October 2, 2023

Business Post (Ireland): Google workers protest over ‘unequal’ treatment in lay-offs

Business Post (Ireland): Google workers protest over ‘unequal’ treatment in lay-offs. “Close to 200 staff at the tech giant have signed their names to a petition that says the severance deals it is offering to around 20 recruiters impacted by ongoing lay-offs are worse than a previous round of job cuts earlier this year. The petition, submitted to management at the company on Friday, calls on Google to offer staff impacted by current and future layoffs ‘equal severance compensation’ to what was paid out during lay-offs in March.”

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September 28, 2023

Irish Times: TikTok discovers ‘covert influence operation’ targeting Ireland

Irish Times: TikTok discovers ‘covert influence operation’ targeting Ireland. “Video-sharing service TikTok dismantled a ‘covert influence operation’ network dedicated to targeting users in Ireland with ‘divisive’ content to “intensify social conflict”, the company has disclosed. The influence network was made up of 72 accounts that together had a following of some 94,743 users, and was shut down earlier this year.”

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September 18, 2023

Boing Boing: Shrinkflation database tracks diminishing size of food products

Boing Boing: Shrinkflation database tracks diminishing size of food products. “The Shrinkflation Tracker, by Sam Lader, is on a mission to stop manufacturers quietly putting less food inside product packaging without a corresponding fall in price to consumers. The practice is out of control, so much so that even major retailers are beginning to warn customers against lest they suspect complicity in the practice.” The listings are UK and Ireland-focused at the moment.

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September 17, 2023

TechCrunch: TikTok fined $379M in EU for failing to keep kids’ data safe

TechCrunch: TikTok fined $379M in EU for failing to keep kids’ data safe. “It’s been a long time coming but TikTok has finally been found in breach of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in relation to its handling of children’s data. Under the decision issued today by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), the video sharing platform has been reprimanded and fined €345 million (~$379 million). It has also been ordered to bring its offending data processing into compliance within three months.”

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September 1, 2023

Maynooth University: Unveiling the MACMORRIS Project

Maynooth University: Unveiling the MACMORRIS Project. “MACMORRIS is an acronym for Mapping Actors and Communities: Modelling Research in Renaissance Ireland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century. It is a radically new digital-humanities project, which, for the very first time, maps the full range and richness of cultural activity in a time of change, conflict and, ultimately, transformation.”

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August 28, 2023

Karlin Lillington: Technology helps piece together archive lost in 1922 Four Courts fire (Irish Times)

Irish Times: Karlin Lillington: Technology helps piece together archive lost in 1922 Four Courts fire. “This is an absorbing tale of imagination, diligence, chance discoveries and fruitful relationships with other national archives, many in the UK which hold copies of records here, and myriad small partners such as Killruddery, with its 400 years of documents including land records and correspondence.”

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August 11, 2023

Irish Central: 17th-century records of those who settled in Ulster now available online

Irish Central: 17th-century records of those who settled in Ulster now available online. “A valuable biographical and historical digital resource, the database makes innovative use of historical data relating to the English and Scottish men and women who settled in Ulster in the period between 1609 and 1641 along with the Gaelic Irish inhabitants who they interacted with.”

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July 19, 2023

GCN: New digital exhibition celebrates LGBTQ+ families in Ireland

GCN: New digital exhibition celebrates LGBTQ+ families in Ireland. “On Friday, July 14, the National Museum of Ireland, in collaboration with RIFNET (Reconstituting the Irish Family Network) unveiled a new digital exhibition entitled ReCollecting the Irish Family. The exhibition consists of items donated from five LGBTQ+ families throughout Ireland. Interviews with the families accompany the pieces, challenging the listener to examine their notions of what ‘the Irish family’ truly means.”

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July 16, 2023

Share Family: British National Bibliography (Beta) service is live (British Library Digital Scholarship Blog)

British Library Digital Scholarship Blog: Share Family: British National Bibliography (Beta) service is live. “The British National Bibliography (BNB), first published in January 1950, is a weekly listing of new books and journals published or distributed in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland…. BNB is now available to explore in Beta: https://bl.natbib-lod.org. You can search for publications, original works and people.”

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July 10, 2023

Irish News: Genealogy enthusiasts gifted new index of more than three million searchable names

Irish News: Genealogy enthusiasts gifted new index of more than three million searchable names. “GENEALOGY enthusiasts have been gifted a new index containing more than three million searchable names, to mark the centenary of the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI). Around 3.2 million name indexes, relating to valuation records for the period 1864 to 1933, are now free to access as a result of a partnership between PRONI and well-known genealogy platform Ancestry.”

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June 20, 2023

Team GCN: GCN unveils free Digital Archive giving access to first 10 years of Ireland’s national LGBTQ+ press

Team GCN: GCN unveils free Digital Archive giving access to first 10 years of Ireland’s national LGBTQ+ press. “As the nation’s queer paper of record, for the past 35 years, GCN has documented the lives of LGBTQ+ people in Ireland. Until now, the early days of the magazine have been unavailable to the public due to their existence in print form only; the delicate newspapers stored carefully away. Today, June 19, celebrating the start of Dublin Pride week, GCN launches an online archive of its first 10 years, making our community’s history accessible to the public for the very first time.”

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June 10, 2023

IrishCentral: Genealogists treasure trove! More Irish community archives to go online

IrishCentral: Genealogists treasure trove! More Irish community archives to go online. “The Heritage Council joins the National Museum of Ireland and participating local authorities in funding the digitization of Ireland’s community archives, through the Irish Community Archive Network (iCAN). More than 30 digital community archives created to date – and 80 to be supported by 2028.”

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June 4, 2023

Independent (Ireland): ‘I spent lockdown copying old land records onto a spreadsheet to help other families trace their history’

Independent (Ireland): ‘I spent lockdown copying old land records onto a spreadsheet to help other families trace their history’. “Kathy Roughan spent much of the Covid lockdown copying local land ownership records, known as ‘cancelled books’, from Clarecastle, which date as far back to the to the 19th century. Ms Roughan physically copied thousands of entries into a spreadsheet, which then became part of the permanent digital archive for the Clarecastle Ballyea Heritage archive. Thanks to her efforts, others can now trace the record of their properties and home in the locality online.”

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May 24, 2023

Independent (Ireland): Interview with Maud Gonne among thousands of early recordings added to RTÉ’s online archive

Independent (Ireland): Interview with Maud Gonne among thousands of early recordings added to RTÉ’s online archive. “An interview with Maud Gonne MacBride is among thousands of early radio recordings that have been added to RTÉ’s online archive. The collection – available at RTÉ Archives | Acetate Disc Collection – includes over 5,300 recordings made between 1927 and the 1970s. The collection gives a rare insight into the voices, sounds, topics and processes involved in the creation of early radio broadcasting.”

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