Muintir na Tíre's financial and governance records
In my last
blog I wrote about the various stages of work that an archivist does in
preparing a collection to make it accessible in the reading room. Having
completed the arrangement (almost) I have now started describing the
collection. These descriptions will provide researchers with sign posts to what
is contained in a file or bound volume.
The material I have been cataloguing in the collection so
far has been mainly financial records and governance records of Muintir na
Tíre. The financial records of Muintir na Tíre contain various ledgers detailing
membership, income and expenditure, annual reports and petty cash books. The
annual reports of Muintir na Tíre date back as far as 1945. Below is an example
of the annual report from 1974. These records provide a great understanding of
the financial position of Muintir na Tíre throughout its history.
The ledgers dealing with membership provide us with the
details of the guilds and community councils who registered as members with
Muintir na Tíre. The Guild’s Ledgers contain information on the subscriptions
that guilds had for Landmark. Below is an example of this. All
this valuable information provides us with evidence of the number of
guilds/community councils that were members of Muintir na Tíre down through the
years. We can ascertain the history of guilds/community councils for the last
80 years from these records as well.
A constitution has been used as the governing method of Muintir
na Tíre since its foundation. The constitution has been amended over the years
to reflect the development and different ways of working of Muintir na Tíre. In
1996, Muintir na Tíre became a Company Limited by Guarantee and now has a
memorandum of understanding and articles of association. They developed guidelines
on setting up a community council and they provided a template for the constitution
they required if setting up the council as a company limited by guarantee. Examples
of some of the constitutions is provided below.
We also get an understanding of the election process in
Muintir na Tíre. The Honorary Returning Officer was a busy person organising
and managing the election process from the nominations to confirming the names
of those elected. We see the variety of individual who were nominated and got
involved in the National Council.
Finally,
we also get an understanding of the decisions made by the National Council of Muintir
na Tíre. The minutes of the National Executive committee meetings provide the eveidence
of the decisions made by the leadership of Muintir na Tíre down through the
years. They also show the many discussions that took place on various issues
that faced Muintir na Tíre and the many projects they got involved in.
These records provide us with the evidence of how Muintir na
Tíre was governed over its 80 year history. The descriptions for these records have
been written and while you have to wait until the collection as a whole is catalogued
before they are available for consultation, you can start thinking about how
you can use this wonderful collection for your research purposes.
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