Tag Archives: Printed books

National Library Week – Day 6

Posted on November 21, 2015 by Elaine Harrington

This Reading Life: Fergal Gaynor For each of the seven days of National Library Week 2015 the River-side blog will host responses from a group of seven contributors who were asked to nominate seven ‘formative’ books. The project is curated by … Continue reading →

Posted in National Library Week | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

National Library Week – Day 5

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Elaine Harrington

This Reading Life: Sheila Mannix For each of the seven days of National Library Week 2015 the River-side blog will host responses from a group of seven contributors who were asked to nominate seven ‘formative’ books. The project is curated by Fergal … Continue reading →

Posted in National Library Week | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

National Library Week – Day 4

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Elaine Harrington

This Reading Life: Raymond Deane For each of the seven days of National Library Week 2015 the River-side blog will host responses from a group of seven contributors who were asked to nominate seven ‘formative’ books. The project is curated by … Continue reading →

Posted in National Library Week | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

National Library Week – Day 3

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Elaine Harrington

This Reading Life: Paul Tiernan For each of the seven days of National Library Week 2015 the River-side blog will host responses from a group of seven contributors who were asked to nominate seven ‘formative’ books. The project is curated by … Continue reading →

Posted in National Library Week | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

National Library Week – Day 2

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Elaine Harrington

This Reading Life: Trevor Joyce For each of the seven days of National Library Week 2015 the River-side blog will host responses from a group of seven contributors who were asked to nominate seven ‘formative’ books. The project is curated by … Continue reading →

Posted in National Library Week | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

National Library Week – Day 1

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Elaine Harrington

This Reading Life: Judy Kravis For each of the seven days of National Library Week 2015 the River-side blog will host responses from a group of seven contributors who were asked to nominate seven ‘formative’ books. The project is curated by … Continue reading →

Posted in National Library Week | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

This Reading Life: A Project for National Library Week (16-22 Nov 2015)

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Emer Twomey

Curated by Fergal Gaynor For each of the seven days of National Library Week 2015 the River-side blog will host responses from a group of seven contributors who were asked to nominate seven ‘formative’ books. The following text presents the … Continue reading →

Posted in National Library Week | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Summer Reading

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Elaine Harrington

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 →

Posted in Exhibitions, Special Collections | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Elaine Harrington

I’m interested in what can fill an exhibition case as a stand-alone display. I was recently watching Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and prompted me to think what of Tolkien’s work was in Special Collections and general collections. … Continue reading →

Posted in Exhibitions, Special Collections | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Which Circle of Hell? The Textual Journey Through Dante’s Inferno

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Elaine Harrington

To complement the current exhibition in UCC Library, Dante Alighieri Inferno: A Suite of Lithographs by Liam Ó Broin, Special Collections has organised a selection of material from the collections and on loan from the Department of Italian. Material in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Exhibitions, Special Collections | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment