Opening Hours:

Monday-Friday 10.00-13.00 and 14.00-17.00

Background:

The Irish Theatre Archive was established in 1981 and now holds 250 collections and over 100,000 individual items.

Major collections:

Theatre Collections: An Damer; Cork Theatre Company; Dublin Masque Theatre Guild; Dublin Theatre Festival; Gaiety Theatre, Dublin; Irish Theatre Company; Olympia Theatre, Dublin; Rough Magic Theatre Company; Brendan Smith Academy; Theatre Royal, Dublin Actors, Costumiers and Designers Collections: P.J. Bourke; Eddie Cooke; Ursula Doyle; Donald Finlay; James N. Healy; Eddie Johnston; Nora Lever; Micheal Mac Liammóir; Dennis Noble; Jimmy O'Dea; Shelah Richards; Cecil Sheridan Other collections: Extensive collections of programmes, posters, photographs, press cuttings, prompt-books, costume and stage designs relating to theatres, amateur groups and theatre clubs, together with original plays in typescript and manuscript.

Publications:

Prompts: Bulletin of the Irish Theatre Archive, nos. 1-6

Previous exhibitions:

Twenty-five Years of the Dublin Theatre Festival; The Olympia Theatre, Dublin; Dion Boucicault and the Irish Melodrama Tradition; Eddie Johnston and the Lyric Theatre, Belfast; Tour of the Country: Ireland and the Fit-Ups; The Life and Career of Cyril Cusack (in association with National Library of Ireland); Shakespeare in Ireland (productions of Shakespearian Drama from 1880 onwards); Sean O'Casey, Dramatist (in association with Sean O'Casey Society); Years of Laughter: the Centenary of Jimmy O'Dea; Noel Purcell, Actor and Dubliner; Aspects of Mícheál: MacLiammóir and the Dublin Gate Theatre.