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Tag Archives: UCC Library
Pi Day and Historical Recipes
Pi and Pi Day Pi is often represented by the lower-case Greek letter π and it is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Pi is an irrational number (a decimal with no end and no repeating … Continue reading
Posted in Special Collections
Tagged baking, manuscript recipe books, pi day, recipe books, recipes, Scalar, special collections, UCC Library
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Seachtain na Gaeilge: Irish Language Manuscript Collections at UCC Library
UCC Library’s Special Collections & Archives has rich Irish language collections including: The personal book collection of 20th century professor of Irish at UCC: Prof. Tadhg O Donnchadha also known as Torna. Items in Irish from the Older Printed Books … Continue reading
Posted in Special Collections
Tagged age, binding, Canon Power, Cohalan, content, Cork, Decoration, Irish language, Lyons, manuscripts, Murphy Collection, O Donnchu, provenance, scribe, Seachtain na Gaeilge, size, special collections, Torna, Tradition, UCC, UCC Library
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#ColorOurCollections’: Images from the Archives
When my colleague Elaine Harrington proposed UCC Library’s Special Collections & Archives contribute to the #ColourOurCollections colouring festival I wondered what would work from the archival collections. When you hear “archives” do you automatically think “old stuff…like letters”. These are … Continue reading
#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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George Boole: Academic, Author, Husband and Father
This highlights additional original George Boole material or Boole-related information that forms part of George Boole archives at UCC Library. Continue reading
Posted in Archives Service, Special Collections & Archives
Tagged archival collections, Archives, Cork, Father, George Boole, George Boole 200, Logic, Mary Everest Boole, Mathematics, Mother, Purcells Commercial Cork Almanac, Royal Irish Academy, Sir Geoffrey Taylor, The Laws of Thought, The Papers of George Boole, UCC Library, UCC Library Archives Service
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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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1972: Ireland Votes For Change
On the 11th October 2017, Emeritus Professor J.J. Lee launched UCC Library’s latest exhibition 1972:Ireland Votes For Change. The exhibition, curated by Emer Twomey and Emma Horgan (Archivists, UCC Library) marks the donation of the Neville Keery Collection to University … Continue reading
Theses 1000
This week the UCC institutional repository, CORA has reached a milestone moment surpassing 1,000 doctoral thesis records. Since Autumn 2013, doctoral candidates have been required to submit their thesis record and abstract to CORA therefore the bulk of our collection … 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
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
Posted in Exhibitions, Special Collections
Tagged Cervantes, Hiram Morgan, Printed books, Stephen Boyd, UCC Library, William Cooke
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