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...

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...

If you’re interested in Poe, Bram Stoker or Le Fanu consider All Things Gothic. If you’re interested in ‘The Dance of Death’ consider ‘La Danse Macabre‘....

To complement the Ó Longáin Conference recently held in UCC by the Department of Modern Irish / Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, material from manuscript and printed collections...

When the summer comes I like to think of what I can read – not what I should be reading but what I want to...

The River-side welcomes Garret Cahill’s guest post on Thomas O’Brien Butler and RMS Lusitania.  Countless users of the Special Collections in the Boole Library are familiar...

The British Library’s exhibition on Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination continues until mid-January. Special Collections in UCC Library lent The Orphan of The Rhine...

Title page to 'The Orphan of the Rhine'.

Special Collections in UCC Library was approached by the British Library in late 2013 regarding the possibility of a loan for their then-upcoming exhibition: Terror...

Stylized black dragon on a green binding.

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...

Bust of Dante's head with 'Dante' written on his torso.

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...

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