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Elaine Harrington
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Interim Head of Special Collections & Archives, UCC Library. Chair LAI Munster; Treasurer LAI Rare Books. Member LAI Executive Council 2023-2026. Co-founder SHOCC Project. Using technology to connect people with ideas. linktr.ee/walkerabroad HereSept2023
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Elaine Harrington @walkerabroad.bsky.social · Nov 11
This was my pinned tweet 2016-2024. The sentiment remains so keeping it as my pinned post: “Despatch the idea of the quiet librarian. We may wear glasses & tweed jackets but we do not go quietly. We rage.” #asl2016 #DylanThomas
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theriversideucc.bsky.social
#EYAMedieval On 12 April 1386 this Decree of Peter Hacket, Archbishop of Cashel given in the church of Kinsale, records evidence that the rectory of Kinsale belongs to the monastery of Bath. #Corkhistory #hiddenhistory #research @ucclibrary.bsky.social #archives @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
Old manuscript dated 1386 made of vellum, legal document called a Decree written by Peter Hacket, Archbishop of Cashel given in the church of Kinsale.
December 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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theriversideucc.bsky.social
Conservators are multiplying fast in Munster this Autumn! A month ago we welcomed Luca De Cilladi, the first conservation intern @ucclibrary.bsky.social, co-funded by @theheritagecouncil.

We also visited Lara Artemis at University of Limerick.
www.ul.ie/library/lara...
#EYAConservation #EYA2025
two people in a conservation lab
November 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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theriversideucc.bsky.social
We have so many fantatsic photographs in our collection @ucclibrary.bsky.social, it was difficult to narrow it down for the theme of beauty. We are sharing three stellar examples here by Alen MacWeeney [UCC © 2022 (All Rights Reserved)] and from the Liam Kennedy Collection. #EYA2025 #EYABeauty
Courtesy University College Cork © 2022 (All Rights Reserved). Person with long blonde hair face-down in swaying grass. Wearing yellow scraf and blue coat. Motion blur of first communions people walking through St. fin barre's cathedral. Black-and-white photo, long-exposure to create the motion-blur. four glass plate negatives inverted to show the positive image. One rura; scene, one street scene, one of a man and a woman in a cottage, one of a ship.
November 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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librarycongress.bsky.social
Welcome to our three-part series on book rebinding, where Library of Congress advanced book conservation interns Brittany and Devon will take you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection. Stay tuned for parts two and three!
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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ucc.ie
UCC hosts the inaugural Chris Williams Memorial Colloquium on Ireland and Wales

Commencing today, 'Gerald of Wales: Identity, Afterlives and Wonders' brings scholars together to explore Gerald of Wales' life, writing and lasting influence.

Read: www.ucc.ie/en/cacsss/ne...
A group of four people stand indoors in front of a presentation screen. They’re posed side by side, smiling toward the camera.
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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eoinlettice.bsky.social
University College Cork arboretum retains its global excellence status
www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...
University College Cork arboretum retains its global excellence status
Planted at the foundation of the university in 1845, the trees at UCC chart a history of global exploration, scientific curiosity, and cultural ...
www.echolive.ie
November 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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edcdcs.bsky.social
We are excited to welcome Dorothy Berry as the speaker for our 2025 annual lecture, "How Users Imagine Archival Research", on December 10th. Register now: https://edin.ac/4pfKrDp #EdCDCS Charing: Melissa Terras
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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aignejournal.bsky.social Aigne @aignejournal.bsky.social · Sep 25
📚BOOK REVIEW OPPORTUNITY 📚

Miller, Rebecca. 2022. Are You Dancing? Showbands, Popular Music, and Memory in Modern Ireland. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, May, 2025)

For details on how to apply, see our website: aigne.ucc.ie/index.php/ai...
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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corkup.bsky.social
Thanks to all who joined us for the recent launch of Gaelic Wexford 1400-1660 at the Spiegeltent, Wexford. Support from Wexford Historical Society and @notredame.bsky.social, Dublin.

Thanks Dominda for the tunes, Stephen Rea for the reading and hurling legend Liam Griffin for launching.

📚 Out now
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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laibluesky.bsky.social
Climate Change, Sustainability and Special Collections.
Friday 28th November at National Library of Ireland.

Further details and booking on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/climate-change-sustainability-and-special-collections-tickets-1589550039959

Climate Change, Sustainability and Special Collections
Join the LAI Rare Books Group to learn how climate change affects buildings and special collections in libraries.
www.eventbrite.ie
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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corkup.bsky.social
♀️Last week we celebrated the launch of Thirty Years of Change Through Women’s Eyes: Ireland, 1993–2023 by Íde B. O’Carroll at the @nlireland.bsky.social

The final book in a trilogy by the author under our Attic Press imprint was launched by Gráinne Healy.

📸 Maxwell Photography
Director of the National Library of Ireland, Audrey Whitty and author Íde B. O'Carroll on the main staircase at the National Library of Ireland. Launch speaker Gráinne Healy and author Íde B. O'Carroll on the main staircase at the National Library of Ireland. Author Íde B. O'Carroll surrounded by copies of her trilogy of books under the Attic Press imprint in the reading room at National Library of Ireland.
November 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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ktgerbs.bsky.social
If you're planning to teach it, there's an Open Access version so students can get a free e-copy. My goal was for this book to be both teachable AND accessible.

