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Later Career and Life
After leaving the directorship of the NLI, Pat Donlon was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University, in Belfast. While there, she wrote a history on children's literature in Ireland. In 1997, she won the Annual Children's Books Ireland Award, from the Children's Literature Association of Ireland (formed by the merger of the Children's Literature Association of Ireland, which she helped to found in 1986, and the Irish Children's Book Trust).

Donlon was also selected as a judge for the 1998/99 Irish Literature Prizes.

In 2000, Dr. Pat Donlon was appointed to the Heritage Council by the then Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, Ms de Valera.

In 2007, Pat Donlon became Director of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, an artists' retreat in Co. Monaghan. During her time there, she created ArtLog, a digital archive that records the creative processes of the artists based at the Centre. Donlon recognized that in today's artistic scene, the public often only receives the finished artwork, without the chance to perceive the creative process of the artist, which leads to the development of a certain type of artwork. Through collaboration with the Digital Media Centre in Dublin, ArtLog enables artists-in-residence to document their imaginative concepts, recording and conserving artistic thought for future generations. Pat Donlon retired as Director of the Centre in 2011, after having overseen the expansion of the facility with the addition of thee new studios and improved services and comforts.

In 2017/18, Pat Donlon participated in the third edition of the Phelim Donlon Playwright's Bursary and Residency for emerging writers. The bursary was established by the Irish Theatre Institute (ITI) in partnership with the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in 2015/2016, to honour the memory of Phelim Donlon, former Drama Officer in the Arts Council, dedicated member of the ITI and Donlon's husband. She presented the bursary and sat on the panel that successfully selected Amy Conroy, Artistic Director, as the winner.