DISCOVERING ISLAND STORIES & HERITAGE

Our team and island partners use a variety of methods to investigate island heritage, including archaeology, ethnography, oral history, archival research, and documentary filmmaking.

Excavating inside a medieval at Inishark's medieval shrine of Clochan Leo

Archaeology (Image © CLIC)

Ryan Lash shearing a sheep on Inishbofin as part of his ethnographic research

Ethnography (Image © CLIC)

Archival document listing the boat crewmen in 1912 for the fishing boat St Leo in Inishbofin (image courtesy of National Archives of Ireland)

Archival Research (Image © National Archives of Ireland)

Ryan Lash recording oral histories with Tommy Burke of Fawnmore village in Inishbofin

Oral History (Image © CLIC)

Filming oral history interviews with Tommy Burke in a Fawnmore house, Inishbofin

Documentary Filmmaking (Image © CLIC)