Research Collections is made up of four separate library departments – Early Printed Books & Special Collections, Manuscripts and Archives, Glucksman Map Library, and Music. This blog contains posts from each of these departments, as well as guest contributions. The blog also contains posts relating to specific funded projects associated with any one of these departments.
Early Printed Books & Special Collections
The Department of Early Printed Books and Special Collections (EPB) is responsible for some of the oldest and rarest books in Ireland. Along with early printed books and pamphlets, we collect private press items, limited editions, fine bindings, associated copies, Irish literature and much else that is of value to researchers.
Manuscripts & Archives
The Manuscripts & Archives Research Collection is responsible for research material which exists nowhere else in the world, from the world-famous 9th-century Christian Gospel the Book of Kells to the business archives of our University. We collect literary archives and manuscripts which reflect the history of Ireland, and the personal records of individuals.
Glucksman Map Library
The Glucksman Map Library holds over half a million maps and atlases making it the largest collection of printed maps in Ireland. It includes rare older material as well as modern mapping. The collections are particularly strong on maps of Ireland and Great Britain, but they also include coverage of Europe, Africa and the rest of the world at less detailed scales.
Music Collections
The Library’s music collections have been built up over the course of four centuries, and in their range and diversity reflect a thousand years of Irish and European musical history. These include medieval liturgical manuscripts such as the Canterbury Pontifical and the Kilcormac Missal; music of the Reformation such as Luther’s Enchiridion, Merbecke’s Booke of common praier noted, and the St Andrews Psalter.
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