The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is delighted to announce that the Doegen Records Web Project collection is now available on the Repository.
The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is delighted to announce that the Doegen Records Web Project collection is now available on the Repository.
The Doegen Records Web Project collection deposited by the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) consists of sound recordings usually known as the Doegen Records made between 1928 and 1931 as part of a systematic Irish dialect survey. Anita Cooper, Assistant Librarian at the RIA, explains the recordings include ‘Irish speakers from seventeen counties in three provinces and preserve local Irish dialects from regions where Irish is no longer the first language of the people’. The collection is important because ‘many of those local dialects are now extinct, which makes these recordings particularly significant for Irish dialectology’.
The recordings include material that would be of interest to a wide range of researchers and scholars and includes ‘folktales, songs and prayers, along with miscellaneous items of Irish vocabulary such as the numbers from 1 to 30 and the days of the week’. In making these recordings openly accessible in DRI the RIA Library ‘aims to bring this valuable part of Ireland’s cultural heritage to as wide an audience as possible expecting them to benefit linguists, folklorists, historians, educators, musicologists, genealogists, local communities and the general public’.
Explore the collection here: https://doi.org/10.7486/DRI.s752m148j
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