Join St Cormac’s Heritage Society for our unique ‘Echoes of Our Past’ webinar which features our work in building an online cultural heritage exhibition, celebrating the forgotten or lost voices of the North Mayo community of Moygownagh.

This free event showcases the work of our current preservation project, which is digitising rare VHS tapes and audio cassettes gathered from local homes, capturing the songs, stories, music, and performances of now-forgotten artists from Moygownagh and surrounding district in North Mayo.

From Saturday, 23 August, our current collection of digitised and enhanced videos will be available to view here (please note that this is a work in progress and we will be adding new files as we proceed—as funding supports and volunteer efforts allow).

Under the direction of historian Dr Liam Alex Heffron we are working to rescue these recordings—some nearly 50 years old—from the threat of deterioration. Many feature once-celebrated community members playing music, reciting poetry, telling stories, and performing amateur theatre, particularly from this culturally rich community in mid-North Mayo.

This online ‘Echoes of Our Past’ exhibition will feature curated clips from our developing Digital Heritage project, giving the public an opportunity to rediscover the creative spirit of a region now facing rural decline. These recordings will be permanently hosted online by St Cormac's society in our Digital Heritage Library and be accessible to our local communities, schools, researchers and the wider public.

Experience the rescued echoes of North Mayo’s past and help ensure they’re never lost again — and if you have old VHS or cassette tapes with similar recordings we would be delighted to hear from you—just get in contact with us here.