Work Experience @QUB Library
For my school’s week of work experience, I was lucky enough to gain a work placement at the Queen’s University
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The Special Collections Blog brings you news of developments, exhibitions and events in Special Collections. Treasures from our collections are also highlighted.
‘The World Administered By Irishmen’ – book launch and exhibition
The World Administered By Irishmen: The Life and Times of Robert Hart and Contemporary Irish in East Asia by Robin
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Newly digitised: Cara-Friend Annual Reports 1971-2005
We are delighted to make Cara-Friend annual reports, 1971-2005 available on QUB Digital Special Collections & Archives. Cara-Friend was established
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Newly digitised: MS 4/5 Edward Bunting’s Irish Airs
We have added another Bunting manuscript to our online collection. MS 4/5 is a 80 pp. volume of Irish airs
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Cuban Handmade Books by Ediciones Vigía
On display this summer at QUB Special Collections is a selection of hand-crafted books, all made between 1994-1996 by Cuban
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Clavicula Salomonis- The Key of Solomon (MS 27/10/20)
We’re delighted to have recently digitised and uploaded the library’s copy of the Clavicula Salomonis to our Digital Special Collections
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Newly Digitised: MS 4/6 Manuscript Airs and Songs
We are delighted to share the newest addition to Digital Special Collections & Archives: MS 4/6 Manuscript Book of Airs
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McClay exhibition explores Second Reformation in pre-Famine Ireland
Guest post by Dr Ciarán McCabe (School of HAPP, Queen’s University Belfast). A new exhibition focusing on one of the
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Andrew Gibson: Jack of All Trades, Master of them All.
Andrew Gibson was born in the village of New Cumnock, Ayrshire, in south-west Scotland on 23 December 1841. He was
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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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