The BEO (Irish for 'alive') Online Irish Local Heritage Archive Library is a collection of photographs, films and stories that reflect the social, economic, educational, religious and cultural life in Galway and Ireland in days gone by with a particular focus on the twentieth century.

The primary method of gathering this historical material is through community social events hosted by local schools as well as by heritage groups and active retirement associations.

It would be appreciated that, if you use any of the material from this website, you acknowledge the BEO Digital Local Heritage Archive Library as it would show the utmost respect to the contributions made by our school and community volunteers .

Disclaimer:

Please note that the photographic, video, audio and text retained and processed on this website is solely for the public interest and for historical research.

Should you feel any such material should be removed please contact brendan.b.smith@universityofgalway.ie

The BEO project is coordinated by the Insight SFI Irish Research Centre for Data Analytics at the University of Galway in association with the Heritage Office of Galway County Council.

The University Data Protection Page has details of your data protection rights(access requests, rectification, erasure, portability, objection, lodge a complaint) and procedures: www.universityofgalway.ie/data-protection/datasubjectrights/ . The University Data Protection Officer can be contacted at: www.universityofgalway.ie/data-protection/contactus/ The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner can be contacted at: www.dataprotection.ie/en/contact/how-contact-us