A Snapshot of Corca Dhuibhne, a new online archive of photographs from the community of Corca Dhuibhne over the last 100 years, is now available to everyone. Ruth Uí Ógáin from CFCD, and a past student of the Department of Digital Humanities UCC, came up with the idea to collect and catalogue the photos and is currently working on the ongoing project.

This project, Blaiseadh de Chorca Dhuibhne, was undertaken by Comharchumann Forbartha Chorca Dhuibhne (CFCD) and received funding from the Heritage Council’s Community Grant Scheme. To date, over 400 photographs have been contributed to the archive by the public and around half of these have now been scanned, uploaded and catalogued with the relevant searchable metadata. This is an ongoing project and CFCD hope to continue adding to the collection in the future. CFCD also hope that the public, especially the people of Corca Dhuibhne, can assist if they have further information regarding any of the photographs and each photo has the facility to submit corrections and suggestions. This project is of particular importance and has two main functions. Firstly, it has allowed the public to loan their personal photographs for scanning and archiving, thus ensuring that there will be a permanent record of their own personal treasures and memories. Secondly, these important visual artefacts, which reflect the social history of the peninsula over the past century, have now been archived and made available to researchers, historians, anthropologists or anyone interested in them. CFCD would like to thank all those who supported this important initiative and especially the generous community of Corca Dhuibhne.