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Category Archives: Photographs
Portal to the Past – You’ll be surprised what you find in the Archives
Taking up from Emma Horgan’s post last week I’d like to introduce some of the thought-processes behind our choice of images. From past experience when I introduce the idea of what archival material is, some people can look blankly at … Continue reading
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Portal to the Past- Discover what you’ll find in the Archive
In a follow up to Elaine Harrington’s previous post, I will be examining in more detail, the first of the images from the archival collections, outlining why we chose them to be displayed on the wall. Firstly, the criteria underlying … Continue reading
Photography: evolution and interpretation
Special Collections has brought together material from UCC Library collections around the theme of photography to complement ‘Spectrum’, an exhibition of photographs by Stefania Sapio currently on display in the Boole Library. There is a selection of material from Special … Continue reading
Grand Designs from a Grand Tour
To complement the current exhibition in UCC Library – A Grand Tour, paintings by Geraldine O’Riordan – UCC Library Archives Service has organised a display of photographs of Bantry House, Bantry, Co. Cork. The photographs selected from the Bantry Estate Collection can be … Continue reading
