Birds, butterflies and two-headed dragons
The wonderful imaginings of printer Julian Notary (active 1496-1520)
Lucerna Fidelium–Lochrann na gCreidmheach, Roma, (1676)
Apart from the Latin title Lucerna Fidelium–Lochrann na gCreidmheach (1676) is written entirely in early modern Irish.
Tithe Troubles in Pre-Famine Ireland
Trouble in pre-famine Ireland and the vestrymen of Moyaliffe
Bolton Library: Bolted on #2
Murder and misadventure in the Middle Ages: a 13th century legal resource preserved by a 19th century bookbinder
An architect’s ledger: James Pain and Adare Manor, 1832—1834
The ledger of limerick architect James Pain, the man enlisted in 1832 to design Adare Manor
The Glin Castle ‘Cellar Book’
The Glin Castle Cellar Book highlights the grandeur of life at Glin Castle in the 1930s & 1940s
Scrapbooking the Roaring Twenties
A snapshot of the 1920’a found in the scrapbook of Jess Armstrong
Through the lens: archival images of Dromore Castle, Co. Limerick
Guest post on the sketches and photographs found in the Dromore Castle Scrapbook
The Diary of a Country Gentleman
Guest post by MA student Nathan Durand on the diary of Henry William Massy (1816–1895)
A letter from Gallipoli, 1915
Pat Armstrong gives us a first-hand account of what life was like for one Irish soldier in the First World War through his letters home to his mother.
Bookbindings of the Bolton Library #2
Panels and geometrics adorn a condemned tome
The Commonplace Book of Colonel Edmund Pery
This seventeenth-century commonplace book is a deeply interesting and occasionally amusing insight into Colonel Edmund Pery (1758–1844)
