Our Irish archive collections are held in the ESB Centre for the Study of Irish Art and the Yeats Archive. Discover selected highlights from these special collections below. If you wish to search the entire archive catalogue please use the search box above.
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Roderic O’Conor: Letters to Clive Bell
Letter regarding Sickert and the New English Art Club IE NGI/IA/OCO2/1/10
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Sir William Orpen: Letters to Grace Orpen
Sketch by William Orpen of the artist standing by a warm fire IE NGI/IA/ORP1/5/1/1/7/7/212
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Jack Butler Yeats: Early scrapbook
Jack Butler Yeats’s early scrapbook IE NGI/YA/Y1/JY/8/1
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Beatrice Esther (‘Bea’) Orpen: Sketches and life drawings
Man and women sitting IE NGI/IA/ORP2/2/1/13/10
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An Túr Gloine: Statements of accounts and Cash books
An Túr Gloine: Cash book 1902-1903 IE NGI/IA/TUR/1/3
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Sir Frederic William Burton: Invitations to events
Illustrated invitation sent from F. Carruthers Gould to Sir Frederic William Burton IE NGI/IA/BUR1/1/2/2/4
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Walter Frederick Osborne: Photographic Collection
Photograph of High street, Rye, East Sussex, England IE NGI/IA/OSB1/1/2/17
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Aloysius O'Kelly: Letter to his nephew
Envelope addressed to Mr. James Herbert IE NGI/IA/OKE1/2/35
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Anne Yeats: Theatre design sketchbooks
Anne Yeats (1919-2001), Costume design of The Crow for Austin Clarke's play As the Crow Flies, 1948. © Estate of Anne Yeats, DACS London/IVARO Dublin, 2021.
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Gerda J. Frömel: Studio photographs
Contact proof of nine black and white photographic negatives of Gerda Frömel IE NGI/IA/FRO1/1/7/1