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Category Archives: Irish Music Archives
Digitized Irish Music Now Includes Unpublished Fiddle Playing by Michael Coleman
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
1916 Easter Rising
This is the last in a series of seven blog posts highlighting and summarizing important events in Irish history, and Burns Library resources which aid in further study of the topic. Burns Library holds many Irish history resources and is … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, Irish Studies
Tagged 1916 Rising, easter rising, History, Ireland, irish history, irish history series, photographs
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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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Ireland’s Great Famine, An Gorta Mór
This is the sixth in a series of seven blog posts highlighting and summarizing important events in Irish history and Burns Library resources which aid in further study of the topic. Burns Library holds many Irish history resources and is … Continue reading
Uncovering Irish Attitudes to Shakespeare
This week we feature a guest post by our current Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies, Patrick Lonergan, Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway On 23 April 1916, the British academic Israel Gollancz … Continue reading
Posted in Faculty posts, Irish Studies, Researcher Posts
Tagged alice meynell, Burns scholar, Douglas Hyde, Shakespeare
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Gallagher Family Commonplace Book
This week we feature a guest post from a visiting researcher, Dr. Pádraig Ó Liatháin, Assistant Professor at Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU. Dr. Ó Liatháin has been working extensively with one of our Irish language manuscripts. On page … Continue reading
Catholic Emancipation
This is the fifth in a series of seven blog posts highlighting and summarizing important events in Irish history and Burns Library resources which aid in further study of the topic. Burns Library holds many Irish history resources and is … Continue reading
