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This unpublished transcription of the Flann O'Brien "Cruiskeen Lawn" columns that are not represented in published compilations was prepared by drama scholar Steven C. Young.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.

The Michael Cummings Collection of P.S. Gilmore documents the music career of Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, American band conductor and composer, and the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society. The collection particularly highlights the National Peace Jubilee of 1869 and the World's Peace Jubilee of 1872, with programs, lithographs, tickets, medals and bookmarks. The collection also includes correspondence, photographs, and newspaper and magazine articles.

Collection is open for research. The wax cylinder is not accessible, and access to the remaining audio and video recordings requires advance notice.

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.

Open for research.

This collection contains the papers of Martin Cyril D'Arcy, SJ, a twentieth-century British Jesuit scholar and theologian. Materials include correspondence, essays, and funeral memorabilia.

Collection is 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.

Some materials are closed at the request of Gerald Dawe.

Audiovisual recordings and digital content in this collection has been migrated from source media; all original media was retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

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 archives of Irish poet and editor John Deane from 1971-2000.

Collection is open for research.

Collection is open for research.

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.

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.

The diary contains entries discussing both academic and extracurricular activities by members of Boston College's sophomore class's section "A" over a four year period. Students were members of Boston College 1923-1926 graduating classes.

Open for research. Fragile; take care in handling.

The papers contain a journal, correspondence, legal and religious documents, clippings, ephemera, and photographs documenting the life of twentieth-century professor, Boston College president, and Jesuit James H. Dolan, SJ. Of note are photographs reflecting life at Boston College in the late 1920s and preliminary architectural planning documents for three Jesuit institutions.

Collection is open for research, with the exception of estate documents containing financial information, which are closed until 2037.

Collection compiled by nursing historian Josephine A. Dolan composed of artifacts, letters, ephemera, and photographs, with a particular focus on Florence Nightingale. Included are both original and reproductions of Florence Nightingale's correspondence.

Collection is open for research. Audiovisual items may be restricted depending on format, condition, and availability of playback equipment.

The Boston College collection of Dolmen Press contains advertisements, broadsides, catalogs, correspondence, dummy books, ephemera, and manuscripts documenting the administration of the Dolmen Press, an Irish fine print publisher that was in operation from 1951-1987.

Collection is open for research.

Consists of notes and writings on theological subjects created by Boston College theology professor Jeremiah Donovan, SJ.

Collection is open for research.

These papers document the life and medical career of Francis J. Dore, SJ, Boston College graduate and Head of the Biology department at Boston College. Materials include manuscripts, correspondence, booklets, clippings, photographs, religious materials, diaries, and other personal materials.

Collection is open for research.