Dinny McGinley, Minister of State for the Gaeltacht, has launched a new Irish-language biographies website, www.ainm.ie at the end of the year at the National Library on Kildare Street, Dublin. Each of the featured 1,693 lives has made a unique contribution to the Irish language over the last five centuries. Forty-seven biographies featured are from people from Mayo.
This work is a valuable research tool comprising almost 1,700 biographies from 1560 to the present day. The objective of the project is to provide easy access to this knowledge base, which contains 1.3 million words, through the digitisation of the original material and its publication online. The enhanced search and browsing features allow users to explore this resource in innovative ways.
