Interesting crowd sourced project

Socializing and general posts on wide-ranging topics. Remember, it's Poststructural!
Post Reply
PB+J
Posts: 1306
Joined: Sun Mar 25, 2018 5:40 am
antispam: No
Please enter the next number in sequence: 8
Tell us something.: I'm a historian and the author of "The Beat Cop:Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music," published by the University of Chicago in 2022. I live in Arlington VA and play the flute sincerely but not well

Interesting crowd sourced project

Post by PB+J »

Scott Spencer of USC has put together a project with the ITMA and the Ward Irish MNusic Archives to collect the dedication pages from Books Francis O'Neill sent out. The announcement and links below

Help us build a crowdsourced Capt. Francis O’Neill online display-
We are looking for quality scans of signed copies of O’Neill books

Project details: With the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin and the Ward Irish Music Archives in Milwaukee, we are looking for scans of O’Neill dedication pages signed by the author for an online display contextualizing O’Neill’s projects and publications on Irish traditional music in the larger Irish experience. This includes placing O’Neill, through his gifts of books and florid dedication pages, at the heart of the Irish Diaspora and its associated political and social movements at the turn of the century; before the 1916 Easter Rising; and through the 1921 creation of the Free State.

Do you have a signed O’Neill book? If so, we would love to include a scan of the dedication page, as well as your story. Please help us with this project by clicking on links to ITMA or the Ward Irish Archives for full information, or by uploading information and images to this online form. If you have questions, please send an email to Scott Spencer at scottspe@usc.edu, and please assist this project by spreading the word.
We will launch the resulting crowdsourced online display June 2021, as part of an international conference organized in Paris by the Universities of Chicago, Caen Normandy and Paris - Chicago as an Irish-American Metropolis.

You can find the project and the form for submissions at the links below
https://www.itma.ie/latest/news/oneill-dedication-pages
https://wardirishmusicarchives.com/Ward ... -Pages.htm
Post Reply