Michael J. Murphy: A visit to the archive

Presented by Kim Moylan

We hear from PRONI’s Sean Hayes, who was tasked with archiving a massive amount of Micahel J Murphy’s work. As well as getting to browse through some of the archive in the reading room at PRONI, the podcasters learn what was in the 60 boxes of papers and how the archivists began to build a parasocial relationship with their subject during the course of cataloguing Michael J. Murphy’s work.

Thanks to our guests

Grace Gordon, Sean Hayes, Kevin Murphy and Una Walsh, and actor Mary Lindsay

Thanks to our podcasters

Scotta, Archie, Lois, Kirsty, Jen, Kim and Fiona.

This podcast was produced by Nerve Centre in partnership with the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland for the Now We're Talking project. The project was made possible through a grant from Archives Revealed, a partnership programme between The National Archives, the Pilgrim Trust, the Wolfson Foundation and The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Additional thanks to Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive and BBC Northern Ireland for archive content.

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