Files relating to the participation and association of Macnas with the Galway [International] Arts Festival.
Files 1 and 2 include minutes and meetings of the Board of Galway [International] Arts Festival and related correspondence, with details of activities and discussions of the Board in relation to the planning and administration of the Festival for 1992 - 1994. Also includes briefing document made by the Festival and presented to Michael D. Higgins, T.D., Minister for Arts, Culture, and the Gaeltacht, 1993.
Files 3-4 include printed programmes from the Festival for years 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997. Also includes printed programme from production by Footsbarn Theatre Company; flyers from Babóró Children's Festival (1997) and also a programme flyer from Galway Children's Arts Festival 1991.

File relating to the establishment of the Macnas arts Association, details of its first meeting of its second committee (Mar 1993), and minutes of meetings of the Galway Arts, Social and Cultural Club, with minutes of meetings taken place at Fisheries Field through 1993.

Printed reports from the Macnas Ideas Forum I and II.
Forum I was held 10-11 January 2001 and Forum II was held 26-27 March 2001. The documents are reports of the forum sessions which were brainstorming and planning sessions by members of Macnas, in terms of planning creative projects and parade content, themes, designs etc. for forthcoming events.

Typed documents with memories from Macnas company members of various productions.

Hardbound A4 notebook with manuscript messages taken by Macnas from enquiries made to the Macnas Office.

Issue 1 and issue 2 of printed Macnas Newsletter, from February and May 1996.

File of press cuttings from Galway, western and national press with coverage of productions by Macnas and also coverage of the arts generally in Galway and Ireland. Macnas productions covered include Gulliver, Alice in Wonderland, The Macnas Carnival Ball; Dublin Millennium Celebrations, Connacht Gaelic Football Final Pageant 1987, Castlebar; Daffodil Day campaign, Bórd Iascaigh Mhara campaign; Galway arts Festival parades as well as coverage of arts funding and policy in Ireland generally.

File of press cuttings relating to Macnas productions in Galway and nationwide. Specific events covered in the press include Bórd Iascaigh Mhara; Glasgow Music Festival, Scotland; Treasure Island, Galway; Gulliver in U.K.; Macnas Ball, Seán Ó Riada pageant; Gulliver and other events Also press coverage of funding for Macnas and for the arts in general in Ireland.

File of press cuttings regarding events and productions by Macnas during 1991. Includes coverage from regional and western press as well as national press of Macnas events and of coverage of the arts in Ireland generally. File primarily relates to production of Tir Faoi Thonn by Macnas and in association with Red Kettle Theatre Company, Waterford, with coverage of the parade from both Galway and from Waterford. Also coverage of other productions by Macnas in 1991, such as the Macnas Christmas show.

File of press cuttings from local press in Galway with coverage of Circus Story production by Macnas in Galway.