Communities and Collections

Shown below is a list of communities and the collections and sub-communities within them. Click on a name to view that community or collection home page.

Artefacts
Audio
- Clondalkin Paper Mills Oral History Collection
- Irish Life and Lore 1916 Collection
- Irish Life and Lore 1916 Collection
- Irish Life and Lore Carlow Collection
- Irish Life and Lore Catalogues
- Irish Life and Lore Cork City Collection
- Irish Life and Lore Fingal County Collection
- Irish Life and Lore Kildare Collection
- Irish Life and Lore Meath Collection
- Irish Life and Lore South Dublin County Collection
- Irish Life and Lore Wexford Festival Opera Collection
- Miscellaneous Audio Material
- Peamount Oral History
  Oral history of Peamount from sanatoruim to present.
- South Dublin Heritage Walks Collection Audio
  Audio for Heritage Walks
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- W & R Jacob & Co. Collection
Books
Burial Records and Transcriptions
- South Dublin Burial Records and Transcriptions
Ephemera
- Arts ephemera
- Documents
- General Election 2007
  Selection of brochures from the 2007 General Election
- General Election 2011
  Political brochures from the 2011 General Election
- General Ephemera
- General Political ephemera
- Postal ephemera
- Presidential Election 2011
  Brochures relating to the candidates for the 2011 Presidential Election
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Exhibitions
- Exhibitions
- Landscapes of War and Peace
  Exhibition panels for Michael Whelan's 2014 exhibition
- Revolutionary Period Exhibitions
- World War I Exhibitions
  Decade of Centenaries exhibitions 2014-2018
Historical Maps
- Duncan
- Maps
- Miscellaneous
- Ordnance Survey Maps
- Rocque
- Taylor
Images
- 1916 Rising Collection
  Photographs relating to the 1916 Rising.
- 1916 Rising Sites
  Photographs of sites and buildings associated with the 1916 Rising.
- Adare Manor Collection
- Alen MacWeeney Travellers Collection
  Photographs of Travellers taken by Alen MacWeeney between 1965 and 1971
- Ballyknockan Collection
  Granite has been quarried in Ballyknockan for almost 200 years. Almost everything in the village, from the farmhouses and cottages to the walls is made from local stone.
- Brendan Cahill Collection
  Photographs of pre-development Lucan
- Brendan McCauley Collection
- Brian MacCormaic Collection
- Brittas Saggart Rathcoole Newcastle
- Clondalkin Open Day Collection
  Historical items donated by the local community
- Clondalkin Paper Mills Collection
  Collection of items related to Clondalkin Paper Mills
- Clondalkin Paper Mills Collection
- Covid Memories Collection
  Covid Memories was a project involving local schools and was part of South Dublin County Council's Decade of Centenaries programme.
- David Cotter Postcard Collection
- Davidson & Associates Ltd
- Dublin Fire Brigade Collection
  Photographs relating to the history of Dublin Fire Brigade, particulary during the Irish Revolutionary Period.
- Elizabeth Cleary Collection
  Photographs from Elizabeth Cleary's exhibition 'Corners of Tallaght'
- European Photo Services Ltd
  Aerial Photographs of South Dublin County, taken in 2009.
- Fashioning a Suburban Neighbourhood in the Late 1960s
  Rathfarnham Shopping Centre Fashion Show Photos
- Father Browne S.J. Collection
  Photographs taken in South Dublin County by Father Brown S.J.. Reproduced by kind permission of the Irish Picture Library.
- From Books Collection
- Garda Museum Collection
  Selection of images from Garda Siochána archives
- George Gmelch Collection
  Photographs of the Travelling Community, Rathfarnham in 1971/1972.
- Gerry O'Leary Photography
  Aerial Photographs of South Dublin County, taken in 2004.
- Halliday Collection
- Irish Twentieth Century Show and Circus Life Collection
  Photographs from George McCormack's collection from Ireland's show and circus community from the 1920s-1950s
- Jacobs Collection
  Images relating to the Jacobs biscuit factory
- Joe Walsh Collection
- Joe Williams Postcard Collection
- Livingston Collection
- Mary McNally Collection
  1920s and 1930s photographs of Saggart.
- Michael Fewer Collection
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage Collection
  Photographs from the NIAH South Dublin County survey.
- Patrick Healy Collection
- South Dublin Heritage Walks Collection
- South Dublin Libraries Images
- South West Express Collection
  Photographs from the South West Express newspaper archive.
- Streets Broad and Narrow
- Survey of Thatched Houses in County Dublin
  A survey of the thatched houses in County Dublin, carried out by the Office of Public Works in 1986
- T.J. Byrne Collection
  Images and drawings related to the architect T.J. Byrne.
- Tallaght 2000 Collection
  Photographs from the Comtec Media Project collection of photographs taken in Tallaght in 2000.
- Tallaght Historical Society Collection
- Tallaght St. Patrick's Day Parade Collection
  Photos relating to the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Tallaght
- The Holy Land: a reading; a description of a series of lantern slides
  Glass slides of photographs taken in the Holy Land. They were first exhibited in Clondalkin Library in 1911.
- The New Neighbourhood of Dublin
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- Urney Chocolates Collection
  Images relating to the Urney Chocolate Factory, which was located on the Belgard Road in Tallaght.
- Winifred M. Letts Collection
  A collection of archival material relating to War Poet Winifred Mabel Letts.
- Woodville: Scott Family Collection
  Archive relating to Woodville House, which stood between St. Edmundsbury and Hermitage in Lucan.
Irish Revolutionary Period
Item Factory
- Public Submissions
- Published Items
Newspapers and Periodicals
- 'Scissors and Paste', 'Eire:Ireland' and Nationality newspapers
  Newspapers published by Arthur Griffith for some of 1914/1915. To avoid censorship restrictions the papers reproduced news stories from Europe’s newspapers.
- Glenasmole Newsletter
- Illustrated London News
  Articles of Irish interest from the Illustrated London News
- Lucan Newsletter
- Miscellaneous Periodicals
- Tallaght Echo
- Tallaght Press
- The Knocklyon News
  The newsletter of St. Colmcille's Parish, Knocklyon.
- The Templeogue Telegraph
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Pamphlets
- Genealogy Guides
- Leaving Certificate History Research Study Guides
  A series of guides to sources available at the Local Studies Section at the County Library, Tallaght, for the Leaving Cert. History Research Study.
- Pamphlets
Quaker Collection
South Dublin Burial Records and Transcriptions
- St. Maelruain's Graveyard Transcriptions
  Digitised from the St. Maelruan's Teamwork Project
South Dublin's Military Heritage
- Before 1914
  Pre-Great War Military items
- Irish Defence Forces
- Post 1945
- South Dublin County War Memorials
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- World War I
- World War II
St. Patrick's Hospital Collection
Agmondisham Vesey Esq. Lucan and Kildare Estate Maps
- Maps
  Agmondisham Vesey Esq. Lucan and Kildare Estate Maps
Video
- Digitised video
- Digitised Video

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Communities and Collections