These files deal with the publication of Rural Ireland which was formally known as x. Rural Ireland has been published on the Digital Repository. https://digital.library.nuigalway.ie/islandora/object/nuigalway%3Amuintir_rural_ireland
Black and white photograph of Rural Electrification, with the erection of the first pole in Kilsallaghan, Co Dublin.
Correspondence regarding the organising of the seminar on 12 October 1985.
Correspondence with Tony Bourke, Rural Development Division in the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry regarding the Rural Animation business plan from Muintir na Tíre; LEADER II funding; includes note of meeting with Jimmy Deenihan, Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry.
Circulars regarding the programme and funding position; copies of slides from conferences on the programme.
Circulars from the Rural Development Division regarding the National Mainstream Programme; LEADER +; LEADER notes and budget for the programme.
Circulars regarding updates and rules on the Mainstream programme; application from Muintir na Tíre to draw down funding.
File contains details on Muintir na Tíre’s position and strategy post 2000; synopsis on papers by Eoin O’Gara on Department of Agriculture and Food White Paper on Rural Development ‘Ensuring the Future: A strategy for Rural Development in Ireland’; includes draft layout for community council development.
Booklet, 'Rural Communities: What Do They Need Most?', reprinted April 1940 by the United States Department of Agriculture from an original edition published in 1937. The booklet presents trends affecting rural communities and suggestions for addressing said trends.
2 aerial photographs of coastal promontories adjacent to Runkerry House, Portballintrae, County Antrim.