student engagement

conservator and archivist discuss treatment of damaged items

We are excited to announce the establishment of a newly equipped preservation laboratory dedicated to caring for UCC Library’s Special Collections and Archives. This project...

Student Exhibition, MA in History, HI6091 The Founding of the Dominican Priory According to the seventeenth-century historian, James Ware (1594-1666), the Dominican friars established their house in...

Dominican friar in his habit.

Student Exhibition, MA in Medieval History Since 2016 Special Collections has welcomed MA students from the School of History to engage with our collections through a...

Five men dancing and skipping. Detroit 1968. Color photograph by Alen MacWeeney.

Honoring Black History In honor of Black History Month—in North America observed in February—UCC Library’s Special Collections and Archives would like to highlight a group...

The outside of Meelick friary with gravestones in the foreground.

Student Exhibition, MA in Medieval History Meelick friary is located on the bank of the river Shannon, near the village of Eyrecourt, County Galway, in...

Tomb with saints carved into the stone. It is found in the grounds of Kilcullen friary.

Student Exhibition, MA in Medieval History Donatus Mooney (1577-1624), whose work is referenced in two other blog posts of this series on medieval Franciscan houses...

St Francis near birds.

Student Exhibition, MA in Medieval History Creevelea Franciscan friary is located near the river Bonet on the north-western side of the village of Dromahair in...

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...

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...

Student Exhibition, MA in Medieval History Images as Narratives: Mosaics in St Francis Church, Cork The figural mosaics in St Francis Church depict different scenes,...

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