Opening a Window to the Past
We are launching a new online research guide with an exciting giveaway to celebrate it!
A 1925 phrenological report on Veronica Villiers
A report of a phrenological examination conducted on Veronica Villiers in 1925, who was once married to the 28th Knight of Glin.
Accounting for expenditure at Shanbally Castle, County Tipperary, 1811-13
A ledger pertaining to expenditure at Shanbally Castle can be found today in the Timothy Looney Papers.
Upcoming event: The Looney Map of Tipperary, Thurles, 25 April 2023
Don’t miss this evening lecture by Dr Catherine Porter, Head of Geography at UL
Unique items in the Bolton Library #2
Iconography and music in European works from the Bolton Library
Pencil me in: Dance cards from the Armstrong Collection
Dance cards were a staple piece of both function and fashion, first making an appearance in the second half of the eighteenth century. These examples found in the Armstrong Collection.
A letter from the IRA to Lissenhall House, Co. Tipperary
A letter received by the Carrol family of Lissenhall House from Irish republican forces in 1923
Connecting cartographic collections through place and time
New interactive online resource highlights a corpus of nine maps from the collection, collectively known as ‘The Looney Map’ of Tipperary
The Countess of Limerick’s scrapbook 1900—1906
An insight into life in Dromore Castle from 1900-1906 through the scrapbook of the Countess of Limerick
New Collections: The Cratloe and Meelick Dispensary Records
The trials and tribulations of healthcare provision in early nineteenth-century Ireland
Jean Miller’s green catalogue (1973)
2023: a year of anniversaries in the Bolton Library
Advent 2022: 24 December
Snow on UL Campus, c.1990s
