The Irish Film Archive is part of the

Irish Film Institute The Irish Film Institute (IFI; ), formerly the Irish Film Centre, is both an arthouse cinema and a national body that supports Irish film heritage. The IFI presents film festivals, retrospectives and curated seasons, along with independent, ...

(formed in 1943, incorporated in 1945) the body charged with the promotion and preservation of film culture in Ireland. It collects, preserves and makes accessible Ireland's moving image heritage. It is the leading resource for students of Irish film and film history. Its collection includes 20,000 cans of film, 5,000 tapes, the Tiernan MacBride reference library and over 30,000 stills, posters and documents. The collection reflects Irish film production for over a century, with material from 1897 to the present day held in climate controlled vaults in Dublin's cultural quarter, Temple Bar. The collection incorporates fiction, features,

public information film Public information films (PIFs) are a series of government-commissioned short films, shown during television advertising breaks in the United Kingdom. The name is sometimes also applied, ''faute de mieux'', to similar films from other countries, ...

s, amateur material, documentaries, newsreels, experimental film and animation Regular screenings of material from the collections are held at the Irish Film Institute and at other venues in Ireland and abroad. The Archive also facilitates national and international non-competitive festivals showing Irish film and curates the IFI International touring programme of Irish film.
IFI International Retrieved: 2012-08-12. It is a resource for those interested in Ireland's film heritage and is used regularly by academics, students, teachers, film-makers, researchers, film enthusiasts and the general public. The Archive is a member of

The International Federation of Film Archives The International Federation of Film Archives (french: Fédération internationale des archives du film, FIAF) was founded in Paris in 1938 by the Cinémathèque Française, the Reichsfilmarchiv in Berlin, the British Film Institute and the Museum ...

(FIAF).

Collection

There are a lot of films, Irish history, older programmes and adverts on film. Among the old adverts are for

Club Orange Club is the brand name for a series of Irish carbonated soft drinks produced in Ireland by Britvic Ireland and previously by Cantrell & Cochrane (C&C). It is bottled by the Britvic plant in Dublin. The series includes Club Orange, Club Lemon, ...

, Penny's,

Jacob's Jacob's is a brand name for several lines of biscuits and crackers in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. The brand name is owned by the Jacob Fruitfield Food Group, part of Valeo Foods, which produces snacks for the Irish market. ...

HB Ice Cream HB Ice Cream (originally an initialisation of both Hughes Brothers and Hazelbrook Farm) is an ice cream brand in Ireland and is part of the Unilever Group's Heartbrand ice cream brand. It manufactures most of the Heartbrand's ice cream range, as w ...

and

Allied Irish Bank Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. is one of the so-called Big Four commercial banks in Ireland. AIB offers a full range of personal, business and corporate banking services. The bank also offers a range of general insurance products such as home, trav ...

that were shown during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. There is old Irish history from through the years what events shaped the whole island of Ireland of course from late 19th or early 20th century on words some older programmes shown on

RTÉ (RTÉ) (; Irish language, Irish for "Radio & Television of Ireland") is the Public broadcaster, national broadcaster of Republic of Ireland, Ireland headquartered in Dublin. It both produces and broadcasts programmes on RTÉ Television, telev ...

are available on it from 1960s and 1970s decades and celebrations. There is a television advert for Avonmore Milk with the first television appearance of

Miriam O'Callaghan Miriam O'Callaghan (born 6 January 1960) is an Irish television current affairs presenter with RTÉ. O'Callaghan has presented '' Prime Time'' since 1996, and her own summer talk show, ''Saturday Night with Miriam'', from 2005 onwards. In th ...

from the early 1980s. Most RTE programmes between 1961 and March 6, 1985 including Weather, News, The Angelus and clips will be online from December 2021 to celebrate 60 years of television in Ireland.

References

External links

IFA website
Film archives in the Republic of Ireland FIAF-affiliated institutions {{film-org-stub