Did Your Mother Come from Ireland?

Or your grandfather or your great grandparents? If so, you should check out the National Library of Ireland, the newest member of the Flickr Commons. They have an interesting collection of photographs and will be adding more.

The Flickr Commons is a program that encourages museums, archives and libraries to share collections of historical images on Flickr where the active community of members can not only enjoy them, but add comments, notes and tags to help make them more searchable. Flickr members often identify people, places and events, and add other interesting information about the images.

You might recognize a photograph of a relative here, pr a photograph of the town where your great grandfather was born. Even if you don’t find anything that relates so directly to your own relatives, it’s interesting to look through these photographs just to see the faces, the clothes, the toys and tools and houses and landscapes.

Links

• National Library of Ireland — Flickr Commons
• National Library of Ireland — Website
• Commenting the Commons — My 2009 post about the Flickr Commons

Music

Just in case the title of this post made you want to hear the song, here’s the late, great Gracie Fields (1898–1979) :