Did you or someone you know work in Jacob’s in Tallaght or Birshop Street?
If you or someone you know worked in the Jacob’s Biscuit Factory in Tallaght or Bishop Street a project run by Dublin City Council Libraries may be of interest.
Remembering Life in Jacob’s Biscuit Factory is being organised in association with Dublin City Library and Archive and Valeo Foods.
Pics via Dublin City Council Libraries and Archive
The organisers have issued an open invitation to former employees from Jacob’s Biscuit Factory to join them at Dublin City Library and Archive for a special event on 30 September.
The morning will include talks, an opportunity to share stories and memorabilia from your working life, and a visit to the exhibition, Jacob’s Biscuit Factory & Dublin: An Assorted History.
Those attending are encouraged to bring any memorabilia they may have, such as tins, labels or documents, while anyone with old photographs can bring them along.
The photographs will be recorded on the day and will then be added to the Jacob’s Biscuit Factory archive for researchers to access.
Everything you bring in will go home with you on the day.
All guests who wish to participate can do a short piece to camera with Dublin City Council Historian-In-Residence Maeve Casserly about their working life.
The information recorded will then be added to the Jacob’s Biscuit Factory archive.
10:00: Registration and Welcome
Ellen Murphy Senior Archivist, Dublin City Library and Archives
10.15: The Company who put the Fig into the Fig Rolls’: Jacob’s Biscuits and its Archives
Douglas Appleyard, Historian and former Jacob’s Employee
11.00: Tea Party with Kimberely, Mikado, and Coconut Creams!
11.30: An Assortment of Stories: Curating the Jacob’s Factory Exhibition
Wendy Williams, Exhibition Researcher
12.00: The exhibition ‘Jacob’s Biscuit Factory & Dublin: An Assorted History’ will be open for public access and Wendy Williams will be available to answer your questions
10.00-13.00 Throughout the morning guests will be invited to help record new information to add to the Jacob’s Biscuit Factory Archive with the Jacob’s Memorabilia project and Jacob’s Memories Project.
Please let organisers know when you arrive if you would like to participate in either project.
Location details: Dublin City Library & Archive.
Booking is required as places are limited. Please email dublinpubliclibraries@dublincity.ie / 01-6744806.
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