.
i’ve only just noticed this now (2 June 2013) after it was posted recently on CHTM. That’s me on the right holding the banner, Bolton St CoT SU Deputy President (SU President Brendan Doris is holding the banner on the left; the following year he was elected President of USI). The beautifully hand-written posters are all my own work! This protest was organised spontaneously after the horror of the Stardust fire. We felt that as a students’ union we had a wider responsibility for youth generally, who were the victims in this case. Amazingly some reactionary elements within our own union objected saying we were ‘exploiting a tragedy for political ends’, etc. I’ve been on many protests in my time but I can say this is one that I have never regretted. The scandal is that 32 years later the victims still haven’t had redress. Tommy Graham
How did you miss us !!?? We have over 14,000 very active members. Post historical information three times a day and music on Sundays.
Our mission is to spread the truth of our ancestors. The loss of one crop does not constitute a famine. The loss of life constitutes a holocaust/genocide.
On FB: Irish Holocaust – Push to Educate the Facts
https://www.facebook.com/No.Famine
Mary Lou McKeone