About the Project
This two-week programme explores how the vulnerable were treated in the late 1800s and early 1900s and how to curate and create a sensitive exhibition about them.
The programme gives volunteers digital access to photographs and case books from the Asylum Hospital records (HOS) and takes them on a behind-the-scenes tour where PRONI staff demonstrates how these records have been digitised, preserved and can be made accessible to the public.
The volunteers are also taking part in a workshop to learn how to use digital technology and haiku poems as a sensitive way to bring mental health stories from the archives to life and are creating an exhibition for World Mental Health Day.
Following the engagement programme, they will be offered the opportunity to volunteer with PRONI in an indexing project to help enhance digital access to records related to the most vulnerable in our society.
Asylum Stories & Haikus
Hear from some of the volunteers about what it was like to follow someone's journey through the archives and to use haikus to bring forward these forgotten stories.
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Volunteers
Heather Cardwell
Alison Walsh
Stephanie Carruthers
John Robinson
Jane Robinson
Joy Entwistle
Julie McGrath
Geraldine McCrossan
Shaun Hickland
Melissa Johnston
Ciara Barkley
Joanne Glasgow
Liz Cullinane