- The Arts Council in the 1950s
- 1952 The Arts Council – first meetings and first grant (£500)
- 1952 A cultural centre in the Rotunda buildings
- 1953 All Ireland Amateur Drama Festival
- 1954 Longford Productions – ‘to give the people of Ireland the best drama’
- 1954 ‘To bring the arts to the people’ – halls in rural areas
- 1954 To encourage the purchase of paintings by Irish artists
- 1955 The restoration of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham
- 1955 Supporting the artist – Gerard Dillon / George Campbell
- 1955 Hugh Lane and his pictures: the campaign to return the Lane pictures
- 1955 The Haverty Trust Exhibition – the first Arts Council touring exhibition
- 1956 From bus shelters to lamp cowls – design and the city
- 1956 ‘A proper institute for the development of the arts’ – 70 Merrion Square
- 1957 Irish Industrial Development – a mural for the International Labour Office
- 1958 Supporting Irish participation at the Biennale exhibition, Venice
- 1959 Implementing the Arts Act – the Director’s Report
- The Arts Council in the 1960s
- 1960 Dolmen Press: the publication of works of literature in Ireland
- 1960 The origins of tax exemption for artists
- 1961 Art USA now: It draws the crowds
- 1963 The John F. Kennedy Memorial Concert Hall
- 1964 Graphic Art Exhibition
- 1965 Cuimhneachán 1916: the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising
- 1966 ‘Assisting students of revolutionary tendency’
- 1967 Focus Theatre
- 1967 Limerick Music Association
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