The Old Library, Trinity College Dublin

Essays celebrating the tercentenary of the laying of the foundation stone of the library in May 1712. Contents: The Old Library: ut erat ut est ut esset / Peter Fox The text and decoration of the Book of Kells: fos 179v-180r / Bernard Meehan A fresh look at the pigments used on the Book of Kells / Susie Bioletti TCD MS 1282 (The Annals of Ulster) : a scholar's book and exemplar / Daniel Mc Carthy Some manuscript versions of the Brut Chronicle in Trinity College Library / John Scattergood Medieval and early modern Irish manuscripts in the Manuscripts and Archives Research Library / Caoimhe Ní Ghormáin The Fagel Missal / Kathryn M. Rudy The 1641 Depositions / Micheál Ó Siochrú John Ogilby's 1676 map of London (Fag. Portfolio XV, no. 16) / John Montague The egregious Matthew Tindal / Stephan Lalor Book-borrowing in Trinity College in the early eighteenth century / Elizabethanne Boran Trinity College Dublin in 1712 / Ellen O'Flaherty The one that got away, or almost: the Molyneux family library and Trinity College Dublin / Patrick Kelly The Incorporated Society / Kenneth Milne Claudius Gilbert and his books / Robert Armstrong Swift's books in Trinity College Library / Dirk Passmann Fagel's maps : the eighteenth-century world / J.R. Bartlett A drawing in the Fagel Collection / Edward McParland Details from Plates XVI and XXIII, Francesco Piranesi, Sciographia quatuor templorum veterum (2 parts, Rome, 1780-90) / Livia Hurley Some Irish stereotypes in the 'Golden Age' of caricature / Nicholas K. Robinson The Napoleonic Wars in caricature, 1799-1815 / Joseph Clarke Purgation and propaganda: Thomas Peall on the common diseases of the horse / P.J. Hartigan Cultivating childhood : the Pollard Collection of children's books / Lydia Ferguson Daniel O'Connell's top hat / Jacqueline Hill -- Hemphill's stereoscopic illustrations / Andrew Megaw The 1872 printed catalogue online / John G. Byrne Punch, or the London Charivari / Úna Faulkner The Southern Cross, 1875-1901 : an Irish Argentine voice / Helen Kelly The Davitt Papers / Carla King 'Brother Bookbinder' and the 'book beautiful' : arts and crafts books in the library / Nicola Gordon Bowe The Kelmscott Chaucer in Trinity College / Helen Beaney The Cuala Press Archive, 1902-86 / Karen E. Brown The music in the library / Eimear Saunders The sporting archive / Michael Halliday James Stephens : a life in letters / Felicity O'Mahony Propaganda, trauma and remembrance : Trinity College Library's collection of First World War memoirs / Heather Jones The Harry Clarke Studios / Fiana Griffin Frank Stephens' lantern slide collection / Clodagh Neligan Picture Post / William Francis Cooper Waiting for an archivist : the Samuel Beckett Collection / Jane Maxwell Tom Murphy : playwright adventurer / Nicholas Grene 'Would you look at that!': a chronological list of library exhibitions / Shane Mawe Working in the Conservation Laboratory / Raymond Jordan An undergraduate visits the 'Observatory' / Kenneth Milne Experiences of a chemist / William J. Davis A place apart / Susan Parkes Expeditions to the Department of Early Printed Books / Charles Hepworth Holland The Trinity Secondhand Booksale / Ann Budd The foundation of the Conservation Laboratory / W.E. Vaughan 'Must do better' : enhancing the collections of early printed books and special collections / Charles Benson.