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Who reads ULYSSES?

by Bean an Phoist on June 12, 2012 · 0 comments

in Bloomsday,Guest Bloggers

by Rob Berry, Cartoonist on ULYSSES “SEEN” “If you can put your finger through it, it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see.”  – James Joyce The quality of art; it really is just a matter of perception, after all. But perception should, I believe, be based on a personal [...]

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How It Is – The Beckett Clodd Collection

by Bean an Phoist on December 19, 2011 · 8 comments

in Acquisitions,Cataloguing,Collections,Conservation,Printed books

by Máire Ní Chonalláin, Assistant Keeper II The Samuel Beckett Collection which belonged to the author’s London bookseller friend, Alan Clodd, has been catalogued. We were fortunate enough to acquire this collection in 2006. The private collection of the Nobel prize-winner’s work is highly regarded as it contains virtually all of Beckett’s works in first [...]

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