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Category Archives: Digital Projects
Sounds of Mid-20th Century Irish America: Irish Traditional Music in Boston and New York
Two collections of open-reel tapes of Irish traditional music in Boston and New York (1950s-1960s) have been digitized by Boston College Libraries. Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, Digital Projects, Irish Music Archives, Irish Studies, Staff Posts
Tagged Ireland, music
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Traditional Music, Old and New: The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music
Irish traditional music followers worldwide can now access hundreds of music tracks in The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music, a digital collection produced and published by the Boston College Libraries. This collection of tunes and songs was compiled over fifteen … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, Digital Projects, Irish Music Archives, Irish Studies, Staff Posts
Tagged Audio playlists, Boston College Libraries Digital Collections, Burns blog, burns library, burns library boston college, irish music, Irish traditional music, Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music, seamus connolly
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From the Dubliners Bookshelf
The current James Joyce exhibit, now on display through October 8th at the Burns Library, focuses on Joyce’s Dubliners and the books referenced in Dubliners. Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories about the inhabitants and environment of Dublin … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Projects, Exhibits & Events, Featured Collections & Books, Irish Studies, Rare books, Staff Posts, Student Posts
Tagged arthur machen, bloomsday, bulwer-lytton, burns library, catechism, Catholic Church, dubliners bookshelf, friedrich nietzsche, grant richards, irish collections, james joyce, Last Days of Pompeii, Lord Lytton, Nietzsche, publication history, unhemmed as it is uneven
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Sacred Heart Review
The Sacred Heart Review was a Catholic newspaper published in Cambridge and Boston from 1888 to 1918 devoted to local, national, and international news. The entire 60-volume run has been digitized and is now available online as part of the Boston College … Continue reading
Posted in B. C. History, Cataloger's Corner, Digital Projects, Featured Collections & Books, Staff Posts
Tagged boston college digital library, boston history, catholic newspapers, digital libraries, digitization, digitization catholic newspapers, historical newspapers, historical sources, newspapers, sacred heart review
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Michael H. Leary Letters
Being called upon to help decipher bad handwriting is an occupational hazard for the staff of the Burns Library, home to hundreds of linear feet of correspondence written by thousands of individuals – political and religious leaders, literary figures, bank … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, Archives Diary, Digital Projects, Exhibits & Events, Featured Collections & Books, Staff Posts
Tagged boston college burns blog, boston college digital libraries, Burns blog, burns blog primary sources, civil war, civil war 9th regiment, correspondence, digitization, irish americans, michael h. leary, michael leary letters, primary source, primary sources, primary sources burns library
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Processing Project: B.C. Photographs Collections
As the current processing project winds down, the archives department at the Burns Library thought it would be interesting to share some of the other projects we’ve completed in the last year. One of the most exciting projects turned out … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, B. C. History, Digital Projects, Staff Posts, University Archives
Tagged archives and manuscripts, boston college, boston college archives, boston college history, boston college university archives, BPP, Burns blog, burns library blog, Burns Library photographs, burns processing project, old Boston College photographs, photographs, processing project, University Archives
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