Receipts

Do not try this at home

February 23, 2012 · 0 comments

in Collections,Exhibitions,Printed books,Rare books

by Aoife O Connor, co-curator of Particles of the Past exhibition In deciding what to put into our Discover: Particles of the Past exhibition for Dublin City of Science 2012, Robert Boyle was top of the list. We have an excellent collection of his published works and he’s a well known and important figure in […]

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Suet, Snails and Stinking Roger

September 15, 2011 · 1 comment

in Collections,Manuscripts

by Janelle Winters, Manuscript Intern While sifting through an old card catalogue as part of a grand scheme to augment our online sources, I stumbled onto some 19th century maps of rabies and typhoid fever cases in Ireland. As a former infectious disease and burgeoning history of medicine graduate student, I was intrigued by these […]

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