This year’s culture night takes place on the 22 September.
Culture night is an annual all-island public event that celebrates culture,
creativity and the arts. The James Hardiman Library is holding an evening of
talks and an exhibition to celebrate culture. The focus of the talks is on
community development with the focus on materials from the Muintir na Tíre
collection as well as volumes from the 19th century printed
collections.
The James Hardiman Library’s collections hold a rich source
of material on local and community studies. In the archives we have collections
from The Abbey Theatre, The Gate Theatre, Professor Kevin Boyle, Brendan Duddy,
Ritchie-Pickow, Éamon de Buitléar, Tim Robinson and Druid Theatre company to
name but a few. The James Hardiman Library has recently acquired the archive of
Muintir na Tíre, a national voluntary organisation dedicated to promoting the
process of community development. A series of blogs
have been written about the work to date of making the collection accessible
for researchers.
The Muintir na Tíre talk will look at Rural Ireland and Landmark two
publications of Muintir na Tíre and discuss how they promoted community
development before and after the United Nations definition in 1958. These will
also be on display in the exhibition. Community development in Galway and the
West of Ireland will be discussed as well during the talk. Much earlier
attempts at community development in Galway will be addressed in the talk on
James Hardiman and his involvement with organisations such as the Royal Galway
Institution.
Venue: Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Talks:
18.30: “Muintir na Tíre Periodical literature”.
Speaker: Fiona Kearney, Archivist
19.30: “James Hardiman, historian of Galway” Speaker: Marie
Boran, Special Collections Librarian
We hope you can come along and join us for the evening.
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