More than 3,000 photographs, depicting the lives of ordinary people in Connemara, taken by the great Irish film maker Bob Quinn, are to be stored in NUI, Galway.
The university’s James Hardiman Library will store more than 3,000 select images from Mr Quinn’s photographic archive, covering the past 20 years mainly. The images have been digitised and put on to three CDs.
The library will also store some 25,000 negatives of Mr Quinn’s photographs, and final details are being worked out in advance of this taking place.
The project to digitise and index this archive was jointly funded by NUIG and Údarás na Gaeltachta.
John Cox, librarian at the James Hardiman Library, said the project has come about in order to ensure the preservation of Mr Quinn’s work.
“The photographs date mainly from the late 1980s and focus on ordinary people,” he told the Galway Advertiser. “They give an insight into daily life in Connemara.”
Thos interested in viewing the photographs can contact the library’s archive service on 091 - 493636.
