Special Collections & Archives

Alen MacWeeney’s Northern Ireland photographs  written by Chiara Alessio Alen MacWeeney Collection The Northern Ireland series, shot by Irish contemporary photographer Alen MacWeeney (born 1939),...

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...

Following on from Elaine’s post yesterday, I am going to discuss two items I selected from our Cartographic Visual Collection for use in our #ColourOurCollections...

“Following on from John’s post yesterday, I am going to discuss a page I selected from the Elizabeth Friedlander Collection for use in our #ColourOurCollections colouring book.” When it...

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...

This highlights additional original George Boole material or Boole-related information that forms part of George Boole archives at UCC Library.

This year Special Collections & Archives took part in UCC’s Community Week #MakingWaves. Community Week is a week long programme of free public events celebrating...

This is the final blog post in the series about the new wall design outside Special Collections & Archives. Over the last few weeks Emer,...

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...

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,...