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Category Archives: Acquisitions
Florence Nightingale Bicentennial: Year of the Nurse and Midwife
Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, the World Health Assembly, the governing body of the World Health Organization (WHO), has designated 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife “to celebrate the work … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Archives & Manuscripts, Art at the Burns Library
Tagged florence nightingale, nursing
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New Acquisition: Ioannis Petraloysii Praenestini Missarum Liber Tertius
Among the most eye-catching books acquired recently by Burns Library is this collection of masses by the prolific and influential Italian composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Printed in 1570, in Rome, this is the first edition of the third collection … Continue reading
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Offbeat, Irreverent, and DIY: The Poetry of Mass Transit
For many of us, the political protest, music, and fashion of the 1960s and 1970s are the most recognizable aspects of the countercultural revolution. But the literature of that era can provide a window into that movement’s values, its struggles, … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Archives & Manuscripts, Irish Studies
Tagged Irish-American writers, Mass Transit, poetry, Terence Winch, Washington DC
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From the Bronx to Belfast: Michael Schwartz, Photojournalist with a Compassion for Children
Born in the rough-and-tumble Bronx in 1944, photojournalist Michael Schwartz became attracted to the still tougher neighborhoods of West Belfast during the late stages of the political conflict known as “The Troubles.” During the decade leading up to the 1998 … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Archives & Manuscripts, Irish Studies
Tagged Belfast, Bobbie Hanvey, Michael Schwartz, photographs, Photojournalism
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A Rare Vellum Printing
A book may be interesting on the basis of its physical features, its intellectual content, or its history of ownership. Here we have the trifecta: a book of unusual, even beautiful, material construction, containing a text of scholarly interest, and … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Irish Studies, Jesuitica, Rare books
Tagged Ireland, provenance, vellum
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Joe Derrane and his Gaillard Accordion
The Irish Music Archives at John J. Burns Library is delighted to announce the acquisition and display of Joe Derrane’s D/C# Gaillard accordion, a gift to the Library from his children, Joseph P. Derrane, Jr. and Sheila A. Harvey. The … Continue reading
New Acquisition: “Easter Week 1916” manuscript account by Margaret Skinnider
“I arrived in Dublin on Holy Thursday…” Although we are often excited about material the Burns Library acquires, we usually wait to tell potential researchers about our new collections until we’ve done our work: stabilizing and preserving through conservation and … Continue reading
Acquisitions Blotter: News from the New York Antiquarian Book Fair
This past Spring, I had the opportunity to attend the New York Antiquarian Book Fair on behalf of the Burns Library. I purchased several wonderful books, with topics from anatomy to history, astronomy to social commentary. These volumes are part … Continue reading
Cataloger’s Corner: Tom Williams, Irish Republican
The Irish collection here at the John J. Burns Library is not just old and dusty books about Ireland and the Irish. Working directly with the books and other printed material that make up the Irish collection, I am amazed … Continue reading
