Presentation at a joint seminar between the Library Association of Ireland's Rare Books Group and the Irish Association of Art Historians, 19 May 2017.

1. Resources for Art History in UCC Library’s Special
Collections & Archives
Irish Association of Art Historians | 19 May 2017
Elaine Harrington | Special Collections Librarian
University College Cork

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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/

6. People: Elizabeth Friedlander

7. People: Robert Gibbings

8. People: Robert Gibbings

9. People: Tomi Ungerer

10. People: Tomi Ungerer

11. Organisation: Coracle Press

12. Manuscripts – Great Book of Ireland

13. Manuscripts – William O’Brien Book of
Signatures (U2)

14. Ó Longáin Manuscripts – Irish Language
Ls 97
Ls 90

15. Standúin Manuscripts – Irish Language
Ls 199
Ls 202
T.xlix

16. Irish Language Manuscripts like Printed Books
T.i
T.lxxiv

17. Bindings
T.xliii

18. 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.

19. Bookplates
Friedlander
Collection
Gibbings
Collection

20. Prints – Hogarth (U330A)

21. Prints – Hogarth (U330C)

22. Charts – Map of Kinsale (3M)

23. Charts – Map of Kinsale (3D)

24. 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

25. 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.

26. 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/

27. Collections of Interest in the Archive
• Bantry Estate Collection
• Postcards and Ephemera
• Jean Sheehy Collection
• Elizabeth Friedlander
Collection
• Woodford Bourne
Collection

28. 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.

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

30. Bantry Estate Collection
Sketch of the East Wing of Glengarriff Castle, from notebook Ref. 3304

31. Bantry Estate Collection
Watercolour depicting the Conservatory of Glengarriff Castle. Ref. 3301

32. Bantry Estate Collection
Watercolour depicting Glengarriff Castle. Ref. 3304

33. 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.

34. 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

35. Bantry Estate Collection

36. 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.

37. Woodford Bourne Collection

38. Woodford Bourne Collection

39. 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.

40. 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.

41. 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

42. 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

43. libraryarchives@ucc.ie
Emma Horgan
Archivist
UCC Library Archives Service
Contact Archives