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#ColourOurCollections: Introduction
What is #ColourOurCollections? Colour Our Collections is an annual international colouring festival on social media where libraries, museums, archives and other cultural institutions share free colouring content featuring images from their collections. It was launched by The New York Academy of Medicine Library in … Continue reading
Posted in Special Collections & Archives
Tagged #ColorOurCollections, #ColourOurCollections, Architecture, archival collections, Archives, Bantry Estate Ancillary Collection, Bantry Estate Collection, botany, Cartographic Visual Collection, cartography, country scenes, Friedlander Collection, Hawtin Collection, Irish History, Irish literature, manuscript, maps, Older Printed Books Collection, political prints, Printed books, satire, sketches, special collections, UCC Library
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Cork Motor Derby 1938
As many archivists will tell you, there is nothing like the feeling of discovering a new item or collection in the archive that really excites you. My latest such example of this professional rush came when I was formally accepting … Continue reading
Posted in Archives Service, New Acquistions, New Collections
Tagged Archives, Archivist, Archivist Blogs, Bugatti, Cars, Cork, Cork Motor Racing, F1, Formula 1, History, Irish Car Racing, Irish History, Local History, Maserati, Mercedes Benz, Motor blogging, Munster, Munster Racing, UCC, UCC Library, UCC Library Archives Service, Vintage Cars
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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
