IFA library archive to attract world’s scholars

THE Irish Farmers Association millennium library and archive, officially opened in the Country Life Museum, a branch of the National Museum of Ireland, at Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co Mayo, yesterday, will be a centre for study and research by national and international scholars.

Arts, Sports and Tourism Minister John O'Donoghue formally opened the 100,000 project, developed in association with the Millennium Committee and the National Museum.

It consists of 3,000 books, 1,200 journals, 600 boxes of paper resources, 35,000 images and 1,000 prints, as well as drawings, maps and a National Museum video collection of largely extinct folklife practices.