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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The Special Collections Blog brings you news of developments, exhibitions and events in Special Collections. Treasures from our collections are also highlighted.
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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New digital exhibition on Simms medical texts
Special Collections and Archives at Queen’s University Belfast holds a wide array of early medical works and medical history. Many
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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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Research and Special Collections Available Locally (RASCAL)
The RASCAL database offers researchers a pathway to Irish Studies resources throughout Ireland and beyond. It contains neat summary descriptions
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Sonorities Festival Belfast
Our new display celebrates the history of Sonorities Festival Belfast the city’s longest running festival of contemporary music. First billed as
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The Memory of the Russian Revolution
An Empire in Transition The week beginning the 6th of November 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of
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