UCC has digitised and published an important archive of Irish traditional music contained on wax cylinders, which languished unheard in its basement for almost 100 years. The problem with wax cylinders is that they are damaged each time you play them, so that for the archive to be preserved it could not be played. But an audio engineer named Henri Chamoux […]
The British Pathé Archive, an extraordinary visual record of the 20th century, is now available in its entirety on YouTube. Spanning the period 1896 to 1976, the collection totals 85,000 films which were produced as short news programmes to be shown in cinemas. The collection includes coverage of major historical events, as well as sport, fashion, culture, travel and […]
