About the College Student Registers
The College Student Registers form one of the Special Collections of the National Irish Visual Arts Library. The Registers comprise 150 ledgers dating from 1877 to 1986, spanning the complete history of the Dublin Metropolitan School (1877 - 1936) and the first fifty years of the National College of Art and Design (1936 - 1986).
These records are mainly in bound volume format with some class attendance registers in 'notebook' format. There are approximately 20,000 named individuals and these are a unique record of Irish artists and designers. Entries are alphabetical and provide details such as name, age, occupation, address, class number, registration number and fees paid. The records also contain important social and demographic information.
Following the Royal Dublin Society's indexation of the period prior to 1877 entitled The Dublin Society Drawing Schools - Students and Award Winners, 1746 - 1876, this project was intended to exploit a significant resource and greatly enhance the research and understanding of Irish art and design.
About the College Registers DatabaseIn 2005, the Library completed a project to index and digitise the Student Registers and to establish a searchable database of the collection. This project was carried out by Eneclann, Ltd., an archives and records management company, and was funded by the National College of Art & Design and The Heritage Council.
Indexing these registers on a database has made it possible to store the originals in appropriate packing materials and environmental conditions. In accordance with preservation standards, the collection is being housed temporarily in an external archive storage facility. Once suitable climate-controlled storage conditions have been established in the National College of Art & Design, the registers will be returned to the National Irish Visual Arts Library.
©2006 National Irish Visual Arts Library, National College of Art & Design
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