A collection of Abbey Theatre minute books from January 1904 to May 1939. These minute books contain hand-written minutes from Abbey Theatre meetings. Each minute book has been transcribed and this collection provides access to both the transcribed text and the original text displayed in a side-by-side searchable manner.
https://digital.library.nuigalway.ie/islandora/object/nuigalway:abbey-theatre-minute-books
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The Ransom Center is an internationally renowned humanities research center at The University of Texas at Austin. Our extensive collections provide unique insight into the creative process of some of our finest writers and artists, deepening the understanding and appreciation of literature, photography, film, art, and the performing arts. The collections include nearly 1 million books, more than 42 million manuscripts, 5 million photographs, and 100,000 works of art. Highlights include Robert De Niro’s archive of scripts, notes, costumes, and props; the earliest known extant photograph made with the aid of the camera obscura; E. E. Cummings’s wooden paint box; production materials from Gone With The Wind; manuscript drafts by Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing; Jack Kerouac’s notebook documenting his writing of On the Road; original works by Frida Kahlo, including her iconic self-portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird; the Gernsheim Collection, containing some of the world’s finest examples of photographic art and science; some of Albert Einstein’s unpublished notes and calculations for his work on general relativity; Gabriel García Márquez’s manuscripts, correspondence, notebooks, and more (digitized for easy perusal); and one of only 20 complete copies of the Gutenberg Bible in the world.
https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/
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The Archive consists of digitised manuscripts and letters belonging to nine writers born or based in Northern Ireland. This material was donated to the Linen Hall Library over many years and is being presented in digital form for the first time. The material ranges from 19th century manuscripts by Samuel Ferguson through to the late poems of John Hewitt in the 1980s.
Taken together the Archive constitutes an important part of the literary history of Northern Ireland.
https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/
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The Poetics of Print is a digital exhibition exploring the Irish private press tradition and its role in the development of modern Irish poetry.
https://www.tcd.ie/library/exhibitions/poetics/
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MOTHERBABYHOME, a collection of 796 conceptual and visual poems on the St. Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway, was published by zimZalla Avant Objects in April 2019. Also in April, above / ground press published her chapbook running commentary along the bottom of the tapestry.
http://www.kimberlycampanello.com/motherbabyhome
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Asylum Archive documents Ireland’s Direct Provision system. The artist VUKAŠIN NEDELJKOVIĆ engages with the everyday realities of asylum seekers and draws on his personal experience of being an asylum seeker and living in direct provision centres in Ireland between the years of 2007-2009.
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Covering the entire span of his artistic life, the James Joyce Collection is the largest Joyce collection in the world and contains his private library; holograph drafts, typescript pages and corrected galleys and page proofs for Ulysses; 66 notebooks, transcriptions, typescripts, galleys, page proofs and the author’s copy with corrections of Finnegans Wake; documents for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Joyce’s lecture on Daniel Defoe; the notebook for Exiles; hundreds of letters between Sylvia Beach and Joyce; Beach’s printing records for the publication of Ulysses; John Quinn’s letters to Beach and Joyce regarding the trial over Ulysses and The Little Review as well as other Joyce and Beach correspondence; Joyce’s presentation copies to Beach; portraits and over 150 photographs of Joyce and his family; numerous personal artifacts owned by Joyce; thousands of his newspaper clippings; and notebooks, sketchbooks and letters by Joyce’s daughter Lucia Joyce. Supplementing the archive is a complete set of first editions, including all issues and states of every book published by Joyce, translations, a large number of his magazine appearances and virtually all the literary criticism in book form on Joyce.
Complete details about the Poetry Collection’s James Joyce Collection can be found in the collection’s online catalog. For now, the digital collections site only includes select photographs from the James Joyce Collection.
http://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/collection/LIB-PC004/
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The Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP) is a critical digital archive of early twentieth-century publishing history. The goal of this site is to display, curate, and describe the documents that go into the making of a book. The MAPP collection is constantly growing and currently contains thousands of images from archives and special collections relating to Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press including: letters, dust jackets, financial records, paper samples, illustrations, sketches, production sheets, and ephemera. These newly digitized materials are presented along with peer-reviewed biographies, bibliographical information, and other scholarly materials.
https://www.modernistarchives.com/
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UCD Writing Centre provides free, one-to-one tuition and a range of workshops on all aspects of the writing process. You can find us in Link Space 2 of the James Joyce Library.
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Radio MoLI is a digital radio station for Irish literature.
Discover Ireland’s rich literary heritage from past to present in the historic UCD Newman House on St Stephen’s Green in the heart of Dublin. MoLI is a partnership between University College Dublin and the National Library of Ireland.
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