UCD LIBRARY CULTURAL HERITAGE COLLECTIONS
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P202/8 Dan O’Herlihy, [1947] In the summer of 2023 Olwen O’Herlihy, daughter of the actor Dan O’Herlihy and Elsie Bennett, deposited a collection of correspondence that her parents exchanged during periods of separation spanning the years 1945 to 1993. The primary focus of the collection is the early years of Dan’s and Elsie’s marriage and …
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February 2nd marks the 138th birthday of UCD’S most famous alumnus, James Joyce, who was born in 1882. UCD Special Collections holds an important collection of Joyce letters and signed editions which are part of a larger collection that belonged to Joyce’s UCD classmate Constantine Curran and his wife Helen Laird Curran. Although these letters …
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Happy New Year to all our followers! We are delighted to welcome you all back to what we hope will be another year of riveting blog posts. So to kick off 2020 let's learn about... Catherine A Murphy was an American academic based a Merrimack College in Massachusetts. Prominent among her academic work was the …
On October 13th 2019, Cardinal John Henry Newman, first rector of the Catholic University of Ireland, will be canonised in Rome. The Catholic University of Ireland (CUI) was opened in 1854 and it is from this institution that University College Dublin traces its origins. The CUI was established as a result of opposition from the …
With the development of email, messaging apps and social media it can feel that the art of letter writing will soon become a distant memory. A memory that future generations will assign to their great great grand parents (aka us!) But there are those who are fighting back. Letters of Note is a website dedicated to …