Seven for a Story

Taking 80 year old archival material as it starting point, this project was developed during the CuratorLab research programme. Instead of stories with beginnings, middles and ends, the archive tells tales that are layered, fragmented, incomplete and infinite, existing and surrounding everyday life, still silently embedded in geography. In the archives, names of people today only known as elders, can be reencountered through their writings as schoolchildren. This project used archival material to trace the evolution of the townland’s landscape, scraping away and excavating layers of history, migration, industry, personal and collective memories, local folk knowledge and superstition, which through rapid modernisation, indifference and sometimes embarrassment has been lost.