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23rd March 

We had our first major technical issues today, with making sure everyone has admin privileges for this blog, but we were able to find a solution, and learned a little bit more about this platform too! As we have split our group into two sections, one working on the blog page and the other working on the storymaps page, those of us working on the blog had our first look at the storymaps, which looks incredible so far! The page looks so professional, and I found it really interesting to see the distances that future indentured labourers had to travel while still in India. The storymaps put into perspective, for me at least, the huge sacrifices and choices made by those groups. In Ireland, our narrative of indentureship and emigration is tied together, and the length of the sea journey across the Atlantic is a key feature of stories of Irish emigration, so it was fascinating to put an even longer and more harrowing journey into its proper context, and I can't wait to find out more about the cultural and geographical impact these journeys have.

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