Download or read book Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Houghton Library Harvard University written by Cornelius G. Buttimer and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full account of North America’s largest collection of traditional Irish-language manuscripts. Harvard University has the largest collection of Irish-language codices in North America, held in Houghton Library, its rare book repository. The manuscripts are a part of the age-old heritage of Irish book production, dating to the early Middle Ages. Handwritten works in Houghton contain versions of medieval poetry and sagas, recopied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to which period most of the library’s documents belong. Contemporary writings from that time, as well as ones by the post-Famine Irish immigrant community in the United States, are included. This catalogue describes the collection in full for the first time and will be an invaluable aid to research on Irish and Irish American cultural and literary output. The author’s introduction examines how the collection was formed. This untold story is an important chapter in America’s intellectual history, reflecting a phase of unprecedented expansion in Harvard University’s scholarship and teaching during the early twentieth century when the institution’s program of studies began to accommodate an increasing range of European languages and literatures and their sources. This indispensable guide to a major repository’s records of the Irish past, and of America’s Irish diaspora, will interest specialists in early and post-medieval codices. It should prove of relevance as well to scholars and students of comparative literature, cultural studies, and Irish and Irish American history.
Download or read book Irish Libraries written by Robert Keating O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important reference volume introduces readers and researchers to the treasury of printed and manuscript resources available in Irish libraries, archives, and genealogical centres. Although it is aimed principally at the Irish Diaspora--amounting to some 70 million people around the globe who can trace their ancestry back to Ireland-- Irish and non-Irish researchers alike should find the book of inestimable value for their research anywhere in Ireland. It will acquaint the user with the valuable and accessible collections in Irish repositories. Essential information on operating hours, contact information--including names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and website addresses--access and service information, descriptions, and the location of these repositories will prove to be immensely practical. A number of features also enhance the value of the book as a work of reference. The entries are arranged alphabetically by city or town within county, and a separate list, arranged alphabetically by type of institution, is provided for added convenience. There are lists of publications, a detailed glossary and bibliography, and an extensive index. For family and local history researchers, a brief history and description of the Irish Genealogical Project is provided along with a helpful introduction to tracing one's ancestors. Of special interest are the vital reference details for each parish in Ireland for the crucially important tithe and valuation reocrds from around 1830 in the record offices in Belfast and Dublin. The guide also provides information of practical benefit to academic researchers; professionals in the area of business, education, marketing, medicine, law, and technology; and vacationers interested in learning about local resources available to them during their stay in Ireland.
Download or read book Leisure and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century written by Leeann Lane and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It has often been argued that 'modern' leisure was born in the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of World War One. Then, it has been suggested, that if leisure was not 'invented' its forms and meanings changed. Despite the recent expansion of the literature on Irish popular cultures - perhaps most strikingly sport - the conceptions, purposes, and practical manifestations of leisure among the Irish during this critical period have yet to receive the attention they deserve. This collection represents an attempt to address this. In twelve essays that explore vibrant expressions of associational culture, the emergence of new leisure spaces, literary manifestations and representations of leisure, the pleasures and purposes of travel, and the leisure pursuits of elite women the collection offers a variety of perspectives on the volume's theme. As becomes apparent in these studies, all manner of activity, from music to football, reading to dining, travel to photography, dancing to dining, visiting to cycling, child's play to fighting and attitudes to these were shaped not just by the drive to pleasure but by ideas of class, respectability, improvement and social control as well as political, social, educational, medical and religious ideologies." --
Download or read book Middle East Materials in United Kingdom and Irish Libraries written by Ian Richard Netton and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of Libraries written by Edward Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of Libraries Part the first History of libraries contin Economy of libraries written by Edward Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start with the history of libraries of the ancients middle ages and the moderns in compact set of valuable, well-analyzes, and chronological ordered knowledge about the well-known libraries in the ancient periods to the modern age. Examples some contents from the books and libraries' catalogues citied with the texts having explanatory marks and footnoted besides for clarification for the reader. Reveals libraries' economic conditions & financial operations from several British libraries. mention the subjects of architectures and architectural persepectives of the libraries in America, Europe, and the Great Britain primarily.
Download or read book Part the first History of libraries contin Economy of libraries written by Edward Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Memoirs of Libraries Including a Handbook of Library Economy written by Edward Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Libraries written by Thomas Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Public Libraries a History of the Movement Ans Manuel for the Organization and Management of Rate supported Libraries written by Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Libraries a History of the Movement and a Manual for the Organization and Management of Rate supported Libraries written by Thomas Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Irish Book Lover written by John Smyth Crone and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Libraries written by J. Raven and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-01-31 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.
Download or read book D osb ireachta P rlaiminte written by Ireland. Oireachtas. Dáil and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
