Special Collections Blog at Queen's University Belfast

The Special Collections Blog brings you news of developments, exhibitions and events in Special Collections. Treasures from our collections are also highlighted.

Newly digitised: Cara-Friend Annual Reports 1971-2005

Posted on 7th August 2023 by admin

We are delighted to make Cara-Friend annual reports, 1971-2005 available on QUB Digital Special Collections & Archives. Cara-Friend was established

Newly digitised: MS 4/5 Edward Bunting’s Irish Airs

Posted on 1st August 2023 by admin

We have added another Bunting manuscript to our online collection. MS 4/5 is a 80 pp. volume of Irish airs

Cuban Handmade Books by Ediciones Vigía

Posted on 24th July 2023 by admin

On display this summer at QUB Special Collections is a selection of hand-crafted books, all made between 1994-1996 by Cuban

Clavicula Salomonis- The Key of Solomon (MS 27/10/20)

Posted on 3rd July 2023 by admin

We’re delighted to have recently digitised and uploaded the library’s copy of the Clavicula Salomonis to our Digital Special Collections

Image of MS 4/6/8 Caitlín Aramas. Máire Brún

Newly Digitised: MS 4/6 Manuscript Airs and Songs

Posted on 28th June 2023 by Conor Kerr

We are delighted to share the newest addition to Digital Special Collections & Archives: MS 4/6 Manuscript Book of Airs

McClay exhibition explores Second Reformation in pre-Famine Ireland

Posted on 15th June 202315th June 2023 by Keira Dobbin

Guest post by Dr Ciarán McCabe (School of HAPP, Queen’s University Belfast). A new exhibition focusing on one of the

Andrew Gibson: Jack of All Trades, Master of them All.

Posted on 10th May 202317th May 2023 by Christopher Little

Andrew Gibson was born in the village of New Cumnock, Ayrshire, in south-west Scotland on 23 December 1841. He was

Ethel Smyth: words and music

Posted on 24th April 2023 by Louisa Costelloe

Image 1: Ethel Smyth in 1922. Image courtesy of the George Grantham Bain collection at the Library of Congress via

Early Presbyterian Libraries and the Gamble Library

Posted on 29th March 2023 by Keira Dobbin

Many thanks to Joy Conkey, Librarian of the Gamble Library in Union Theological College, Belfast, for this guest blog. The

A short case study of unaccompanied Jewish child refugees to Northern Ireland during the Second World War

Posted on 20th January 202323rd January 2023 by Keira Dobbin

Many thanks to Dr Pamela Linden Aveyard for her guest blog post in recognition of World Holocaust Day 2023, which