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A pile of unsorted pages from the Derek Bell collection

Archiving in a Time of Covid

ITMA archivist, Maeve Gebruers, reports on ITMA’s 2020 Heritage Council Project, Boscaí Ceoil.

“The investment made by our funders in digitisation programmes over the years has enabled ITMA’s digital door to remain open through-out this pandemic.”

ITMA Archivist Maeve Gerubers
The Heritage Council's Online Grant Portal
Specialised acid free archival boxes, binders and folders, November 2020

“When ITMA re-opened to the public on the 2 December 2020, after the second lockdown, it was a race against time to get the project completed in time for Christmas.”

ITMA Archivist Maeve Gerubers
The Derek Bell music manuscripts re-housed in A3 clam-shell acid free binders
The Coolin, Derek Bell music manuscript
Gráinne and Michael Yeats, World Harp Congress, Vienna, 1987
Files from the Gráinne Yeats Collection (GYE-255503) before re-housing
The Gráinne Yeats & Tomás Ó Canainn collections after re-housing
from Laoithe Chruit ársa na hÉireann. London: Printed by Robson, Levey, and Franklin, 1835. A book from the Gráinne Yeats Collection