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from the entire island, Irish art and design abroad, and non-Irish artists and designers working in
Ireland. NIVAL is sustained by material contributions from artists, arts organisations and arts workers. Information is also acquired from galleries, cultural institutions, critics, the art and design industries, and national and local authorities responsible for the visual arts. NIVAL is housed on the campus of the
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unavailable elsewhere. The collection includes files on all leading artists and designers of the period (including contemporary artists and designers), monographs, exhibition catalogues, price lists, brochures, press releases and newspaper reviews. Since its founding, NIVAL has received annual revenue subsidies from the
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NIVAL's special collections are over sixty groups of discrete archival material which originated from one source and are more useful to the researcher when kept together. They document an artist, arts organisation, art movement, or a combination thereof. Several collections are ongoing; these include
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is a public research resource which is dedicated to the documentation of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish visual art and design. It collects, stores and makes available for research documentation of Irish art and design in all media. NIVAL's collection policy encompasses Irish art and design
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The library's major components are books, journals and catalogues; ephemera files, and special collections. NIVAL's books, journals and catalogues are the most comprehensive collection of published titles pertaining to Irish art and design. There are more than 3,000 books and exhibition catalogues
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NIVAL was established in 1997 by Edward Murphy, a librarian at the
National College of Art and Design for thirty-five years. The library's aim is to document all aspects of twentieth- and twenty-first century Irish art and design. Much of the material, amassed over a thirty-year period, is
478:: administrative records, correspondence, research material, design drawings and prototypes for graphic design and industrial design projects from the Kilkenny Design Workshops Design Consultancy, dating from the 1980s (acquired 2012–2015)
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The ephemera files are a collection of printed documentation such as invitation cards, press releases, news clippings, brochures, and small-scale catalogues. File material is classified by artist, galleries, related subjects, and design.
349:: administrative records of the FNCI, a voluntary body founded in 1924 by Irish artist Sarah Purser to help preserve Ireland's artistic heritage when there was little (or no) state support for art collections in Ireland (acquired 2001)
122:: a growing collection of documentation on the history of Irish artist-led cultural initiatives since 1970. The collection documents about 75 such initiatives and the cultural conditions influencing their development (acquired 2010).
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the
Artists’ Books Collection of hand-made, letterpress, and limited-edition books and the Posters Collection, which includes works by Irish artists and designers (and important designers who worked in Ireland). It includes vintage
524:: NCAD student registers from 1877 to the 1970s; headmasters' reports, files and correspondence from 1907 documenting NCAD and its predecessor, the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art (acquired 1997)
308:: paper documentation of Embroidery Artists group activities and lace and embroidery samples. The sewing samples were a teaching collection used by the NCAD's embroidery department (acquired 2009).
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and auto-didactic art throughout
Ireland. The archive includes sketchbooks, diaries, photographs, ephemera and a library amassed as Haining bicycled around the 32 counties (acquired 2011).
191:: administrative records, exhibition records and audio-visual documentation of centre activities compiled, organised and donated by former director Sandy Fitzgerald (acquired 2012)
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282:: criticism, correspondence and other documentation on Irish and international art from the 1970s–1990s, bequeathed to NIVAL by the critic and art historian (acquired 2004)
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197:: financial and administrative records of Cleo, a clothing shop on Kildare Street in Dublin which specialises in Irish knitwear and textiles (acquired 2010)
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542:: Artist's sketchbooks, photographs, correspondence, drawings and small sculptures documenting the sculptor's work, donated by John Turpin (acquired 2003)
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273:(1951–1987), an Irish publisher specialising in hand-printed editions of poetry and art. Compiled by Dolmen Press co-founder Liam Miller (acquired 1997).
