- Elaine Harrington
- 9 years Ago
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...
- Emer Twomey
- 10 years Ago
Not many of us can say we can trace our family back to the same home for the last 800 years but 2015 marks this very special...
When the summer comes I like to think of what I can read – not what I should be reading but what I want to...
- Elaine Harrington
- 10 years Ago
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...
- Breeda Herlihy
- 10 years Ago
Through the George Boole Papers held in UCC Library, we get a great insight into life of an academic living in Cork in the nineteenth...
“Ne m’oubliez pas – forget-me-not” Held within the George Boole Papers at UCC Library there is a letter (BP/1/267) from an unidentified former student from...
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...
George Boole did not always manage to spend Christmas with family during his time in Cork. Often the College holidays did not allow enough time for...
- Elaine Harrington
- 10 years Ago
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...
- codoibhlin
- 10 years Ago
George Boole died in Cork on the 8th December 1864 following a short illness. On the 24th November 1864 Boole was caught in heavy rain...