{"id":7036,"date":"2024-09-25T21:59:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T20:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/?p=7036"},"modified":"2025-10-29T19:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:42:07","slug":"oral-history-collections-in-kildare-local-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/oral-history-collections-in-kildare-local-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral History Collections In Kildare Local Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kildare Local Studies has a significant and varied collection of oral history recordings in various formats that have been collected and deposited over many years.<\/p>\n

Highlights include:<\/p>\n

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  1. William Kelly collection of recordings with individuals from the South Kildare area<\/li>\n
  2. Joe Dunne’s self-recorded tapes of life in Newbridge throughout the 20th Century<\/li>\n
  3. Irish Life & Lore series including the ‘Kildare collection’ commissioned by Kildare County Council. Kildare interviewees also feature prominently in the ‘Bord na M\u00f3na’ and ‘Horse-Racing Ireland collections’.<\/li>\n
  4. ‘Save Our Stories’ series of recordings of over sixty individuals throughout County Kildare undertaken in the 2010s.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There is a more detailed description, with links to catalogues of many of the collection available here<\/a><\/p>\n

    All of the above can be accessed in Kildare Local Studies by prior appointment. Further information is available by emailing localhistory@kildarecoco.ie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Kildare Local Studies has a significant and varied collection of oral history recordings in various formats that have been collected and deposited over many years. Highlights include: William Kelly collection of recordings with individuals from the South Kildare area Joe Dunne’s self-recorded tapes of life in Newbridge throughout the 20th Century Irish Life & Lore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,119,126,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","category-places","category-social-history","category-sport"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Irish-Life-and-Lore-Kildare-Collection-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Irish-Life-and-Lore-Kildare-Collection-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8163,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions\/8163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}