| Collection Description | The Archives of Attic Press (BL/F/AP) were generated and collected by Róisín Conroy as
co-founder and publisher of Attic Press and as an activist in the Irish Women's movement.
They were deposited in the Boole Library, University College, Cork by Conroy in 1997.
The core sections of the collection relate to the activities of Conroy while working as a
librarian within the research unit of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union
(ITGWU), to Irish Feminist Information (IFI) and to Attic Press. There is also a small
amount of ancillary material. The collection therefore reflects the various facets of
Conroy's career as a librarian and information officer, publisher, disseminator or
information and campaigner for women's rights. The material dates from the early
seventies to the 1990s. [UCC Special Collections and Archives]
Overall this collection represents and
records the emergence of a coherent feminist movement in Ireland from the early 1970s.
In particular the files of Attic Press reflect in no small way the intellectual development of
that movement. |
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