As you walk around Salthill and Galway city, you will have noticed the green ear shaped signs - featuring a telephone number - on various lampposts and telegraph poles.
These signs are a key part of [murmur]galway and they offer Galwegians and visitors to Galway a chance to get to know the city more intimately.
[murmur]galway is an innovative mobile phone-based audio storytelling pilot project. Anyone who calls the number on a green ear sign will be treated to a story and a history about the location or building the sign is in - and the call is free of charge.
Máire Holmes and Pauline Bermingham have been collecting the first batch of stories over the past few weeks and 22 of those stories are now available in 14 city locations through the [murmur] signs.
[murmur] uses mobile phones to share first-person narratives and location-specific stories that generally go unheard. The stories are in the storyteller’s own voice. They are personal and anecdotal in nature, and are naturally intertwined with history of that place.
[murmur] was an idea that originally developed in Canada. Now that is in Galway, it is being made possible through the support of Fáilte Ireland, the Galway City Council, and Gaillimh le Gaeilge.
More stories are being sought for the expansion of the project. Listeners will be encouraged to make their own stories available and Tomás Hardiman of Parzival Productions, producer of the project. Contact [murmur]galway by telephone 091 525915 or e-mail [email protected]
