Folklore archive is there for all to see

IN your feature article headlined ‘There is a touch of the seanchaí in us all’ (September 23), we note that storyteller Batt Burns mentions “a fabulous collection of stories… ”

He says it is “a shame” that many of these are currently gathering dust at the National Folklore archives at University College Dublin.

In fact, the archive is open to the public, Monday to Friday, 2.30pm-5.30pm. As well as this, copies of the Schools Manuscripts Collection were made available to county libraries across the country many years ago.