Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 21 November 2013
130. Deputy Marcella Corcoran Kennedy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the National Library of Ireland will make the James O'Dea railway photographic collection available on line; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49885/13]
View answerThe mission of the National Library of Ireland (NLI) is to make accessible to everyone the documentary and intellectual record of the life of Ireland. The NLI’s ongoing Digitisation Programme has made 55,000 digitised items available to date to people everywhere, via its online catalogue. As part of the programme, work has been ongoing for some time on the James O'Dea Railway Photographic Collection, which consists of over 5,000 photographs. I am advised that the full collection will be made available online at the end of Q1-2014. Currently, 66 sample images from the collection, which previously featured in an NLI exhibition, can be viewed via the online catalogue at www.catalogue.nli.ie.