Also: I'm happy to zoom in & answer questions from students if you assign it - just message me!

read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...
Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
In 1760, following the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Empire, the Afro-Caribbean word Obeah first appeared in British colonial law.
read.dukeupress.edu
October 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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marshslibrary.bsky.social
We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...
October 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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statsepi.bsky.social
Oh good. Finally. Sheesh lads. 😜

Anyway, everyone do pretty please check out @sonrai.bsky.social for all things research data management and stewardship in Ireland (and beyond).
sonrai.bsky.social Sonraí - Irish Data Stewardship Network @sonrai.bsky.social · Oct 15
"Hello World" from Sonraí - the Irish data stewardship network. We aim to promote & support the transition to a FAIR and open research data landscape in Ireland. We will have regular shout-outs and updates on here, and check out our website: www.datastewards.ie

#DataStewards #FAIRdata #OpenResearch
Sonraí – Irish Data Stewardship Network
Irish Data Stewardship Network
www.datastewards.ie
October 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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ucclibrary.bsky.social
Join us at UCC Library to celebrate the acquisition of Helen Hooker O’Malley Roelefs’s photographic archive—the first by a female visual artist in our collections.
📍 Boole Library / Online
🗓️ Wed 22 Oct 2025, 2:30–3:30pm
🔗 More details and link for online libcal.ucc.ie/event/4450810
A sepia-toned photograph showing a young woman standing beside a detailed sculpture of a cherub-like figure holding a horn. The sculpture is mounted on a square pedestal decorated with ornate designs. The woman has short, wavy hair and wears a light blouse, looking calmly at the camera. The lighting highlights the sculpture’s curves and the woman’s thoughtful expression.
October 14, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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corkup.bsky.social
"...the definitive account of the bodhrán"

Delighted to see this thoroughly engaged review of Beating Time from Tristan Rosenstock in @journalofmusic.bsky.social this week journalofmusic.com/book-reviews...
October 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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silenimhurchu.bsky.social
Next Thursday, 16 October, 2-5 p.m. ORB G.27
The McCarthy MSI project & The Department of Modern Irish @ucc.ie present:

The Quire and the Medieval manuscript
a seminar on how manuscripts are made

Fáilte roimh chách / All welcome
October 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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erinbartram.bsky.social
If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
contingentmagazine.org
October 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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archive.org
The digital age threatens our cultural memory. Can libraries, archives & museums create a just, sustainable future?

📖 Learn how in the #booktalk for AFTER DISRUPTION with Trevor Owens & Shannon Mattern.

📅 Thurs Sept 25
🕖 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1633230118...
Promotional image for an online book talk titled 'After Disruption.' Left side shows portraits of Trevor Owens and Shannon Mattern with text: 'After Disruption Book Talk, with Trevor Owens & Shannon Mattern.' Center panel reads: 'September 25th, 10am PT / 1pm ET, Online. Join us for a book talk with Trevor Owens, author of After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory, in conversation with Shannon Mattern, as they explore how libraries, archives, and museums can reclaim their role in shaping a just and sustainable digital present.' Logos of Internet Archive and Authors Alliance appear at the bottom. Right side shows the book cover for 'After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory' by Trevor Owens, featuring a photo of a grand library entrance.
September 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Great turnout for the Norah Hoult plaque unveiling in Terenure. Thanks @louisekennedy.bsky.social, Dublin City Council, Lord Mayor Ray McAdam, Jimmy (the house owner), the writers who showed up - with a shoutout on the day to @sarahmaintains.bsky.social & @naoisedolan.bsky.social for their activism
September 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Just Published! Opening up our Heritage: Opportunities in Digitising and Promoting Cultural and Research Collections', a collection of 19 chapters on the #digitisation and promotion of cultural and scientific #heritage (ed. by R. Adam, C. Oger and Fr. Renaville) e-publish.uliege.be/opening-up-o...
September 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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jamesosullivan.bsky.social
#DigitalHumanities @ucc.ie has a two-year postdoc suited to researchers from broad range of disciplines.

my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...

Key tasks include coordinating a national survey of digital heritage practices & assisting with prototype development for communit archives.

Deadline: Oct 3rd.
September 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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bcgl.bsky.social
My lab is running a study to investigate how serendipity relates to information seeking in digital collections. We're looking for researchers & practitioners who have used, designed, or stewarded digital collections to participate in our survey (<10 min): forms.gle/zGJDZZ14vx2M...
Survey on Serendipity and Information Seeking in Digital Collections
Purpose of the Study We are seeking to understand the different methods of information seeking in digital collections. In addition, we would like to understand what the participants' perceptions of se...
forms.gle
September 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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catherineomahony.bsky.social
Remember 'The Spark'? They’ve just released a new Irish language rap created by kids in Ireland abd Scotland called "Meas Mór" (big respect). Comhgairdeas to Kabin Studio and Barr na gCnoc for this innovative work. Enjoy!

youtu.be/whwQfPVOFjI?...
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Meas Mór – Kabin Crew x Tinderbox
YouTube video by The Kabin Studio
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September 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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donalh.bsky.social
The deadline for the Call for Papers for this fascinating conference on 'Women in War: France, Britain and Ireland in the early 20th century' has been extended until October 18th. It should be a fascinating conference. Come to beautiful Boulogne-sur-Mer femmescombattantes.univ-littoral.fr/en/home/
Women in War – ULCO
femmescombattantes.univ-littoral.fr
September 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM