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- Mapping Cork: Trade, Culture and Politics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Ireland / A Safe Harbour for Ships
- Mapping Cork: Trade, Culture and Politics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Ireland / From Rivers to Roads
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Mapping Cork: Trade, Culture and Politics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Ireland / Mass on the Marsh
Student Exhibition, MA in Medieval History Mapping Cork: Mass on the Marsh The Civitates map of Cork names six churches and two abbeys, which are indicated as important features, reflecting the significance of these locations in medieval and early modern … Continue reading
Mapping Cork: Trade, Culture and Politics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Ireland / A Safe Harbour for Ships
Student Exhibition, MA in Medieval History Mapping Cork: A Safe Harbour for Ships The city’s motto, ‘A safe harbour for ships’ (Latin: ‘Statio bene fida carinis‘) marks Cork harbour as a secure anchorage, with maritime trade that was a jealously … Continue reading
Mapping Cork: Trade, Culture and Politics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Ireland / From Rivers to Roads
Student Exhibition, MA in Medieval History Mapping Cork: From Rivers to Roads Like other Irish cities represented in the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cork was established as a harbour at the mouth of a river. However, more than these cities, Cork … Continue reading
Mapping Cork: Trade, Culture and Politics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Ireland / Fashion and Rags
Student Exhibition, MA in Medieval History Mapping Cork: Fashion and Rags The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was a carefully thought-out tool to inform the reader about the chief cities of the known world, where individual pages were constructed from existing maps … Continue reading
Mapping Cork: Trade, Culture and Politics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Ireland / Representing Ireland in Maps Before the Civitates Orbis Terrarum
Student Exhibition, MA in Medieval History Mapping Cork: Representing Ireland in Maps before the Civitates Orbis Terrarum: Ortelius and English Colonial Perspectives The pioneering cartographer Abraham Ortelius asserted: ‘Historiae oculus geographia’ (meaning that ‘geography is the eye of history’). His … Continue reading
Mapping Cork: Trade, Culture and Politics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Ireland / Introduction
Student Exhibition, MA in Medieval History Introduction: MA in Medieval History, HI6091 Module and Special Collections at University College Cork Special Collections is delighted to welcome the School of History students engaging with our collections through a series of online … Continue reading
Book History and Provenance in the Green Coat School Collection
The Green Coat School Collection is now held in UCC Library but was originally formed in Cork City during the 18th century under the aegis of the Green Coat School trustees. The Green Coat School, also known as ‘Shandon Charity … Continue reading
Community Week: Ye Olde Social Media
This year Special Collections & Archives took part in UCC’s Community Week #MakingWaves. Community Week is a week long programme of free public events celebrating community engagement with UCC across our campus and beyond. During the year groups and communities … Continue reading
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Tagged apps, archival collections, blogging, cartography, Community Week, decree, Google Maps, graphic design, Instagram, maps, news, pinterest, playbill advertising, popup advertising, postcards, social media, special collections, Twitter, UCC
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Portal to the Past: You’ll Be Surprised By What You’ll Find! The Special Collections Edition!
This is the final blog post in the series about the new wall design outside Special Collections & Archives. Over the last few weeks Emer, Emma and I have tried to dispell notions of what people think of may be … Continue reading
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Tagged bookplates, coded letters, collections, Cork, Cork harbour, County Cork, cryptography, digitised collections, display, endpapers, exhibition, graphic design, Irish language, manuscripts, maps, Music, Portal to the Past, Printed books, special collections, visual, wax cylinders
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Portal to the Past! You’ll Be Surprised By What Can Find!
Have you spotted the new wall design outside Special Collections & Archives? In an age where people use and rely on the web and digital content we wanted to show we are more than old text-based documents or old and … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising label, archival collections, bookmarks, bookplates, business archives, collections, graphic design, landed estates, manuscripts, maps, notepaper, Photographs, Portal to the Past, postcards, Printed books, sketchbooks, special collections, visual
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