special collections

The ruined Abbey of Dromohair in Co Leitrim.

Student Exhibition, MA in Medieval History Special Collections is delighted to welcome the School of History students engaging with our collections through a series of...

Typical Irish letter in the style of the Book of Kells

As part of the programming for the recent International Women’s Day and Seachtain na Gaeilge event Guthanna na mBan: Comhdháil ar Mhná na hAthbheochana (Voices of...

Welcome to the first post in a new series of blog posts: … from The River-side. This series will tie into the themed displays on...

Word cloud of words used in recipes.

The River-side welcomes this guest post from Cara Long and David Leen, student workers with the Academic Communication and Technology team in UCC Library. Cara...

View of Crosshaven in Co Cork on an old postcard.

The River-side welcomes this guest post from Kian O’Mahony, a student on the 2021/2022 MA in History in UCC, that includes the HI6063: Work Placement and Portfolio module. Kian spent...

Selection of images showing the baking process.

Pi and Pi Day Pi is often represented by the lower-case Greek letter π and it is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its...

UCC Library’s Special Collections & Archives has rich Irish language collections including: These collections stand along-side fine printing of Irish language and literature books and...

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...

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...

The Riverside welcomes this guest post from Úna Faller who in summer 2021 undertook an online work placement in Special Collections using digital surrogates of...

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