Clifden Arts Festival Archive at UCD

Founded in 1977, the Clifden Arts Festival is the longest running community arts festival in Ireland. It has grown over time from a small community event to one of international importance. The substantial paper and digital archive resulting from the past 40 years of the Festival has been entrusted to University College Dublin, and is held under the care of UCD Library. Clifden Arts Festival and UCD are proud to be working in partnership to preserve this digital archive, and continue to build it up over time. We aim to capture and make available, only where permission is granted by the artists, as many of the Clifden Arts Festival's activities and events as possible.