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Tue, 10 Sep 2024 10:23:00 +0000

Treasures of the O’Gorman Special Collection : William Butler Yeats

Treasures of the O’Gorman Special Collection Blog SeriesWilliam Butler Yeats  A literary collection owned by the late entrepreneur, local historian and supporter of the arts, Ronnie O’Gorman, was recently donated to the University of Galway. This collection, spanning three generations of the O’Gorman family, includes countless items of literary and historic value. Poems

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Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:57:00 +0000

Advancing Ireland's Open Repository Landscape : A Webinar on Project Findings and Where We Go From Here

 On 30 June 2024, the National Open Access Repository Project hosted a webinar, gathering key stakeholders, experts, and community members to discuss one of Ireland’s most important initiatives for enhancing open access to research. Funded by the National Open Research Forum (NORF), this project aims to align the island of Ireland’s fragmented repository landscape into a standardised

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Fri, 02 Aug 2024 17:04:00 +0000

#AnGaodhal: Training the First Irish-English Bilingual OCR Model

This blog post introduces two new publicly available Optical Character Recognition (OCR) models for the Irish language and the core dataset on which they were trained — the first bilingual Irish-English newspaper, An Gaodhal, produced monthly from 1881 to 1898 by an Irishman living in Brooklyn, New York, and available in the University of Galway Library. The title page of An Gaodhal (Vol. 4,

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