Living Linen Oral History Dataset

The Living Linen Project was set up in 1995 as an oral archive of the knowledge of the Irish linen industry still available within a nucleus of people who were formerly working in the industry in Ulster. The Oral History collection includes tape recordings and transcripts of interviews with both owners and workers employed in the linen industry across the province. They comment on working conditions and practises within the local mills, the processes and activities involved in production, management styles, the changing fortunes and development of the industry throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries and its importance to the local economy, etc.

The dataset uploaded on Box consists of:

• 20 digitized audio recordings (mp3 files) and related transcripts in a Word format
• a csv export with the metadata for the 391 interviews

The project has a dedicated Wikipedia page which describes the origins and the different phases of the project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Linen