Presentation overview of how UCC's Irish language manuscript collection was created and various entry points into the collection: provenance, scribes, age, size, binding, content, decoration and influences. The presentation was given at Library Association of Ireland's Rare Books Annual Seminar: 'Scríbhinní i nGaeilge i mBailiúcháin Speisialta in Éirinn - Writings in the Irish Language in Special Collections in Ireland.' 3 December 2021

1. A Call for Public Aid: Forming & Developing
UCC's Irish Language Manuscript Collection
Elaine Harrington | Special Collections Librarian | UCC Library
Scríbhinní i nGaeilge i mBailiúcháin Speisialta in Éirinn –
Writings in the Irish Language in Special Collections in Ireland
3 December 2021

2. A Call for Public Aid

3. …Responses from 1920s – 1940s: Murphy Collection
Ls. 1
Ls. 40 Ls. 20

4. …Responses from 1920s – 1940s: Power Collection
Ls. 78 Ls. 80

5. …Responses from 1920s – 1940s: Torna Collection
T.xlix T.i

6. …Responses from 1920s – 1940s: Smaller Collections
Ó Donnchú Collection
Cohalan Collection
Ls. 135
Ls. 117 Ls. 123
Lyons Collection

7. …Responses: 1940s – Present
Ls. 198 Ls. 202

8. Provenance
T.i
Ls. 128
Ls. 61

9. Scribes
Ls. 128
Ls. 61
Ls. 80

10. Age
Ls. 90
Ls. 61
Ls 204
Ls. 204

11. Size
Top: T.lxxv Lower: T.lxxvii Ls. 128 Ls. 1

12. Binding
T.xliii
T.xxxvii T.lxxv

13. Content
Ls. 128
Ls. 61

14. Decoration
T.i
T.xliii T.lxxv

15. Influences
T.lxxv T.i

16. Tradition to Contemporary
Ls. 90

17. Elaine Harrington
Special Collections Librarian
UCC Library
University College Cork
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