“Loreto 1916” - A New Online Exhibition & Digital Collection

We are delighted to announce the availability of a new collection in UCD Digital Library, with a complementary Google Arts and Culture exhibit, both based on items selected from the IBVM (Loreto) Institute and Irish Province Archives.

The material showcases the experiences of the Loreto Sisters and pupils during Easter Rising 1916. Excerpts from the digitised Loreto Convent Annals and other records offer unique eye witness accounts of the Rising in St Stephen’s Green, and detailed personal accounts of the experiences of the Rising in Rathfarnham.

It offers audiences a new opportunity to learn about the lives of Loreto Sisters 100 years ago and their unswerving dedication to their missions and ministries. We hope this new exhibition and digital collection will highlight the vast wealth of information that is preserved in the archives of religious orders. View the 1916 materials in UCD Digital Library at http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:45795.

The digital collection forms part of the new Convent Collection, to which further material will be added in the future.

View the Google Arts and Culture exhibit at https://goo.gl/gvZxzt.

This digitisation project has been undertaken by the UCD Digital Library, funded by the Irish Research Council, and directed by Associate Professor Deirdre Raftery, UCD School of Education, with the cooperation of IBVM (Loreto) Irish Province Archives.

All queries can be directed to:

IBVM (Loreto) Irish Province Archives: + 353 (0) 1 662 0158 or archives@loreto.ie

UCD Digital Library: +353 (0)1 716 7506/7356 or digital.library@ucd.ie

Deirdre Raftery, Associate Professor of Education, UCD: deirdre.raftery@ucd.ie.