The following excerpt is from a February 3, 2015 announcement at the University College Dublin website:
The incorporation of the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), a new University College Dublin (UCD) spin-out company with charitable status, was announced today.
The company has been established, with the support of UCD’s technology transfer and enterprise development team at NovaUCD, to preserve, protect and promote Ireland’s National Folklore Collection.
UCD is a custodian of many collections of cultural, artistic and scientific significance, including the National Folklore Collection, which it holds in trust for the people of Ireland.
The National Folklore Collection at UCD is a unique collection of Ireland’s folklore heritage and is one of the largest folklore collections in the world. It was inherited from the Irish Folklore Commission in 1970 whose mission it continues through the expansion of the collection.
The collection runs to 3 million pages in manuscript form and represents the voices of 100,000 contributors, including 10,000 hours of audio recordings, 70,000 photographs and 1,000 hours of moving images.
Thanks to Dr. Jane Lyons for the heads-up.
