Burns Library Archival Collections

The album consists of six prints restruck from the original plates. The original engravings appeared circa 1819-1826. The collection contains "The Dancing Lesson" Parts 1-4, "Mushroom Monstrosities," and "Juvenile Monstrosities."

Open for research.

This unpublished transcription of the Flann O'Brien "Cruiskeen Lawn" columns that are not represented in published compilations was prepared by drama scholar Steven C. Young. It is thought to be the only extant copy of this work.

Open for research.

Autograph album containing containing verse, drawings, and humor by Irish Republican prisoners held at Crumlin Road Gaol. Entries are dated May-June 1921, and are signed by Thomas Sherry, Felix Devlin, Daniel F. Sheridan, Stephen Raferty, Malachy Doddy, and others.

Open for research.

Open for research.

Collection is open for research.

Scrapbook consists of annotated clippings from the Northern Whig, a paper in Belfast of which Samuel Cunningham was chairman for a time. The clippings in this volume are by pseudonymous authors including “Asmodeus,” ‘Merlin, and “Old Fogey,” possibly Cunningham himself. Topics discussed range from Home Rule, World War I, the Titanic, suffragists, elections, unions, Churchill, and the political situation in Ulster, to coupons, waiters, and margarine.

Scrapbook is open for research. Materials are fragile; please use with care.

These materials, collected by professor of English William F. Cunningham, Jr., consist primarily of artifacts and ephemera associated with twentieth-century adaptations of the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. There are also smaller amounts of commemorative items associated with Swift himself.

Collection is open for research.

The scrapbook consists primarily of newspaper tributes looking back on the life of Richard Cardinal Cushing. Most were published shortly after his death. It also contains original photographs of Cardinal Cushing's funeral mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, Massachusetts.

Open for research.

This collection documents the scholarship of Boston College professor of history William M. Daly. Daly's work focused on the medieval period and Christianity. His papers consist of research notes and drafts for articles, lectures, and two unpublished books.

Collection is open for research.

Handwritten diary of Timothy Dandy's religious reflections. He finished the diary on August 29, 1824.

Open for research. Fragile; use care in handling.

Composed mainly of newspaper clippings about Daniélou. Also includes publications and letters about him, as well as a photograph reproduction.

Collection is open for research.

Open for research.

The papers document the career of twentieth and twenty-first century Irish author Gerald Dawe as a poet, essayist, and academic, and consist of clippings, correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts and typescripts, notebooks, photographs, and scrapbooks.

Collection is open for research.

Composed of published speeches of Sinn Fein leader and Irish president Éamon De Valera, some of which date from the World War II era. There are also images of him, including photographs taken during his visit to Boston in 1947. In addition, the collection includes obituaries of De Valera from Irish newspapers, and two letters of De Valera's wife, Sinéad.

Collection is open for research.

Small collection of correspondence and manuscripts of Irish poet Aubrey De Vere from 1886-1905.

Collection is open for research.

Personal and literary papers of Irish poet and editor John F. Deane.

Collection is open for research.

Contracts and personal financial documents are closed for 75 years from the date of creation for privacy concerns.

Audio and video recordings 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.

Collection is open for research.

Contemporary manuscript copy of a deed of sale by James Boies to Richard Clarke, in establishment of a partnership in a paper mill on the Neponset River, in Milton, Massachusetts.

Open for research.

Manuscript copy of the 1719 Naples edition of Stradiotti's biography of Saint Francis de Geronimo. With an engraved portrait of Saint Francis de Geronimo, signed in plate: Nicolaus Morena delin.

Open for research.

Open for research.

The letters comprise thirteen bound volumes containing the correspondence of nineteenth-century Scottish author Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster to her uncle, George Dempster. Also contained in the volumes are ephemera, including playbills and programs.

Collection is open for research.

Two-page letter written in black ink on single sheet of unlined blue paper, in which George Anthony Denison expounds on the meaning of "tractarian" i.e., the Oxford Movement.

Open for research.

A button accordion, an event program, photographs, a set list, and phonograph records belonging to Boston-area Irish musician Joe Derrane.

Collection is open for research. The accordion may be viewed by researchers, but may not be played.

Open for research.

Three gouache paintings, done in preparation for a stained glass window triptych. Center painting depicts Jesus Christ holding a lamb, with Saint Joseph and Saint Patrick to each side.

Open for research.