{"id":8380,"date":"2023-02-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=8380"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:39:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T19:39:16","slug":"printing-the-nation-a-century-of-irish-book-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/printing-the-nation-a-century-of-irish-book-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Printing the Nation: A Century of Irish Book Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Please note that the corridor outside RBSC is temporarily narrowed to a pedestrian tunnel due to ongoing library renovations<\/a>, but we generally remain open during our regular hours (Monday through Friday, 9:30am – 4:30pm.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This semester\u2019s exhibit, \u201cPrinting the Nation: A Century of Irish Book Arts\u201d curated by Aed\u00edn N\u00ed Bhr\u00f3ithe Clements<\/a>, invites visitors to look beyond the text and consider other aspects of books in our Irish collection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Little Book of the Blessed Eucharist<\/em>. Verses by Brian O’Higgins.
Scribe work and ornament by M\u00edche\u00e1l Ua Briain. Printed by Colm O Lochlainn. Dublin: Brian O\u2019Higgins, 1931.
Special Coll. Rare Books Small PR 6029 .H5 L58 1931<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To highlight the influence of early art on Irish book decoration and illustration in the early twentieth century, we have ‘borrowed’ the fine art facsimile Book of Kells from the Paleography Room on the 7th floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Book of Kells. Fine Art Facsimile Edition<\/em>. Faksimile-Verlag Luzern, 1989.
Medieval [7th floor] Paleography (Rm. 715Q) \u2022 ND 3359 .K4 B65 1990<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Pressmark of the Three Candles Press. Clann Lir.<\/em> Rewritten by M\u00edche\u00e1l \u00d3 Colm\u00e1in and illustrated by Abhuist\u00edn \u00d3 Maolaoidh. Cl\u00f3 na gCoinneal, c. 1928.
Special Coll. Rare Books Large PB 1397 .A29 O36 1925z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Chapters of the history of the book in Ireland include the stories of printing presses, and we have selected a small sampling from our extensive collections of important presses such as the Cuala Press founded by the Yeats sisters, Colm \u00d3 Lochlainn’s Three Candles Press, and the Dolmen Press of Liam Miller. Contemporary printing presses are also represented, with a limited edition from Salvage Press and the 1916 commemorative book 16<\/em> which was published by Stoney Road Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibit’s title poster incorporates an illustration by Liam Miller, from the cover of Ten Poems<\/em> by Padraic Colum, which is featured in the first case. The fonts in the poster, American Uncial and Pilgrim, were selected to reflect choices made by Irish printers. The poster was designed by Sara Weber<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Irish language posed particular challenges for printers up to the 1960s when the standard of Irish language became the Roman alphabet. Throughout the exhibition, various examples are displayed of the styles of lettering used for Irish language titles and text. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An B\u00e9al Bo\u010bt n\u00f3 An Mille\u00e1na\u010b: Dro\u010b-sg\u00e9al ar an Dro\u010b-shao\u0121al<\/em>, curtha i n-eagar le (edited by) Myles na gCopaleen. Dublin: An Preas N\u00e1isi\u00fanta, 1941.
Special Coll. (MR) Small PB 1399 .O59 B4 1942<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The aspect of typefaces in the Irish language will be the subject of a lecture later in the semester:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Changing Face of Irish Writing\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lecture by Brian \u00d3 Conchubhair, Associate Professor of Irish Language and Literature, University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The date of this lecture will be announced later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibit is open Monday – Friday, through July 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tours of the exhibit may be arranged for classes and other groups, and additional curator-led tours are available at 12 noon on the following Fridays:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

February 24
March 10 and 31
April 7 and 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please note that the corridor outside RBSC is temporarily narrowed to a pedestrian tunnel due to ongoing library renovations, but we generally remain open during our regular hours (Monday through Friday, 9:30am – 4:30pm.) This semester\u2019s exhibit, \u201cPrinting the Nation: A Century of Irish Book Arts\u201d curated by Aed\u00edn N\u00ed Bhr\u00f3ithe Clements, invites visitors to look … Continue reading Printing the Nation: A Century of Irish Book Arts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":8386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5065,75050,75053,12646],"tags":[77938,77960,77931],"class_list":["post-8380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-exhibits","category-irish-studies","category-miscellaneous","tag-book","tag-broadsides-prints-posters","tag-printed-ephemera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8380"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8450,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions\/8450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}