Author: Louisa Costelloe

MS 4/29 Captain Magan and Creamonea

Bunting Manuscript 29

Many people have heard of Edward Bunting and his unique manuscript collection held in Special Collections at Queen’s University. What

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Portrait of Ethel Smyth

Ethel Smyth: words and music

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

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Byrhtferth's diagram of the cosmos

Ciphers, Codes and Notes: Crafting Knowledge in the Medieval and Modern Worlds

Visit our new online exhibition – Crafting, Codes and Notes: Crafting Knowledge in the Medieval and Modern Worlds This fascinating

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Online Exhibition – The Edward Bunting Collection

Special Collections is delighted to present a new exhibition on The Edward Bunting Collection. The exhibition celebrates this major collection

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Remembering Bunting Festival 2020

Dún Uladh have organised another excellent weekend of FREE events for the Remembering Bunting Festival 2020. Once again we are

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Ulster Scots texts online – a collaboration

Ulster University in partnership with Queen’s University Belfast and the Ulster-Scots Agency have created an online digital collection of Ulster-Scots

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Illustration from In the State of Denmark

Edith Somerville – Illustrating her Travels

Special Collections has published a number of original drawings by the celebrated writer and artist Edith Somerville (1858-1949) on our

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In Search of Sir Robert Hart; from Portadown to China

With thanks to Katie Leeper, who is undertaking an MA in Public History at Queen’s University Belfast, for this guest

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‘Dear Mother, Dear Father’: Legation Letters Home

The following guest blog post is by Dr. Andrew Hillier, Honorary Research Associate, University of Bristol. A trunkful of papers

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Remembering Bunting Festival, 8-10th February 2019

We were delighted to be asked by Dún Uladh to participate in the Remembering Bunting Festival this year. A weekend of

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