The 1916 Easter Rising

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The RTÉ Radio 1 program “Documentary One” has two podcasts relating to the 1916 Easter Rising.

“The Week to Come” is the story of the 1916 Easter Rising as told by those who took part. The documentary is made from archive recordings. The archive recordings were made by Proinsias Mac Aonghusa in the 1960s and first broadcast in 1966 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Rising. The documentary was first broadcast in 2006.

In “The 1916 Room with Garrett Fitzgerald” four people are gathered to discuss how the 1916 Easter Rising affected them and where they were in 1966 during the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising. The guests are Garrett Fitzgerald – his father was in the General Post Office during the Rising, Tommy McKearney – whose family were active in the IRB and were still active in the IRA, Richard English – author of “Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA” and Eilean Ni Chuilleanain – her family were involved in the events of 1922 and she grew up hearing the stories of 1916.

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Ruth’s Recommendations

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Here are my favourite blog posts from this past week.

Audrey Collins of The Family Recorder blog had a post called “Doin’ the archive two-step” where she looks at why records were created and how indexes might have been created by the person who used the documents on a daily basis. She discusses one of her favourite record series, the Death Duty Registers, and how their indexes work.

Marian’s Roots & Rambles had a piece this week called “Have You Ever Considered an Intentional Diary?” I think this is a great idea. Writing a daily entry that you intend others to read and self edit as you write.

Pue’s Occurrences The Irish History Blog had an interesting post called “The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce”. Lisa Marie Griffith writes about a television program that she watched this weekend called “The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce”. It was an Australian/Irish production and it sounds pretty gruesome. Alexander Pearce was an Irish convict sent to Australia. He turned to cannibalism and was executed in 1824.

Are there any postings in the last week that you think need to be on this list? Let me know in the comments below.

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Historic Maps of Nova Scotia – A Must See!

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Historic Maps of Nova Scotia is a website run by the Government of Nova Scotia and it is a work in progress.

You can find an Outline Map of Nova Scotia which identifies and explains the eighteen counties and their boundaries; Woolford’s Surveys: The Roads from Halifax to Windsor and Truro, 1817-1818; Google map of Nova Scotia and fifty five individual maps that relate to many areas of Nova Scotia.

The individual maps range from 1613 to 1995. When you click on the image of the map you get a larger version that you can navigate and investigate further. Descriptions of the map or any place notations are noted below the map.

The Outline Map shows the eighteen counties and also provides information on their shire town, when they were created and what they were created from such as other counties. There are a few footnotes to this section that provides further explanation.

Woolford’s survey is 18 sheets of maps and there is a history of the origins of the survey.

There is an extra bonus of a link to Atlantic Neptune Charts which is a four volume atlas of sea charts that were published during the American Revolutionary War. There are 181 digitized images to search. This is found on the National Maritime Museum website and you have the option of purchasing copies of the images.

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