This guest post was written by Hannah Lynch. Hannah is a project Archivist and was contracted by the Library to fully list, and make available,...
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...
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...
To mark the launch of George Boole 200 at UCC we have selected from UCC Library Archives one of the first letters written by Boole from...
On the 25th of October 1849, 165 years ago, George Boole (1815 -1864) wrote his first letter home to Lincoln from his new place of...
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...
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...
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...
