Early Modern Book Collections: Past, Present and Future

Wednesday 24 April: Institutional and private libraries in Early Modern Ireland.

Chair: Dr Richard Kirwan, University of Limerick.

• ‘Curious collections of scarce and valuable books’: eighteenth-century Irish private libraries. Dr Máire Kennedy, Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Early Modern History, Trinity College Dublin.
• ‘Cold, draughty, and unwelcoming?’: the institutional libraries of Early Modern Ireland. Dr Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh’s Library.

Wednesday 08 May: Early Modern book collections in the 21st century.

Chair: Barbara McCormack, Academy Librarian, Royal Irish Academy.

• The Bolton Library: reconsidering an Early Modern book collection in the 21st century. Olivia Lardner, Cataloguer of the Bolton Library, University of Limerick.
• Well read and well-travelled: the Franciscan book collection at UCD Special Collections. Eugene Roche, Assistant Librarian, UCD Special Collections.
• The St. Canice’s Library: past, present and future. Alexandra Caccamo, Assistant Librarian with responsibility for Special Collections and Archives, Maynooth University Library.

Wednesday 15 May: Reading and collecting books in Early Modern Ireland and Europe.

Chair: Prof Sandy Wilkinson, University College Dublin.

• Factors affecting book collecting in Early Modern Ireland and Europe. Dr Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian, Edward Worth Library.
• Reading books: here, there and then. Prof Brendan Dooley, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College Cork.