- 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...
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...
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...
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...
- 10 years Ago
On the 25th of October 1849, 165 years ago, George Boole F.R.S (1815 -1864) wrote his first letter home to Lincoln, England from his new...
This is a translation of “Cleachtaí agus Fotharaga na Nollag”. The hustle and bustle of Christmas today derives primarily from the impact of the Victorian...
A translation of this post is the ‘Hustle and Bustle of Christmas’. Cleachtaí agus Fotharaga na Nollag sa lá atá inniu ann, eascraíonn siad cuid mhaith...
Special Collections has material relating to Georgian architecture and in particular the activities of The Irish Georgian Society on display in the Boole Library, UCC. This...
