Burns Library Archival Collections

Program for the 1981 Abbey Players production of At Swim Two Birds, adapted for the stage by Audrey Welsh and directed by Eamon Morrissey. Includes historical note by Niall Sheridan.

Collection is open for research.

Collection of materials relating to the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, including booklets, theater programs for the Abbey and the Abbey Theatre Players, photographs, and newspaper articles.

Collection is open for research.

Consists of correspondence, articles, manuscripts and research notes of Abraham. Also includes some unidentified sheet music and publications on music and various composers. Some of the material relates to the musicologist Michel D. Calvocoressi and several Russian composers.

Closed until processed.

Ledger recording the relief activities of Church of Ireland as recorded by the treasurer from January through May 1847.

Open for research.

Open for research.

Comprised of two volumes put together by Adams in 1834-1835. The volumes include copies of correspondence and other papers. Many of the entries are annotated. There are also lists of Adams' friends, schoolmates, and shipmates and the occupations they pursued in 1834-35.

Open for research.

Hand-colored portrait photographs, with hand-lettered presentation statement and list of donors. Signed: T.J. Lynch, Dublin. Presentation statement is bordered by painted vignettes of a horse, horse-riding equpment, and a fox.

Open for research.

Typescript draft of a laudatory address on John Boyle O'Reilly, with manuscript corrections.

Open for research.

Personal and professional materials created by twentieth century Jesuit and scholar of Marxist philosophy Frederick J. Adelmann, SJ, including correspondence, essays, lecture notes, and photographs.

Collection is open for research. The videocassette has been digitally copied; all original media were retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Collection is open for research. The Stock Book in Series II. is closed due to fragility, pending conservation review.

Audio and video recordings have been digitally copied; all original media were retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

This collection documents the organizational history of the American Association of Nurse Attorneys (TAANA), including the working papers of its founder, Cynthia Northrop, and past-president Karen Guarino. Materials concern the everyday operations of TAANA, outreach to fellow nurse attorneys, educational efforts on topics such as expert witness testimony and malpractice suits, and the planning of board of directors meetings and annual meetings.

Collection is open for research. Legacy media formats are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not been reformatted. Please let Burns Library Public Services know of your specific interest; if possible, reformatting will be scheduled.

These official records of the American Conference for Irish Studies include national and regional conference planning materials, correspondence, meeting programs and minutes, reports, and membership information, as well as the organization’s national and regional newsletters and updates to Guide to Irish Studies.

Collection is open for research. Some media are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not been reformatted. Please let Reading Room staff know of your specific interest, if possible, reformatting will be scheduled.

Materials created by the Irish-American Catholic fraternal order the Ancient Order of Hibernians, including information about Northern Ireland, a ledger, newspaper clippings, and regalia.

Collection is open for research.

Manuscript of Kirke, detailing the circumstances and activities of his early life in England. Also includes descriptions of Guyana and the West Indies.

Open for research.

Ian Anstruther was a British diplomat and writer, who focused on 19th-century social and literary history. These papers consist of typescripts for his book about English poet Coventry Patmore, Coventry Patmore's Angel: A Study of Coventry Patmore, His Wife Emily and "The Angel in the House" (1992), and limited correspondence with literary scholars concerning Patmore.

Collection is open for research.

This collection documents popular and political manifestations of anti-Catholic prejudice in the United States during the nineteenth century. Materials document the burning of the Ursuline convent in Charlestown, MA in 1834; riots targeting Catholics in Philadelphia, PA; and the American Party during the 1850s-1860s.

Collection is open for research.

Collection of materials related to anti-racism activist organizations in response to the 1974 legal ruling designed to desegregate Boston public schools through busing.

Collection is open for research.

Autograph album containing containing verse, quotations, and drawings by Irish republican prisoners at Arbour Hill Prison, Dublin. Entries are dated February-March 1940, and are signed by James O'Neill, Frank Quinn, Seán Dunne, Patrick Reynolds, and others.

Open for research.

A fictionalized account of events witnessed by the author during his youth of a "particular locality in the South of Ireland during the Agrarian uprising between the years 1880 and 1890." Ardbawn (or Ardbaun) is a townland of the civil parish of Thurles in County Tipperary. Mention is also made of the tenants working the land in Rosscarbery in County Cork.

Collection is open for research.

The Bette Arnold collection of Bette’s Rolls Royce restaurant materials consists of memorabilia related to the popular Bette’s Rolls Royce restaurant near Faneuil Hall in Boston. The collection, which dates from the late 1960s to 1980, contains artifacts, artwork, audiovisual material, clippings, photographs, and two scrapbooks.

Consists of official records of the AJCU. Includes many publications relating to the association and its institutional members. There are also reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records, and photographs. Also includes records of the Jesuit Association of Student Personnel Administrators, a sub-division of the AJCU.

Collection is closed until processed.

Illuminated gradual produced by an Augustinian monastery in the town of Pontremoli in Tuscany, Italy. Includes one historiated initial as well as decorated and flourished initials.

Open for research.