{"id":305,"date":"2017-05-02T13:35:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T13:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/?p=305"},"modified":"2018-08-14T14:45:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:45:39","slug":"irish-victims-of-stalinist-terror-donated-to-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/irish-victims-of-stalinist-terror-donated-to-special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"New Materials on Irish Victims of Stalinist Terror donated to Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We are delighted to announce that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/Geschichte\/htdocs\/site\/arti.php\/90839\">Dr Barry McLoughlin<\/a> (University of Vienna) has generously donated further materials relating to our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/2015\/04\/02\/ms-57-comintern-papers\/\">Comintern Papers <\/a>(MS 57).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The focus of this second tranche of material is on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/northern_ireland\/6759483.stm\">Irish victims of Stalinist terror <\/a>in the USSR, particularly, Patrick Breslin, Brian Gould Verschoyle and Sean McAteer. The collection will be called the McLoughlin Collection (MS 60).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_310\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-310\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/05\/Stalin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-310\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/05\/Stalin-300x255.png\" alt=\"Propoganda poster of Joseph Stalin\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/05\/Stalin-300x255.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/05\/Stalin.png 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Propaganda portrait of &#8220;Marshal Stalin&#8221; by Tim Date<br \/>Image courtesy of The National Archives UK @ Flickr Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The materials, sourced by Dr McLoughlin during the course of his research for his monograph <a href=\"http:\/\/encore.qub.ac.uk\/iii\/encore_qub\/record\/C__Rb1604108?lang=eng\"><em>Left to the Wolves: Irish Victims of Stalinist Terror<\/em><\/a> , include private family papers previously unknown to researchers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_308\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-308\" style=\"width: 166px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/05\/Capture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-308\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/05\/Capture.png\" alt=\"Image of front cover of Barry McLoughlin's book, &quot;Left to the Wolves&quot;\" width=\"166\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irish Academic Press, 2007<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>The materials comprise approximately four archive boxes of mixed media materials. A finding aid for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qub.ac.uk\/directorates\/InformationServices\/TheLibrary\/SpecialCollections\/FileStore\/Filetoupload,792350,en.pdf\">McLoughlin Collection<\/a> can be found on our webpages.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/Comintern-MSS-Desk-RR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/Comintern-MSS-Desk-RR.jpg\" alt=\"Archive Box with folders and documents\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/Comintern-MSS-Desk-RR.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/Comintern-MSS-Desk-RR-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/Comintern-MSS-Desk-RR-768x801.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/Comintern-MSS-Desk-RR-982x1024.jpg 982w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the boxes of new material for\u00a0 MS60<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that Dr Barry McLoughlin (University of Vienna) has generously donated further materials relating to our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[9,13,14,15],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manuscript-collections","category-news","tag-comintern","tag-ireland","tag-manuscript-collections","tag-manuscripts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/Comintern-MSS-Desk-RR.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8s7J-4V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}