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Need some more poetry in your life? How about a never-ending poem? . While digitizing audio-recordings from the Terence Winch papers (MS-2017-005), we came across this “Endless” audio cassette tape, containing a continuous loop of a 12 minute long poem. . The tape inside the cassette never engages with the right-hand spool, so it has no beginning or end, cannot be rewound or fast-forwarded, and will keep playing endlessly. #poetry #cassette #audioarchives #terencewinch #ThisIsThePoemThatNeverEnds #ItGoesOnAndOnMyFriendsWe have had the low brass of the @BCMarchingBand practicing outside the library this week. The Screaming Eagles Marching Band is celebrating a centennial in 2019, and when we see them getting ready, we know it’s almost time for classes #BandCamp #BCMarchingBand #ScreamingEagles #100YearsPrinter’s mark from Crosby Lockwood and Co, 1879. Lead the way with that torch. #CapioLumen #LibrariesOfInstagram #PrintersMarkIt’s #NationalAviationDay, so enjoy some well loved covers featuring early aircraft #LibrariesOfInstagram #GirlsLikeAirplanesToo #PublishersBindingsFollow us on Twitter!
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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Digitized Irish Music Now Includes Unpublished Fiddle Playing by Michael Coleman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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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