Presentation on the 'Fáilte Ireland Tourism Photographic Collection', delivered by Dublin City Library and Archive Senior Librarian Tara Doyle as part of the DRI webinar 'Using Digital Archives for Historical Research', which took place on 23 Feb 2021.

1. Fáilte Ireland Tourism Photographic Collection
Dublin City Library and Archive:
We collect, care for and share Dublin's history
Ladies View,
Killarney,
1979

2. Fáilte Ireland – National Tourism Development
(Bord Fáilte 1955 - 2003)
• Bord Fáilte - market Ireland as a tourist destination -
photographs for ads and mag/newspaper articles
• Employed professional photographers
• In 2014, 100,000+ images donated to Dublin City Library
and Archive by Fáilte Ireland
• Glass plates, b/w & colour film negatives, slides, prints
• 1930s - 1990s
• 15k on DRI, thousands more to follow
• Subjects: landscapes & scenery, monuments & historic
sites, festivals & people, sport & outdoor pursuits, craft,
indigenous industry, shopping, buildings & interiors,
artefacts......
Blarney Stone,
Co. Cork, 1991

3. Co. Donegal, 1959
Nun's Island, Galway city, 1989
Slieve League Cliffs, Co.
Donegal, 1948
Schull,
Co. Cork,
1989

4. Paddy 'The Cope' Gallagher, Co. Donegal, 1950s
Newcastle West, Co. Limerick, 1950s

5. Dublin playgrounds, 1949

6. Derrynea Fair, Co. Galway, 1950s

7. Puck Fair, Killorglin, Co. Kerry, 1967 Fleadh Cheoil, Gorey, Co. Wexford, 1962

8. Moore Street at Christmas,
Dublin, 1953

9. Dwyer's Pub, Moore Street, Dublin, 1958
Travers Purcell, Co. Wexford, 1971

10. Virginia, Co. Cavan, 1984
Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath, 1982
1971

11. Grafton Street, Dublin, 1972

12. Busaras, Dublin, 1954

13. O'Connell Street, Dublin, 1975 Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1967

14. Blarney Castle, Co. Cork, 1991 Malahide Castle, Co. Dublin, 1979

15. More information:
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Knockmealdowns, Co. Tipperary, 1951