Tag Archives: Ireland

Process of a Poem: Seamus Heaney’s Funeral Rites

Posted on March 9, 2020 by

A poem greets its reader as a finished project. It resides there on the page, surrounded by blankness, with its line breaks and title. It is as if the poem walked out of the poet’s mind and onto the page … Continue reading →

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A Heckler in Washington

Posted on November 25, 2019 by

Imagine walking into the House of Representatives on your first day as a newly-elected member of Congress and seeing only ten other women among a total of 435 Representatives. That was Margaret Heckler’s reality as she began her career in … 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Digitized Irish Music Now Includes Unpublished Fiddle Playing by Michael Coleman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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1916 Easter Rising

Posted on May 6, 2019 by

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 →

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Ireland’s Great Famine, An Gorta Mór

Posted on April 22, 2019 by

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 →

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The Act of Union, 1800

Posted on February 11, 2019 by

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 →

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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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