When our library was rebuilt in 2000, it opened with a new special collection of books and artwork concerning the Great Famine. A year later, I began digitizing some of the titles and publishing them on the web - you can see our work at www.thegreathunger.org. This helped to rekindle the love of Ireland that I developed in 1976 when first travelled there. In the Spring of 2003, I had the privilege of going to Ireland on an internal grant to investigate the state of digitization of historic materials in that country. I have several pages of images I captured using the library's digital camera -
An RSS feed to my Picasa gallery of Irish photographs For those who want more than just pictures, my trip report is at http://faculty.quinnipiac.edu/libraries/tballard/report/footsteps.html
In addition, I've developed a series of web page Backgrounds and Bars around these images - free for anyone who wants to use them.
In the Fall of 2004, I was sent for a followup visit to install scanning at the Kerry County Library. A full report is now available at faculty.quinnipiac.edu/libraries/tballard/footsteps2.html .
During our brief visit we were given the opportunity to get closeups of the Workhouse ruin at Cahirciveen, and combine our pictures with interior shots done years earlier by my colleague Bob Smart.
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