Major Announcement - The Anoraks Ireland Archive Donation

 

PRESS RELEASE – IMPORTANT ANNOUCEMENT

The ‘Anoraks Ireland’ Digitisation Project

 

‘Anoraks Ireland’ was a one-stop resource for Irish radio enthusiasts of the 1980s and early 1990s allowing them to buy or swap cassette recordings and other materials relating to the hundreds of pirate radio stations that existed back then. The organisation extensively documented the unique golden era of pirate radio in the form of photographs, magazines, detailed bandscans, station surveys and much more. Earlier this year ‘Anoraks Ireland’ founder Paul Davidson agreed to donate his vast collection of Irish radio materials to The Irish Pirate Radio Archive at DCU. The materials, primarily from the pirate radio era of the 80s, offer a fascinating insight into the Irish broadcasting landscape of the time and consist of thousands of cassette recordings; photos of DJs; studios & transmitter sites; advertising rate cards; newspaper cuttings along with lots of other materials. The Irish Pirate Radio Archive, ably assisted by the teams at http://Pirate.ie and http://Radiowaves.fm, are in the process of digitising the huge collection and are about to start archiving it across the three websites. We all look forward to making this invaluable collection available to historians, students and visitors to our websites. The digitisation teams are: 

Eddie Bohan, The Irish Pirate Radio Archive & https://ibhof.blogspot.com/

Brian Greene & John Walsh @ http://Pirate.ie

John Fleming @ http://radiowaves.fm

 Thank you to Paul Davidson

ANNOUNCEMENT ENDS

To bring you a flavour of the breath and depth of the extensive ‘Anoraks Ireland’ collection that has been donated by Paul Davidson, the three archive sites, radiowaves.fm, pirate.ie and the one you are currently reading are today featuring just a small fraction of those archives. The thousands of hours of recordings and the large collection of memorabilia will allow listeners, readers, students, educators and historians analyse the Irish pirate radio era, its impact on the Irish broadcasting landscape and the social history of Ireland.

 

To announce this important donation, we are bringing you here the archives of Kandy Radio. This Ballinasloe, County Galway based station began broadcasting in July 1986 on both 216m medium wave and 98mhz FM. Kandy FM closed in December 1988 in accordance with the introduction of the new licensing system that closed the pirate era and ushered in Independent legal commercial radio.

These photographs are courtesy of the Anoraks Ireland archive donation to The Irish Pirate Radio Archive at Dublin City University by Paul Davidson

Each year Paul Davidson sought questionnaires from the pirate stations that were on air. This is the Kandy Radio 1987 Survey

The following is a recording of Kandy Radio made on December 27th 1986

https://www.mixcloud.com/TheIrishPirateRadioExhibition/kandy-radio-galway-the-anoraks-ireland-archive/