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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Category: Manuscript Collections
Persian Treasures
The following guest blog post is by Mandana Mashayekhi Ghoyonloo, a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. The
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October in the Palm House
If you have ever wandered through the Palm House in Belfast’s Botanic Gardens, you may have come across this hanging
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A Literary Treasure – “The Belfast Group”
About the Group Philip Hobsbaum (1932-2005) was a lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at Queen’s University Belfast between 1962
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Crying for Elysium: stories, poems, essays
“The primary impulse of the artist springs, I fancy, from discontent, and his art is a kind of crying for
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The Journal of Patrick Lynch
The Journal of Patrick Lynch is available to browse now on Digital Special Collections & Archives. This important notebook from
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New Materials on Irish Victims of Stalinist Terror donated to Special Collections
We are delighted to announce that Dr Barry McLoughlin (University of Vienna) has generously donated further materials relating to our
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“Read all about it!” Notes on an Annotated 18th Century Newspaper Collection at Armagh Public Library
Dr Michael O’Connor of QUB Special Collections reflects on an idiosyncratic Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Collection Recently, I had the good fortune
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“Hillier called…”: A Glimpse at Sir Robert Hart’s Papers in Special Collections, Queen’s University, Belfast
About the author: Andrew Hillier is a mature student at the University of Bristol, having spent most of his career
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‘Shakespeare Lives through Kenneth Branagh on Stage and Screen’ Exhibition
‘Shakespeare Lives through Kenneth Branagh on Stage and Screen’ is on display in the Queen’s Film Theatre (QFT) Foyer until
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