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Person or Persons Unknown: Entries in a Property Receipt Book from the Edward Hartwell Savage Papers
A property control “receipt book” kept by the Boston Police Department is part of Burns Library’s Edward Hartwell Savage papers. Read More
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From Samhain to Halloweekend
On October 27th, many college students will be preparing themselves for “Halloweekend”- the Friday and Saturday of the weekend closest to Halloween. Read More
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The Vietnam War at the Burns Library: The Tip O’Neill Congressional Archives (Part Two)
Formerly a supporter of the Executive branch’s military policy, O’Neill, encouraged by a stream of constituents’ anti-war letters, shifted to an oppositional stance focused on ending America’s involvement in Southeast Asia. Read More
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Matrix and the Whittington Press
The Whittington Press was founded in 1971 by John and Rosalind Randall. An internationally acclaimed press, Whittington prints and publishes all of its work in letterpress. Read More
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Irish Women Rising: Mollie Gill (1891–1977)
Mollie (or Máire, in Irish) Gill is the first woman featured in our Irish Women Rising blog series who did not come from the well-to-do, Anglo-Irish class. Read More
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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. Read More
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Irish Women Rising: Maud Gonne (1866 – 1953)
“Oh yes, you are, because you make beautiful poetry out of what you call your unhappiness and you are happy in that. Marriage would be such a dull affair. Poets should never marry. The world should thank me for not marrying you.” Read More
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The Red Scare and the Liturgy and Life Pamphlet Collection
Often cheaply designed and produced, usually free to take or sold for a trivial cost in religious bookstore racks, pamphlets of this nature often offer advice to the first-time visitor for following the proceedings, argue for the veracity of the denomination’s theology, or stake out a position on a moral or social issue. Read More