File 8 - Local industry and Údarás na Gaeltachta

2 folders (c. 100 pp)

Folder 1/2 File of material relating to industry in Connemara in the mid to late 1980's.

Included are press cuttings reporting on Éisc Teoranta at Rossaveel, Arramara Teo (seaweed processing), a piece by Lorna Siggins 'A consumer's guide to the Gaeltacht'. Handwritten note of the Irish colleges operating in Connemara, and a letter in Irish from Coláistí na nOileán to Seosaifín de Róiste, O. S. providing some history and information about the current status of Irish colleges.

Letter from Seán de Cléir of Muintearas na nOileán giving some information on the convent at Tír-an-Fhia, and enclosing a drawing of the industrial estate at Tír-an-Fhia.

Press cutting from 1984 on the first and oldest co-operative in the Connemara Gaeltacht ceasing trading. Tim's handwritten notes on the co-ops in Connemara. A report prepared by the Comharchumann Forbartha na nOileán on a Community Education Project, a submission for grant aid to the Van Leer Foundation (August 1979). Ephemeral material, brochures relating to local businesses at Tír-an-Fhia.

Folder 2/2. Press cuttings reporting on the possibility that Údarás na Gaeltachta might be scrapped by government (undated). Notes on some of the businesses operating including a booklet produced by Elkay Precision Laboratory Consumables, Transduktor, handwritten notes on Múnlaí Teo. A letter from Jim Keogh of Údarás to Josephine Roche enclosing a map of the Casla Industrial Estate. Irish and English language brochures promoting Ireland's Gaeltacht as a location for Industry. A folder listing all the Údarás Factories, sent to Josephine Roche by John Keogh.

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P120/3/3/10/12 Press cuttings related to Arramara Teo

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