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Farmers are among those who feature in Imirce, a new digital repository that provides access to thousands of Irish-American emigrant...

The Imirce database provides access an extraordinary collection of Irish emigrant letters and memoirs sent from North America.

AN ONLINE archive comprising thousands of letters sent from North America by Irish emigrants has been launched by the University of Galway. The Imirce project includes around 7,000 letters, running to more than 150,000 documents, along with other important historical papers, with some dating back to the late 1600s. Launched on Friday, the archive was

The mid-19th century was an era of little movement of people for social or pleasure purposes. In the post-Famine era, it was only business people of necessity, those who were emigrating or those whose financial circumstances allowed who travelled. Railway travel had come Galway in 1851 and there were a few horse drawn omnibuses operating between the city and the village of Salthill, which was really a rural backwater. But, it was becoming a fashionable place to live and was developing as a tourist destination. It was therefore no surprise when a tramway system between the city and the village ...

The project aims to promote health and well-being amongst residents of The Aran Islands (Inis Meáin, Inis Mór and Inis Oírr) and Inisbofin