584:: artist's papers relating to the Irish sculptor and records of the Institute of Sculptors of Ireland, founded by Grant during the 1950s (acquired 1999)
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714:: David Caron's PhD research (including images) of the Dublin studio and its group of stained-glass artists from 1903 to 1944 (acquired 2015)
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364:: institutional archive of letters, catalogues, photographs and ephemera from the 1960 establishment of the studio to its 2010 acquisition
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donation): documentary material relating to the activities of the independent curatorial organisation since the mid-1990s (acquired 2003)
625:: correspondence and other documentary materials relating to Rosc '71, donated by the estate of James Johnson Sweeney from 2005 to 2010
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donation): documentary material, including two volumes of press clippings, exhibition catalogues, visitors books and minutes, from the
599:: ongoing collection of posters relating to Irish artists, designers, galleries and subjects, including 1950s Aer Lingus posters by
693:: exhibition records and studio programmes from the contemporary-art venue from its 1983 establishment to 2000 (acquired 2008–2010)
569:: photographs of artworks and documentation relating to the Ukrainian-born artist, who lived and worked in Belfast (acquired 2004)
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papers): administrative records compiled by Boylan relating to Irish
Directions, a travelling exhibition of Irish art at the
90:: research notes, sewing samples and preparatory drawings relating to the tapestry commemorating the centennial of the 1913
496:: documentary material on Jellet's life and work, including correspondence, sketchbooks and personal items (acquired 2007)
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505:: collection documenting the Irish metalworker, including photographs, press cuttings and personal items (acquired 2000)
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428:: administrative records and photographic documentation of the society's activities from 1979 to its 2013 acquisition
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720:: three wallpaper-sample books and issues of British women's magazines dating from the late 1800s (acquired 2015)
373:: correspondence, preparatory artwork and photographs belonging to the Irish stained-glass artist (acquired 2011)
169:: an extensive collection of research materials compiled and edited by Lalor in preparation for his publication,
616:: artist's papers and photographs relating to the American painter, who moved to Ireland in 1969 (acquired 2004)
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560:: books, papers and photographs belonging to the Irish abstract painter, bequeathed to NIVAL (acquired 2015)
243:: ledgers and scrapbooks documenting the activities of the Egan Gallery in the 1920s–1930s (acquired 1998)
472:: records, press clippings and photographic documentation from the workshops, 1963–1989 (acquired 2001),
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514:: a portion of the 1916 diary of the Irish stained-glass artist, in which he writes about the Easter
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463:: 20 years of administrative diaries and visitors’ books, donated by the gallery (acquired 2008–2010)
593:: books and drawings by the Dutch graphic designer, who lived and worked in Ireland (acquired 2007)
314:: material relating to Irish artist Ernest Hayes (1914–1978), donated by his family (acquired 2013)
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in NCAD's Visual
Communications Department. Includes photographs and correspondence (acquired 2015)
298:: graphic design examples and illustration by the American born, Irish-based, artist and designer
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551:: drawings and sketches for stained-glass commissions by the British-born artist (acquired 2014)
98:, NCAD and a number of community groups collaborated on the project, which was acquired in 2015.
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156:: artist's papers relating to public art commissions and digital images of performance work by
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Blackwood, Katie, "Kilkenny Design
Workshops: The Archiving of the Press Clippings at NIVAL",
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Ink
Stained Hands: Graphic Studio Dublin and the Origins of Fine-Art Printmaking in Ireland
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Walker, Una, "Archiving Design: Cataloguing Images from the
Kilkenny Design Workshops",
150:, and limited-edition books created by artists born or living in Ireland (1997, ongoing)
702:: research and correspondence associated with the publication of Snoddy's 20th-century
578:: hand-printed material by the American graphic designer and printmaker (acquired 2014)
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436:: Fashion forecasts, mood boards and reports from the board, 1993—1999 (acquired 1999)
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and tourism posters, NCAD print-studio posters, and a variety of exhibition posters.
292:, ecclesiastical furnishers with offices in Dublin from 1852 to 1974 (acquired 2002)
227:'s 2005 retrospective exhibition. Donated to the library by Klaasen's widow in 2008.
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Conroy, Aisling, "Archiving
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765:"Obituaries: 'Irreplaceable' NCAD librarian Edward Murphy – Independent.ie"
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116:: administration and financial records from the association (acquired 2011)
487:: papers and research notes on the Irish artist and weaver (acquired 2009)
445:: examples of graphic design, including Aer Lingus posters (acquired 1998)
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and about 60 journals, searchable on the NCAD's online library catalogue.
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Art Researchers' Guide to Dublin, with an introduction by Christine Casey
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Fitzpatrick, Olivia; Roberto, Rose; Kirwan, Elizabeth; Murphy, Edward.
454:: John Turpin's research material on the Irish sculptor (acquired 2003)
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339:: sketchbooks and correspondence relating to Irish sculptural designer
182:: sketchpads of drawings belonging to the Irish painter (acquired 2015)
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684:: ephemera (mainly press clippings) acquired from the designer in 1999
104:: Niamh O'Sullivan's research material on Irish impressionist painter
140:: material on the Irish arts consulting organisation (acquired 2012)
379:: artist Peter Haining's archive of a six-year project to document
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320:: books and ephemera from the artist's library (acquired 1997)
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Heritage Outlook: the Magazine of the Heritage Council
643:: administrative records of the SDI (precursor to the
358:: papers relating to the art collector (acquired 2015)
633:: more than 900 SSI membership records (precursor to
219:: examples of Klaasen's graphic design, including a
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249:: John Turpin's research material on Irish painter
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43:Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
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329:: photographs and slides of exhibitions at the
657:: correspondence, documentation and images of
347:Friends of the National Collections of Ireland
259:: posters, prints and handmade books from the
718:Wallpaper Sample Books and Women's Magazines
788:Romano, Donna. "Edward Murphy, 1948–2014",
269:: samples of printed material published by
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675:lottery to fund hospitals (acquired 2012)
333:gallery from 1990 to 2013 (acquired 2014)
41:and project-development funding from the
160:sculptor Brian Connolly (acquired 2015)
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