Category Archives: Digital Projects

Hearing the Past

Posted on February 10, 2020 by

The term “archives” may call up images of vellum pages covered with beautiful cursive (or indecipherable scribbles) but, as previous blog posts on material culture highlight– see What’s in a Game? Some Examples of Board Games at Burns Library and … Continue reading →

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Sound Innovations: Howard Belding Gill and Robert W. Bullock Recordings

Posted on September 23, 2019 by

Many unique or rare archival audio recordings in Burns Library collections have been unavailable to researchers due to the fragility of their storage media (think: cassette tapes, vinyl records, and their predecessors). Any time a recording is played might be … Continue reading →

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Digitized Irish Music Now Includes Unpublished Fiddle Playing by Michael Coleman

Posted on June 10, 2019 by

During a review of recently-digitized audio in John J. Burns Library’s Joe Lamont Irish Music Recordings, we asked our friend and former BC colleague Séamus Connolly to listen to a fiddle segment on tape reel #6 that Joe Lamont’s tracklist … Continue reading →

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Sounds of Mid-20th Century Irish America: Irish Traditional Music in Boston and New York

Posted on November 12, 2018 by

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 →

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Traditional Music, Old and New: The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music

Posted on February 6, 2017 by

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 →

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From the Dubliners Bookshelf

Posted on July 27, 2015 by

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 →

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One Story Draws Another: Irish American History in Boston

Posted on March 16, 2015 by

  These selections from the Irish American manuscript collections at the Burns Library are loosely bound together by common threads of shared affiliation with the University and with the City of Boston – its business and its politics. To each of us working on … Continue reading →

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Sacred Heart Review

Posted on November 17, 2014 by

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 →

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Michael H. Leary Letters

Posted on September 29, 2014 by

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 →

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Processing Project: B.C. Photographs Collections

Posted on May 27, 2014 by

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 →

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