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We are what we remember. Everyone is made up of what we have experienced, what we recall of it and what we choose to forget.
The choosing is often the critical part. What we edit out of our lives is as much a marker as what we decide to bring with us.
National memory is much the same and the modern State plays a huge part in shaping that conversation. The first generation of the newly independent Ireland, like the founding fathers in new nation states everywhere, were very conscious of how this could be achieved.
Ireland’s history might have been complex and multi-layered but the story we would be told was a simple and straightforward one.
North West Correspondent
It appears with low tide and shifting sands - the skeletal remains of a shipwreck on Streedagh beach in Co Sligo.
Known locally as the Butter Boat, various tales have been told of its origins but the true identity of the wreck has only just been confirmed thanks to detailed research led by the National Monuments Service.
For at least twenty years some of the NMS underwater archaeologists have been investigating the famous Spanish Armada wrecks which lie off Streedagh and they were intrigued by the bones of the boat peeking out of the sand at low tide and the local folklore surrounding it.
Why we turned Ireland s black and white past into colour
Updated / Friday, 30 Oct 2020
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All aboard: passengers on a mail car near Black s Royal Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway circa 1880. From Old Ireland In Colour (Merrion Press)
The Old Ireland in Colour project began in 2019 as an Instagram account when John Breslin, a professor from NUI Galway, developed an interest in historic photo colourisation, enhancement, and restoration. He began working with DeOldify a programme that had been developed by Jason Antic and later
Dana Kelley. In early 2020, Sarah-Anne Buckley, a lecturer in History in NUI Galway, joined John to create what is now the