Item 1 - National Museums and Heritage

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UGA P133/5/4/1

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National Museums and Heritage

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  • [197-]-2000

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1 file, c. 80 pp

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University of Galway Archives

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Edition of booklet, "Museum Service for Ireland", published by The Institute of Professional Civil Servants, which made recommendations for the regionalisation of services and resources in Ireland [1973/4], with attached notes and commentary on the booklet by the Galway/Mayo Regional Development Group (Jan 1974); Press cuttings, 1976, from Irish national papers and also regional papers debating the current condition of museums, heritage, and culture in Ireland, with extensive commentary on museums, national collections, regional museums, Wood Quay and destruction of heritage, and related issues. includes letters sent to the Irish Press and other papers by Etienne Rynne within the debate, 1976-1978. Includes letter from G. Frank Mitchell, Royal Irish Academy, to Etienne Rynne, regarding Rynne, inviting Rynne to contribute content to an exhibition catalogue in development between the RIA and Trinity College Dublin, 1976.
Correspondence from the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Dublin, regarding invitation to make a submission on the proposed consolidation and revision of the National Monuments Acts, 1930-1994.

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      Dates of creation revision deletion

      13/12/2018
      16/07/2025

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