Librarians, Poets and Scholars A Festschrift

A collection of essays and poems presented by the National Library of Ireland Society to Donall O Luanaigh, Keeper of Collections at the National Library of Ireland. The Society is an association of 'friends' of the National Library of Ireland, and most of the contributors to this volume have recently lectured to the Society or given poetry readings. Contributors: Gerard Lyne (NLI), Gerard Long (NLI), Ciaran O hOgartaigh & Margaret O hOgartaigh (DCU), L.P. Curtis Jr. (Brown U.), Felix M. Larkin, Deirdre McMahon (Mary I.), Diarmuid Whelan (UCC), Ellen Murphy, Maurice Harmon (UCD), Adrian Frazier (NUIG), Adrian Hardiman (Judge of the Supreme Court), Dennis O'Driscoll, Fergus Gillespie (NLI), Sighle Breathnach Lynch (National Gallery of Ireland), Brendan O Donoghue, Ian d'Alton, Finola Kennedy, Wesley Hutchinson (Sorbonne, Paris), Mary Beard (Newnham College, Cambridge), frontispiece by Brian Lalor; and poems by Theo Dorgan, Gabriel Fitzmaurice, Seamus Heaney, Brian Lalor, Gerard Lyne, and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne.

Donall O Luanaigh: a personal appreciation	p. 18
The writings of Donall O Luanaigh	p. 36
The keeper of collections	p. 38
How librarians and writers collaborate: George Moore, W. K. Magee and Richard Best	p. 39
The National Library of Ireland, 1890-1983: informal perspectives	p. 51
Lines from the Annals of Connacht, 1388	p. 71
A conscience shared: the Sheehy Skeffington papers	p. 72
Hedge schools, books and business education in eighteenth-century Ireland	p. 85
Shaw and Christianity: towards 1916	p. 95
Yeats exhibition	p. 120
Mrs Jellyby's daughter: Caroline Agnes Gray (1848-1927) and the Freeman's Journal	p. 121
'Killed by eviction': a case study in Co. Louth, 1888	p. 140
Five quatrains	p. 156
A social revolution within an economic revolution: changes in family life in Ireland	p. 157
From grand juries to county councils: the effects of the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898	p. 172
The Irish college at Salamanca	p. 198
Book	p. 211
Remembering the future, imagining the past: how southern Irish Protestants survived	p. 212
On first meeting the marquess of Lansdowne	p. 231
Public monuments in Ireland, 1840-1950: barometers of political change	p. 232
'Love's rock-built tower': the Ulster tower at Thiepval	p. 248
On publishing, a rhapsody	p. 263
Mil Espaine and links between Ireland and Spain	p. 270
'A gruesome case': James Joyce's Dublin murder case	p. 282
Elegiac occasions	p. 295
The library of adventure	p. 309
On seeing the old director's office derelict	p. 325
The Roman triumph	p. 326
The purchase of the Irish embassy in Paris, 1954	p. 337
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

FREE SHIPPING

Rent More, Save More! Use code: BBRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

Librarians, Poets and Scholars A Festschrift for Donall O Luanaigh

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials