Lost Irish history reclaimed in immersive 3D experience
by Caroline Davies from World news | The Guardian on (#60T1R)
Beyond 2022 project recreates documents and maps lost during 1922 Four Courts battle
When the Public Record Office of Ireland was reduced to rubble and ashes in the Irish civil war, seven centuries of precious historical documents were lost.
Exactly 100 years later, the public will be able to step back in time into the six-storey Victorian building in Dublin to experience it as it was on the eve of its destruction in June 1922 via an immersive 3D experience, and access many of those records thanks to a pioneering global project reclaiming Irish history.
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