Ex Libris: Bookplates in UCD Special Collections (Part 1)

‘The convenience of such a label of proprietorship, printed or engraved, led to its adoption soon after the appearance of printed books. Books have been lost, borrowed, or stolen ever since type began, and a mere manuscript name is inconspicuous and easily effaced.’ John Byrne Leicester Warren (Lord de Tabley), A Guide to the Study … Continue reading Ex Libris: Bookplates in UCD Special Collections (Part 1)

‘Old Friendship & Regard’: The Joseph M. Hassett Donation, 2022 

In an interview with Dennis O’Driscoll, Seamus Heaney noted that ‘A friendship…is a field of force. There’s a mutuality, a happy shadowing and colouring of minds. You wake to different things in yourself and in the world, just by coming alive in the company of different friends.’ [1] A recent donation to UCD Special Collections … Continue reading ‘Old Friendship & Regard’: The Joseph M. Hassett Donation, 2022 

The Final IRA Executive Meeting Attended by Liam Lynch, 23-26 March 1923

The 24 May 2023 will mark 100 years since the IRA Chief of Staff Frank Aiken issued a ‘dump arms’ order to republican forces, bringing an end to the military fighting of the Irish Civil War. It also marked a seminal moment, in what Éamon de Valera (then President of the de jure Republican Government) … Continue reading The Final IRA Executive Meeting Attended by Liam Lynch, 23-26 March 1923