Irish Film Archive

The Irish Film Archive is part of the Irish Film Institute (formed in 1943, incorporated in 1945) the body charged with the promotion and preservation of film culture in Ireland. The Archive collects, preserves and makes accessible Ireland's moving image heritage. It is the leading resource for students of Irish film and film history. Its collection includes 30,000 cans of film,15,000 tapes, the Tiernan MacBride reference library and over 30,000 stills, posters and documents. The collection reflects Irish film production for over a century, with material from 1897 to the present day held in climate controlled vaults in Dublin's cultural quarter, Temple Bar. The collection incorporates fiction, features, public information films, amateur material, documentaries, newsreels, experimental film and animation. The Archive was originally formed as a department of the IFI in 1986, becoming formally established in 1992 when the Irish Film Institute building in Temple Bar was opened. By the mid-2000s were almost full and a campaign was launched in November 2011 to fund a new archive facility. The campaign sought to raise €300,000, and featured Irish actor Saoirse Ronan. The Archive partnered with Maynooth University to develop a second archive, building on the Maynooth campus and in 2018, the new facility was officially opened, tripling the archive’s capacity. As part of the Irish Film

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