Files relating to the proposal, development, planning, funding and construction of Picture Palace / Pálás - led by Lelia Doolan and other partners.
Files include:
P151/15/7/1 - Pálás branding and letter head, business cards
P151/15/7//2 - The Ireland Funds Correspondence (Fundraising, letters from Fionnuala Flanagan, to Loretto Glucksman etc.)
P151/15/7/3 - Structural Engineering - John Casey: survey and site reports
P151/15/7/4 - Fire Engineering Services and Assessments
P151/15/7/5 - Utilities Connection - ESB, Bórd Gáis
P151/15/7/6 - Casey O'Rourke Associates (2011)
P151/15/7/7 - Procurement - Tender Process / A & L Goodbody
P151/15/7/8 - De Paor / Cordill Construction (2010 - 2012) Three Files

Email correspondence, documents, drawings and planning between the Committee of Solas / Picture Palace and with Rhatigan Construction, Cordill Construction, and Andrew P. Nugent & Associates Quantity Surveyors.

Files relating to Cordill Construction (contracts, agreements, processes) also files relating to house adjacent to cinema site and legal case issues that arose in and during the construction phase.

Files of minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors of Solas / Picture Palace / Pálás.
Files Include:
P151/15/4/1 - 2004 - 2007
P151/15/4/2 - 2008 - 2009
P151/15/4/3 - 2009 - 2012 (2 files)
P151/15/4/ - 2013 - 2016 (2 files)

Files of correspondence and documents relating to the Board of Pálás / Picture Palace and the operation of the cinema.
Files include:
P151/15/6/1 - Correspondence and contracts with Element Pictures / Lighthouse Cinemas 2013 - 2015 (2 files)
P151/15/6/2 - Board Correspondence re. contracts and agreements, Element, legal etc. 2014 - 2016
P151/15/6/3 - Board Correspondence re. contracts / legal - general
P151/15/6/4 - Board Correspondence and meetings re. Element, contracts etc. 2013 - 2014
P151/15/6/5 - Board Correspondence with Dept of Arts, Tourism, and Heritage and the Irish Film Board. 2012 (2 files).

P151/15/6/6 - Board Correspondence - General 2012 - 2013
P151/15/6/7 - Board Correspondence with Western Development Commission 2013
P151/15/6/8 - Board Correspondence - Government - University of Galway (NUI Galway) 2013.
P151/15/6/9 - 11 - Board Correspondence - Government (including from Taoiseach Enda Kenny (Files 9) 2013 - 2016
P151/15/6/12 - Tender Report for Completion of Solas / Picture Palace / Pálás - 2012

File includes black and white images including the new church at Athy; Druid's Stone, Colbinstown, Co. Kildare and of Moone High Cross, Co. Kildare.

Black and white photograph of Gallaus Oratory, Co. Kerry.

Black and white photographic prints including a composite image of Moghlawn Case, Co. Clare (Jul 1964); [O'Connell St. Ennis, from bedroom of the Old Ground Hotel, Ennis]; stone cross and carved stone at Kilfenora, Co. Clare; gold objects from gold hoard found at Gorteemeagh, Co. Clare.

File of images taken during productions by Druid Theatre Company in 1978.

MS letter from Alphonsus 'Phons' O' Mara to Michael Rynne, "You do us proud! I'm delighted that your work has brought you so much reward." Print-out of biographical information on Phons O'Mara, a former Mayor of Limerick, also included.
File 2 includes note sent to Michael Rynne, Aug 1922, re. contact needed as Phons O'Mara was missing and his family very worried. Michael adds in a later note that this was one of the "few personal radio message dealt with at the height of the Civil War and before Irregulars driven out of Limerick."