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INSTITUTIONS ANTECEDENT ANTECEDENT THE COLLECTIONS INCUNABULA
Some collections have been donated or purchased and are named according to their provenance. The collections include: An “incunabulum” is a book published • Constantine Curran - 20th century before the year 1501. UCD Special Anglo-Irish literature Collections has in excess of 40 incunabula. Pictured here is Meditationes Vitae Christi • John Lincoln Sweeney - 20th century attributed to St. Bonaventure ca. 1496 Anglo-Irish and American literature and from the Franciscan Collection. The • Thomas Kinsella - Kinsella’s personal Franciscan books came to UCD from the collection of his own published works Franciscan Library in Killiney in 2006. In • Joseph Hassett - W.B. Yeats signed first many cases they bear provenance marks editions and contemporary Irish Poetry from previous locations; either in Ireland or • Modern Literary Papers - Literary in one of the Franciscan Continental colleges manuscripts and correspondence from such as Rome or Louvain. modern Irish writers such as Mary Lavin, Frank McGuinness, Edna O’Brien, and Maeve Binchy • Seán Ó Ríordáin - Diaries, correspondence and notebooks of the Irish language poet James Joyce, age 6, • Poetry Ireland Collection - The main feature is the personal library of in a sailor suit, 1888 - Austin Clarke from the Constantine • Christopher Palles - Legal books Curran Collection and journals from the 17th to early 20th century • Franciscan Order - Circa 1,300 books formerly kept in Franciscan friaries
THE MANNING COLLECTION - 1890
Composed of Victorian and Edwardian children’s literature, The Manning Collection was assembled over many years by Dubliner John Manning and donated to UCD Library Special Collections in 1977. The collection reflects the publication bias of that time in favour of boys’ books. The weekly Boys Own Paper (also published in collected form as an “annual”) is well represented. As well as giving a phrase to the language, the magazine with its Throne presented to swashbuckling stories, blazed its way “the magazine, with its through almost ninety years; only ceasing Queen Victoria by the publication in 1967. swashbuckling stories, Maharaja of Travancore blazed its way through from Industrial Arts of the almost ninety years; only 19th Century (Museum of ceasing publication in 1967” Irish Industry Library)