Resources for Art History in UCC Library’s Special

Collections & Archives

Irish Association of Art Historians | 19 May 2017

Elaine Harrington | Special Collections LibrarianUniversity College Cork

Schedule

Special Collections

• About Boole Library’s Special Collections

• Collections of interest

• Items on a theme

• Contact details

Archives

• About Boole Library’s Archives Service

• Collections of interest in the archive

• Contact details

Special Collections & Archives Service

Special Collections and Archives Service serve as the

repositories for primary source material and the secondary

sources that support such primary sources.

The decisions for acquisition and selection of material are based

both on the unique and distinctive format and content of the

materials, as well as building and enhancing existing collections.

Such material and collections as listed below then facilitate

research, teaching and learning by the University College Cork

community as well as by the wider community.

Special Collections at UCC

Existing formats include:

• Early printed books

• Literary manuscripts

• Collections donated by

individuals of note

• Books from private presses

• Historical pamphlets,

• 18th – 20th century

newspapers

• Theses and maps

• Artists’ books

Collecting strengths include:

• Irish history & Irish

language

• Irish fiction

• Poetry & material related to

the Great Book of Ireland

and its contributors

• Irish Studies

• Literary and historical items

& collections relating to

Munster

• Humour Collection

• Collections on a theme

such as maritime or travel.

Accessing Special Collections

Library home page: http://booleweb.ucc.ie/

→ Services →Special Collections

You’ll find:

• What is Special Collections

• How to access the service

• An overview of our collections

• How these collections are used with academic modules

The River-side blog gives details of new acquisitions and open

collections: http://blogs.ucc.ie/wordpress/theriverside/

People: Elizabeth Friedlander

People: Robert Gibbings

People: Robert Gibbings

People: Tomi Ungerer

People: Tomi Ungerer

Organisation: Coracle Press

Manuscripts – Great Book of Ireland

Manuscripts – William O’Brien Book of

Signatures (U2)

Ó Longáin Manuscripts – Irish Language

Ls 97

Ls 90

Standúin Manuscripts – Irish Language

Ls 199

Ls 202

T.xlix

Irish Language Manuscripts like Printed Books

T.i

T.lxxiv

Bindings

T.xliii

Book as Object

Allestree, Richard. The Causes of the Decay of

Christian piety… London: Printed by R. Norton for

Robert Pawlett, at the sign of the Bible in

Fleetstreet, 1675.

Bookplates

Friedlander

Collection

Gibbings

Collection

Prints – Hogarth (U330A)

Prints – Hogarth (U330C)

Charts – Map of Kinsale (3M)

Charts – Map of Kinsale (3D)

Contact Special Collections

Elaine Harrington, Special Collections Librarian

e.harrington@ucc.ie | 021 4903484 |

@walkerabroad

Special Collections: To request material

specialcollections@ucc.ie | 021 4902282

The Riverside: @theriversideUCC

http://blogs.ucc.ie/wordpress/theriverside/

http://libguides.ucc.ie/specialcollections

UCC Library Archive Service

An actively collecting

repository, UCC Library

Archives Service strives to

provide access for UCC

students and external

researchers to primary source

materials.

The archive primarily sources

collections with connections to

UCC, Cork or Munster in

general.

The archive collects items in all

formats: from photographs to

artworks.

UCC Library Archives Service

Library home page: http://booleweb.ucc.ie/

→ Services →Archives Service

You’ll find:

• What is UCC Library Archives Service

• How to access the service

• Links to open archival collections

• Links to .pdfs of our descriptive lists

The River-side blog gives details of new acquisitions and open

collections: http://blogs.ucc.ie/wordpress/theriverside/

Collections of Interest in the Archive

• Bantry Estate Collection

• Postcards and Ephemera

• Jean Sheehy Collection

• Elizabeth Friedlander

Collection

• Woodford Bourne

Collection

Bantry Estate Collection

BL/EP/B are the estate and

family papers generated by

the White/Leigh-White/

Shelswell-White family of

Bantry House, Bantry, Co.

Cork.

Items of particular interest in

the collection are

Architectural plans/drawings

of Bantry House & grounds

and numerous sketchbooks

belonging to Viscount

Richard White.

Bantry Estate Collection

1791 Map of Inchiclough Demesne, near the town of Bantry. Ref. 2042

Bantry Estate Collection

Sketch of the East Wing of Glengarriff Castle, from notebook Ref. 3304

Bantry Estate Collection

Watercolour depicting the Conservatory of Glengarriff Castle. Ref. 3301

Bantry Estate Collection

Watercolour depicting Glengarriff Castle. Ref. 3304

Bantry Estate Collection

Images from the Sketchbooks of Richard White, early 19th Century. Note the lyrical style and emphasis on delineation indicative of the period.

Images from the Sketchbooks of Richard White, early 19th Century. Note the lyrical style and emphasis on delineation indicative of the period.

Bantry Estate Collection

Bantry Estate Collection

Woodford Bourne Collection

BL/BC/WB is the

business archive of

Woodford Bourne & Co.

Limited, Cork (wine and

tea importers), containing

records of the import and

sale of exotic and luxury

goods.

The collection boasts a

range of advertising and

pictorial materials among

its contents.

Woodford Bourne Collection

Woodford Bourne Collection

Jeanne Sheehy Collection – Opening

September 2017

BL/PP/AR/JS are the papers of

Jeanne Sheehy (1939 – 1999).

She was a distinguished art

historian, best known for her

seminal work The Rediscovery

of Ireland's Past: The Celtic

Revival 1830-1930.

The archive comprised a series

of files maintained by Jeanne

Sheehy which relate to:

• Her studies of the ‘Irish

school’ at Antwerp

• Documentation relating to her

researches on the Celtic

Revival and Walter Osbourne.

Elizabeth Friedlander Collection – Opening

October 2017

BL/PP/EF are the papers of

Elizabeth Friedlander (1903-

1984), a German born designer

who later worked in England.

She spent her life producing

bookwork, calligraphy, and

decorative designs from the

1920s until her death.

The collection charts her

professional career from her

early working days in Berlin,

through her works for Penguin

publishers, and culminating with

her retirement to Kinsale, East

Cork.

Through CorkPal Crawford College of Art & Design lecturers Bill

O’Flynn & Collette Nolan visit Special Collections annually with 1st

year Fine Art & 1st year Contemporary Applied Art students.

For them:

Physical objects have a presence that no reproduction or digitised

object can approach.

Viewing and interacting with the items informs artistic endeavours.

Use in Teaching Activity: CorkPal Visit

Flavio Boggi:

'Viscount Berehaven’s tour of Italy in 1842–3: Collecting articles of

taste for Bantry House' Journal of the History of Collections

(2016).

'John Hogan's busts for Bantry, and Viscount and Lady

Berehaven's tour of Rome in 1842-43'. The Burlington Magazine

(2011) 153 (1304):734-737.

Use in Professional Activity: Publications

libraryarchives@ucc.ie

Emma Horgan

Archivist

UCC Library Archives Service

Contact Archives