Special Collections and Archives has acquired some interesting new titles, including A Brief Record of the Female Orphan House, North Circular Road, Dublin, for over one hundred years, from 1790 to 1892 which was printed by Sealy, Bryers and Walker in 1893, as well as a print of the Founders of the Irish Clerical Workers’ Union (established in 1917). Other titles include a range of pamphlets on various topics printed by the Roman Catholic bookseller R. Coyne who was a printer and bookseller to St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth in the early 19th century. Another work recently acquired by the Library is Commentarius Sermonis Hebraici by Johannis Coccei which was printed in Amsterdam in 1669 and which constitutes a fully indexed dictionary of Hebrew words of the Old Testament.
To access the collection or for more information please contact library.specialcollections@mu.ie or 01 4747423