Advent Calendar 2022: UL50 & The University Archives

The 2022 Special Collections and Archives Advent Calendar will showcase some of the best images […]

A University of Our Time

The UL archives have been used for the exhibition, A University of Our Time, telling the story of the University and the institutions that went before it.

The Diary of a Country Gentleman

Guest post by MA student Nathan Durand on the diary of Henry William Massy (1816–1895)

Advent 2021: 24 December

O’Carrol family on holiday at the Grindelwald Glacier in Switzerland (1899)

Advent 2021: 23 December

A car in the snow from the O’Mara Papers [c. 1933-1937]

Advent 2021: 22 December

A woman posing for a picture in a cart from the O’Mara Papers  [c. 1933-1937]

Advent 2021: 21 December

A man with a penny-farthing from the Gubbins scrapbook [c. 1881-1900]

Advent 2021: 20 December

The book cover for ‘On and Irish Jaunting Car’ from the McAnally Collection (1902)

Advent 2021: 19 December

An unlikely driver in this photograph from the O’Mara Papers. [c. 1900-1935]

Advent 2021: 18 December

Postcard for The S.S ‘Lady Limerick’ and its lounge (1945)

Advent 2021: 17 December

Frontis Map of the Caribbean found in the Bolton Library (1729)

Advent 2021: 16 December

Shannon Airport terminal building (1982)