File (An organized unit of documents grouped together either for current use by the creator or in the process of archival arrangement, because they relate to the same subject, activity, or transaction. A file is usually the basic unit within a record series).
Extent Medium
113 items
Context
Creator(s): Byrne, Joan, 1929-2017
Administrative History ↴
Dr. Joan Byrne (1929 - 3 November 2017) was was raised in Ballymurphy, Co Carlow and educated in St Mary's College in Arklow. She subsequently became a microbiologist and worked at the Medical Research Council from the 1950s onwards, which at that time was based in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and it was at TCD that she completed her PhD in microbiology in 1971. Dr. Byrne continued working at the Council until her lab closed c.1990.
Dr. Byrne was for many years Honorary Secretary of the Irish Film Society (IFS). The IFS sponsored a prize in the Cork International Film Festival and Byrne was a regular attendee and on that judging committee in the 1960s-1970s.
Dr. Byrne was extremely active in many other spheres: in the Irish Federation of University Teachers, where she was equality officer during the late 1980s / early 1990s. She played Scrabble competitively with the All-Ireland Scrabble Association and was also involved in a range of other interests including the RDS (Royal Dublin Society), the Wexford Opera Festival, Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne (she spoke Irish and several other languages fluently), Cumann Merrimann, the Byrne-Perry Summer School, the Irish Chinese Cultural Society etc. She was also an intrepid traveller, covering most of western Europe in the 1950s, eastern Europe in the 1960s, and the rest of the world in the next three decades. She died on November 3rd 2017.
This information kindly supplied by the Executor of the Estate of Dr. Joan Byrne.
Archival History ↴
The Dr. Joan Byrne Collection came to the library in 2019 via a donation of printed material of the Cork International Film Festival from the Executor of the Estate of the late Joan Byrne.
Immediate Source Acquisition ↴
Donation
Content & Structure
Scope & Content: Byrne, Joan, 1929-2017 ↴
The collection contains delegates lists, jury lists, photographs, programmes, newspaper cuttings, film brochures, letters to Byrne and other ephemera relating to the Cork International Film Festival from the late 1950s to late 1980s.
Appraisal Destruction ↴
Permanent Retention
Accruals ↴
No Further Additions Expected
Arrangement ↴
No arrangement has been imposed on the collection by the listing archivist in order to preserve the (presumed) filing system used by Dr. Byrne. Files contain a mix of all types of material, unrelated perhaps to other material in the file, and in no obvious date order.
Conditions of Access & Use
Access Conditions
Available by appointment with Special Collections and Archives to holders of UCC Readers tickets.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Subject to University College Cork Special Collections and Archives’ Reading Room terms of membership and in accordance with copyright legislation.
Creation Dates
1958 - 1987
Level of Description
File (An organized unit of documents grouped together either for current use by the creator or in the process of archival arrangement, because they relate to the same subject, activity, or transaction. A file is usually the basic unit within a record series).
