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Category Archives: Exhibitions
The Book of Kells: Image and Text / Introduction to the Book of Kells
Student Exhibition, MA in Medieval History Introduction to the Book of Kells The Book of Kells, Trinity College Dublin, MS 58, widely recognised as one of Ireland’s most significant medieval treasures, is a wonderful example of an Insular Gospel book. … Continue reading
The Book of Kells: Image and Text / Making Manuscripts
Student Exhibition, MA in Medieval History Making Manuscripts Medieval manuscripts were written by hand, the word ‘manuscript’ being derived from the Latin words ‘manu’ meaning ‘by hand’ and ‘scriptus’ meaning ‘written’. They were copied on parchment made from the skins … Continue reading
The Book of Kells: Image and Text / Introduction
Student Exhibition, MA in Medieval History, UCC Special Collections and HI6091: Skills for Medieval Historians Special Collections, UCC Library is delighted to welcome students engaging with our collections. We in Special Collections consider that this online exhibition on the Book … Continue reading
UCC’s Special Collections on Shush! Sounds from UCC Library
Recently I was asked to record a segment about UCC Library’s Special Collections for a music & library radio chat show: Shush! Sounds from UCC Library. The show is hosted by Martin O’Connor & Ronan Madden for UCC 98.3 FM Monday … Continue reading
Curating ‘Cervantes “Prince of Wits” (1616-2016): Life, Work Legacy’
The River-side welcomes this guest post from Dr Stephen Boyd, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies on his experience curating the exhibition Cervantes “Prince of Wits” (1616-2016): Life, Work Legacy.’ I hope that this post which recounts and reflects on … Continue reading
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Tagged Cervantes, Copyright, Curation, exhibition, Images, Printed books, Stephen Boyd
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Cervantes ‘Prince of Wits’: A Printed Legacy
This year we celebrate the 400th anniversaries of the deaths of two literary geniuses: Shakespeare (died 3 May 1616 in Stratford-upon-Avon) and Cervantes (died 22 April 1616 in Madrid). To mark Cervantes’ anniversary UCC Library in conjunction with the Dept. … Continue reading
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Tagged Cervantes, Hiram Morgan, Printed books, Stephen Boyd, UCC Library, William Cooke
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Eoin MacNeill: Easter Rising 1916
Earlier this year a handwritten letter by Commander Eoin MacNeill (Chief-of-Staff of the Irish Volunteers) was donated to UCC Library. This letter, dated 19th April 1916, signed by MacNeill and addressed to Mrs. McKean, was a cover letter to an enclosed … Continue reading
Mountaineering: Being On Top of the World
In 1856 a British team calculated the height of Mt Everest as 29,002 feet (8,848 metres) above sea level. 2016 marks the 160th anniversary of this calculation and until mid-April there is a display on mountaineering on Q floor, Boole Library. … Continue reading
The Ó Longáin Family of Scribes & Their World of Manuscripts
To complement the Ó Longáin Conference recently held in UCC by the Department of Modern Irish / Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, material from manuscript and printed collections was selected for display cases in the Rare Books Reading Room in UCC Library’s Special … Continue reading
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Tagged Cork, exhibition, Irish language, manuscript, O Longain
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Summer Reading
When the summer comes I like to think of what I can read – not what I should be reading but what I want to read. Genre fiction comes to mind: science fiction, fantasy, crime and detection. In an exhibition … Continue reading
