Donegal County Museum and the County Archives Service have launched a project to record and preserve the experiences and perspectives of both new communities and returned emigrants.
It’s envisaged the ‘Our Voices Together: Stories of Migration to and from Donegal’ project will document an important intercultural oral history which captures and celebrates the diverse migration experiences of communities throughout County Donegal.
The 16-month project will collaborate with local organisations and groups to engage new communities and returned Irish emigrants with the intention of gathering, preserving, and sharing their migration stories, with a view towards producing an exhibition and an archive.
Niamh Brennan is an archivist with Donegal County Council……………..
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‘Our Voices Together: Stories of Migration to and from Donegal’ is an intercultural oral history and heritage project aiming to capture and celebrate the diverse migration experiences of communities throughout County Donegal.
Led by community engagement organisation Workhouse Union, in partnership with Donegal County Council’s Museum and Archives Services, the 16-month project will collaborate with local organisations and groups to engage new communities and returned Irish emigrants. Together, they will gather, preserve, and share migration stories through arts-led creative engagement methods that explore traditional skills, intangible culture, and crafts as starting points for storytelling and cultural exchange. There will also be a schools engagement programme. The final phase will focus on creating a legacy through exhibition and archive development.
This project is supported by PEACEPLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU programmes Body (SEUPB).
