The digitisation of the Gate Theatre archive began on February 1, 2016 at the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway, and was completed in eighteen months. The digital archive includes 200,000 pages, 20,000 images, 150 hours of audio and 750 hours of video, representing a vast digital archive that documents the growth of the Gate Theatre from its founding year of 1928. The bulk of the archive relates to productions and administrative material from the 1950s onwards. The digital archive is available for use in the Archives and Special Collections Reading Room, Hardiman Library, at NUI Galway. For queries on access contact barry.houlihan@nuigalway.ie.


  1. I'll Go On, Barry McGovern
  2. Innocence the Life of Caravaggio, programme cover
  3. Jane Eyre, programme cover
  4. Les Liaisons Dangereuses, programme cover
  5. Romeo & Juliet, hand bill
  6. Salomé, cover
  7. Twelfth Night, press cutting
  8. Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Susan Fitzgerald
  9. Uncle Vanya Invatation
  10. Blithe Spirit, hand bill
  11. George Bernard Shaw
  12. I'll Go On, programme cover
  13. Juno and the Paycock
  14. Pygmalion, programme cover
  15. Waiting for Godot, Barry McGovern and Tom Hickey
  16. A Christmas Carol, programme cover
  17. A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde, programme cover
  18. Hedda Gabler stage management
  19. Innocence the Life of Caravaggio, poster
  20. Romeo and Juliet, Hilary Reynolds, Darragh Kelly
  21. The Importance of being Earnest, prop list