by Máire Ní Chonalláin, Assistant Keeper II The Samuel Beckett Collection which belonged to the author’s London bookseller friend, Alan Clodd, has been catalogued. We were fortunate enough to acquire this collection in 2006. The private collection of the Nobel prize-winner’s work is highly regarded as it contains virtually all of Beckett’s works in first […]
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Alan Clodd,
Beckett Clodd Collection,
Bookseller,
Calder & Boyers,
Critique,
Dublin,
École Normale Supérieur,
Enitharmon Press,
First editions,
Galley proofs,
Grove Press,
J. & W. Beckett,
James Joyce,
Les Éditions de Minuit,
Les Lettres Nouvelles,
Les Temps Modernes,
Máire Ní Chonalláin,
National Library of Ireland,
National Museum of Ireland,
Nobel Laureate,
Paris,
Portora Royal School,
Proof copies,
Résistance,
Samuel Beckett,
Samuel Beckett Collection,
South King Street,
Thomas McGreevy,
Transition,
Trinity College Dublin,
William Beckett
by Inez J Fletcher, Cataloguer & Director of Irish ISSN Centre Cataloguers come across a very wide variety of publications in the course of their regular work, but I mostly catalogue contemporary periodicals. However, recently I was asked to catalogue a run of eight volumes for the period January 1889 to December 1892 of The […]
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Arsenic,
Beeswax,
British and Colonial Druggist,
Cascara,
Cataloguing,
Clanbrassil Street,
Cough Konckerer,
Director of Irish ISSN Centre,
Dr. Krugener's Patent Book Camera,
Dynamite,
Engravings,
Inez J Fletcher,
Journals,
Kilner Glass,
Mary Street,
Messrs. M & C Bracken,
Mincing Lane,
Opium,
Parcel Detective Camera,
Periodicals,
Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland,
Poison,
Rhubarb,
Rotunda,
Samuel Boyd
by Justin Furlong, Acquisitions Librarian I recently returned from a visit to New York. One of the highlights of the trip was a tour of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum which tells the stories of immigrants who lived at 97 Orchard Street, a tenement built in 1863 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. 97 Orchard […]
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65 Mott Street,
97 Orchard Street,
Acquisitions Librarian,
Bridget Moore,
Diaspora,
Dublin Directories,
Emigration,
Florence Scovel Shinn,
Griffin Collection,
Irish-American,
Joseph Moore,
Justin Furlong,
Louise Montgomery,
New York,
Stephen Griffin,
Tenement Museum,
Tenements,
Thom's Almanac,
Thom's Directories
