ABBEY THEATRE AND NUI GALWAY JOIN FORCES

Date Published: 23-Oct-2012

Dublin’s Abbey Theatre and NUI Galway have launched a ground-breaking digital archive partnership

At the Abbey President Michael D. Higgins launched the largest digital theatre project ever undertaken

The Abbey archive, which contains over 1.8 million items, is one of the world’s most significant archival collections.

This digitisation project which began in September, will take place over a three to four year period.

The digitisation process, which is currently taking place on the NUI Galway campus, will bring together multidisciplinary teams of the University’s researchers, students and archivists