TUS Archive & Special Collections

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A sneak peak at some of our Brendan O'Brien Collection held in TUS Archive & Special Collections substack.com/profile/323399…

Read our review of our first #heritageweek event on substack. shorturl.at/A6Ou1

We are up and running with our first #heritageweek exhibition voices from the region highlights from the TUS archive. If you are in the area please feel free to drop in and say hello.

We had a visit from Jack O'Sullivan today who donated lots more boxes to the archive covering topics such as the environment and planning. Here's Emmet with the pile of boxes Jack brought with him today.

Our exciting news was we were to be on the radio! Tune in now to hear Sally Ann Barrett from @Midlands103 Saturday Focus speak to Celine Peignen Librarian TUS and Saoirse Mahon and Gearoid O'Brien on the Archive & Special Collections especially the All Ireland Drama Collection.

Tune in tomorrow morning to @Midlands103 Saturday Focus with Sally Anne Barrett 10-11am. Celine Peignen & Saoirse Mahon from @TUS_LibraryMD and Gearoid O'Brien will be talking about the TUS library archive and its All Ireland drama festival collection. midlands103.com/on-air/saturda…

Save the date: 25th August 2025. At our next annual seminar we will discuss AI in libraries.... we can't wait to hear your thoughts @LAIonline

A little trailer video for something that happened today in the Library with our Archive and Special Collections. We're quite excited. More will be revealed soon!

Very excited for tomorrow for the launch. We're all set up and ready to welcome our guests.

We got copies of #allirelanddramafestival programme today. Lots of great events and productions to look forward too. Including our launch! Happening on the 15th May at 3pm. Pick up a copy or click here for details online dramafestival.ie/event/launch-o… @AllIrelandDram1 @TUS_LibraryMD

A big thank you to the @dri_ireland and our tutor this morning Noelia for our online training session. Looking forward to applying what we learned to our archive.

We are on Substack! Visit us at shorturl.at/BxpUr read about the history of the festival and the collection and our work archiving it. We will posting regular updates so would love you to follow and subscribe. #tusarchiveandsc #athlonedramafestival

Meet the committee members.

One of the challenges of cataloguing the documents in the Brendan O'Brien collection is deciphering handwriting. This letter took me some time to decipher but eventually I was able to see who it was by and the gist of the letter

Seachtain na Gaeilge le Energia shona daoibh! 🥳 Bainigí sult as an bhféile a chairde 💜 Tá gach eolais faoin bhféile ar fáil ar snag.ie agus tá liosta na n-imeachtaí ar fáil ar peig.ie/snag 🤩 @EnergiaEnergy @CnaG #SnaG25 #Gaeilge #FunnyFocail

Delighted to announce that we have been accepted to join the #digitalrepositoryofireland Looking forward to meeting the other members and working with DRI. We are excited to start uploading our collections!

Doing some work on our Brendan O’Brien Archive - material relating to the All-Ireland Drama Festival. Here is a sneak peak of preservation and cataloguing work! Slowly moving each letter from this yellow unsuitable folder into separate preservation covers.

We have started archiving and digitising some of the Brendan O’Brien archive material relating to the All-Ireland Drama Festival 1953-1982. Below are photos of our team and an item we were working on today.