Sweet Stories of Dublin with Storymap

February 7, 2013

Screen shot 2013-02-06 at 19.02.20 I just spent the last hour watching videos on StoryMap. Have you heard of it? It’s a map of Dublin with little colorful polka dots. When you click on the dots, you get videos from people – locals or historians or tour guides – telling stories about Dublin from exactly that spot! There’s a whole range of story categories, from literary to funny to historic. They give you great little bits of trivia about different places around Dublin. They’re just fantastic!

StoryMap would be a fun way to explore the city – especially since there’s an app! Just search StoryMap in iTunes or Google Play to find it. It’s about 3 euro – imagine watching these little videos while standing in the spot where they were told!

Here are a few StoryMap stories to get you started:

Ireland’s Nazi Spy / Eighty Year Old Underwear / Murder at Trinity College

7 Comments

  • Reply Jess {JessinBelgium} February 7, 2013 at 3:02 pm

    What a fabulous idea! You should make some of your own Dublin video stories! I would love to see one of these for London. So many stories floating around that city.

  • Reply Tom Rowley (storymap) February 7, 2013 at 11:09 pm

    Hey, Thanks for the write up! Glad you’re enjoying the site. Would you have a good story yourself? Always on the lookout for new ones. Hoping to expand the site to new cities soon too, with any luck

    • Reply Tom Rowley (storymap) February 7, 2013 at 11:11 pm

      Ah wait, just realised we’d tweeted you earlier about getting a story! Didn’t realise the link till just there, doh.

      • Reply emily February 7, 2013 at 11:54 pm

        Ha that’s okay! Just putting me under more pressure to come up with a story! Think it’s a fab idea to expand to other cities – love the concept! Ill have a think over the weekend about story ideas and pop you an email if anything’s half decent!

  • Reply Jess in Belgium: Super, Pretty Funny {No. 21} February 8, 2013 at 2:38 pm

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  • Reply Jenni February 10, 2013 at 4:04 am

    Oh! I saw something about this a few weeks back. Yay, what a great idea! They should do this for every city.

  • Reply Jessica February 11, 2013 at 11:53 am

    How fun! What a great idea!

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