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Category Archives: Art at the Burns Library
Archives Diary: The Making of the John Boyle O’Reilly Memorial
The Boston College University Libraries have digitized the James Jeffrey Roche Letters. This Burns Library collection is now available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1119 as part of Boston College University Libraries Digital Collections. Roche (1870 – 1908) was an Irish born journalist who edited The Pilot, starting … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, Art at the Burns Library, Digital Projects, Staff Posts, Student Posts
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Exhibitions Update: Eva McKee, Irish Artisan
In the month of March, the feast of Saint Patrick and Women’s History Month are celebrated. Of the four Irish exhibits currently on display in the Boston College Libraries, one in particular – Eva McKee, Irish Artisan, highlights both of these themes. Eva … Continue reading
Cataloger’s Corner: Thompson Room Makeover
This month, we’re welcoming you back on campus with posts about various projects – from cataloging to sesquicentennial research and collections processing – that we have been working on during the summer. This post features a new permanent exhibit of … Continue reading
Posted in Art at the Burns Library, B. C. History, Featured Collections & Books, Student Posts
Tagged boston college francis thompson, british catholic authors burns library, burns blog francis thompson, connolly thompson collection, francis thompson, special collections francis thompson
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Exhibitions Update: Irish Interior – Soul, Mind and Heart at the Beginning of a New Century
“The Catholic Book Bulletin which we launch today will be concerned primarily with recommending Catholic literature, and promoting its distribution. It will not only indicate approved books, but systematically review them as occasion arises; and further it will pioneer a … Continue reading
Semester in Review: Burns Blog Fall 2011
Dear Burns Library Blog Readers, It’s the end of another great semester here at Boston College and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for reading the John J. Burns Library’s blog this semester and to review the … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, Art at the Burns Library, Blog in Review, Conservation, Exhibits & Events, Featured Collections & Books, Flickr Sets, Staff Posts, Student Posts, University Archives
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Exhibitions Update: Burst the Heart Open
The Boston College Center for Irish Programs and the Boston College Libraries extend a warm invitation to the exhibition of Irish paintings entitled Burst the Heart Open, showing at the John J. Burns Library at Boston College. Sponsored by Culture … Continue reading
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Tagged burns blog burst the heart open, burns library irish, burns library irish paintings, burst the heart open exhibit burns library, burst the heart open office of public works ireland burns library, irish studies boston college burns library
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Archives Diary: Splendor of Form in Richard King’s Stained Glass Windows
Irish artist Richard J. King (1907-1975) whose works encompassed subjects both secular and ecclesiastical is best known for designing stained-glass windows and for his management of the Dublin studio of world-renowned stained glass artist, Harry Clarke (1889-1931). King was born … Continue reading
Reading Room Log: Remembering the Marian Year of 1954
Nestled among the books in the Burns Library’s Irish Room, the Our Lady of Knock statue is a beautiful work of art combining simplicity with elegance. During a visit to Ireland in 1950 Bapst Library Director Reverend Terence L. Connolly, … Continue reading
Conservator’s Notebook: Mabel Florence Young, Painter of Irish Landscapes
The conservation lab at the Burns Library is a pleasant workspace with a nice blend of modern equipment, like my arts and crafts style oak work bench which was hand built in 1999 by Paul O’Connell, a graduate of the … Continue reading
Exhibition Update: Writing from the Irish Language Tradition and Literary Lives
The John J. Burns Library at Boston College is proud to offer an exhibit of writings in Irish and in English by ancient and contemporary Irish authors who inspired by the natural and mystical, frame golden notes for others to … Continue reading
