Ware’s accumulation of manuscripts is significant not only because of its scale but also because it reveals the breadth of his scholarly interests. In 1648 he published Librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca Jacobi Waræi equities aur. catalogus—apparently the only book printed in Dublin in that year—which details many of the documents that were in his personal … Read more
Ware possessed an enormous collection of manuscripts. The vast majority of these are housed in the National Library of Ireland, Trinity College, Dublin, the British Library and the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It is not hard to understand what Ussher meant when he praised his friend for being ‘an industrious searcher of ye antiquities of … Read more
The federal subpoena served on 5 May 2011 on the John J. Burns Library of Boston College established that events occurring as long ago as December 1972 have the capacity to destabilise variously the academic, legal and political affairs of the present. Assumptions that the First Amendment of the US Constitution would guard against this … Read more
March 4 1972 Two people were killed and a further 136 were injured when the Provisional IRA bombed the Abercorn Restaurant in Belfast. 9 1932 The seventh Dáil Éireann assembled. Eamon de Valera formed the first Fianna Fáil government with the backing of the Labour Party. 11 1812 William Wallace, violinist and composer, born in … Read more
cross 1 A celebrated chalice was discovered here in 1868 (6). 4 This hospital was founded in 1839 to care for sick Protestants (8). 9 He served as Church of Ireland archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland in the seventeenth century (6). 10 Ian Smith served as its prime minister from 1964 to … Read more