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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Archives Diary: Pamela Frankau Papers
Many of the author manuscript collections in the Burns Library are those of writers who need little introduction. Well-known examples include Rex Stout, Hilaire Belloc, Graham Greene, Francis Thompson, Thomas Merton, Samuel Beckett, Flann O’Brien, William Butler Yeats, among many … Continue reading
Reading Room Log: Honoring the Humanities
With the Boston College Arts Festival set to begin this Thursday, April 26th, the Burns Library is celebrating the humanities with a new set of images on Flickr. We honor the great tradition of humanities lectures and explorations during the history of … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, Flickr Sets, Staff Posts, Student Posts
Tagged Arts Festival Humanities Series Celebration, Father Sweeney Boston Colelge, Humanities Series, Humanities Series - Director's Records, Humanities Series Father Sweeney, Humanities Series John J. Burns Library, Margaret Mead, Maya Angelou, Seamus Heaney, T. S. Eliot
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Archives Diary: B.C. Track in the Early 20th Century
Boston College has long been known for its athletic teams and their accomplishments. Be it the football team’s success over the years in Bowl games, the men’s NCAA hockey championships or the baseball team’s participation in the longest NCAA baseball … Continue reading
Exhibitions Update: The Story Behind Rural Ireland
Ireland, like many other places on the globe, has its own hidden spaces, those lacunae that escape the official record. Millions of people were born, grew up, worked, and were waked in humble rural cottages, spaces lost to posterity because … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits & Events, Featured Collections & Books, Student Posts
Tagged burns blog mcmullen exhibit, erskine nicol rural ireland boston college, john j. burns library blog, mcmullen museum, rural ireland boston college, rural ireland burns blog, rural ireland burns mcmullen, rural ireland inside story
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Exhibitions Update: Precious Poems in Precious Packaging
Every January the Boston College Libraries hosts educational sessions for its library staff. The sessions cover a variety of topics that keep us abreast of the latest procedures in the library world in general and focus on what our own … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits & Events, Featured Collections & Books, Staff Posts
Tagged Burns blog, irish poets traffic street press burns library, irish studies traffic street boston college, o'neill burns exhibits, o'neill reading room exhibits, o'neill reading room traffic street press exhibit, precious poems o'neill burns exhibit, traffic street press exhibit
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