Search the Burns Blog!
Read Our Past Posts!
Browse our Instagram!
We have just installed a #SpineTingling exhibit: Golden Spiders & Black Orchids: a “Satisfactory” Look into the Life & Mysteries of Rex Stout. Stout, best known for his Nero Wolfe Detective novels, was an author, activist, chef, gardener, and devotee of the beard. Using the 5 Burns collections related to Rex Stout, this exhibit explores Stout’s fiction and its adaptations, his politics activism, and his hobbies. Drop by to see it onsite, or online at bit.ly/33ia6kS #LibrariesOfInstagram #ArchivesOfInstagram #RexStout #NeroWolfe #ArchieGoodwin #LibraryExhibitMondays...right? An illustration, probably from The Capuchin Annual, found in the Richard J. King Collection (MS2006-04) #ArchivesOfInstagram #RatherBeReading #ShakingOffTheIntroversion #RichardKingA student asked me what the most interesting thing I’ve found here was, and while I was debating my answer, an amazing colleague showed me this #peepshow (TF73 .G47 1835 General) of an early German #train as one of her favorite items! #artistbooks #illustrations #thetrainisnamedevil #newfavoritebook #alwaysaskacolleagueforcoolthings #thisishardtoohotograph #trustmeitiscoolGetting an early start today to set up examples of symbols to investigate in art with @jane.cassidy ‘s @bostoncollegeartdepartment Intro class! They’re doing research before designing their own #tarotcards #artistsoninstagram #engravings #libraryinstruction #9amclassesFollow us on Twitter!
My TweetsFind us on Facebook!
Tag Archives: Ireland
Digitized Irish Music Now Includes Unpublished Fiddle Playing by Michael Coleman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
Leave a comment
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
The Act of Union, 1800
This is the fourth 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 Irish Studies
Tagged Act of Union, english history, History, Ireland, irish history, irish history series, United Kingdom
Leave a comment
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, Boston History, Digital Projects, Irish Music Archives, Irish Studies
Tagged Ireland, music
2 Comments
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
1 Comment
Irish Women Rising: Kathleen Clarke (1878 – 1972)
Kathleen Daly was born in County Limerick in 1878 to a family of strong nationalists; her father and uncle were prominent Fenians (republicans). Kathleen was raised in a home where sacrifice for an independent Ireland was encouraged, and sacrifice to … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits & Events, Irish Studies
Tagged Clarke, feminist, Ireland, irish history, Irish Women Rising, revolution, women activists
Leave a comment
