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New online resource: Goodman Manuscripts (free resource)

Goodman Manuscripts FREE resource, launched October 2016.laoidh-na-buadhachta-beag

James Goodman (1828-1896), a native of Dingle, Co. Kerry, was a student and later, the Professor of Irish (appointed in 1879), at Trinity College Dublin. He was also a canon of the Church of Ireland. During his lifetime he compiled an exceptional collection of Irish traditional music and song and four manuscripts were deposited in TCD Library following his death. A further two manuscripts came to light more recently, and they too have been deposited in TCD Library.

In collaboration with TCD, the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) has digitised, and made freely available online, the six manuscript volumes now kept in TCD Library. The manuscripts contain over 2,000 melodies and upwards of 80 songs or poems. These were compiled by Canon Goodman from the oral, manuscript and printed sources at his disposal in mid-19th century southern Ireland.

This digital project enhances the published scholarly editions Tunes of the Munster Pipers Volume 1 and Volume 2 edited by Hugh and Lisa Shields (ITMA, 1998 & 2013)

There is interactive score access via Port

There is access to the Goodman Manuscripts from the Library’s Databases and E-Books page and also under the section, New Resources there.

Read the Music Librarian, Roy Stanley’s article on the Goodman Manuscripts on the M&ARL blog.

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NEW online resource for the Library: French-language E-Books, Autrement Mêmes collection / dirigée par Roger Little

The Library of Trinity College Dublin has recently purchased access to 51 titles from the Autrement Mêmes collection, published by L’Harmattan, Paris. 

Autrement Memes collection Le ConquérantAbove is one title from the collection directed by Professor Roger Little (Fellow Emeritus (French), TCD). The Library has purchased access to 51 titles, out of a total of 122, to date.

According to Professor Little, the texts in the collection ‘are difficult to find, often available only in specialised libraries, sometimes indeed extremely rare […] all genres and all relevant periods are covered, mainly prose texts, however, from the 18th century to the latter part of French colonialism’.

Each title can be found catalogued individually in the Trinity Library system, Stella, and all 51 titles can be seen together on the database Autrement Mêmes.

For a full list of TCD Library’s databases of journals and E-Books, current, new, and on trial, use the Databases and E-Books link on the Library homepage, found under the Stella search box.

Clíona Ní Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian.

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Public Event: John Banville in conversation with Professor Chris Morash 02/12/15

“Glancing encounters are no good”: Humanities research and the creative process.

The fourth event presented as part of the Library of Trinity College Dublin’s “The Library of the Future; the Future of the Library” programme of activities for 2015-2016 takes place on Wednesday 2 December 2015.

Trinity’s excellence in humanities research draws on the literary treasures among the Library’s unique and distinct collections. Notable among these literary archives are the papers of Booker prize-winner John Banville. On the occasion of the publication of his most recent novel The Blue Guitar, John Banville will talk to Chris Morash, Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing at Trinity. Continue reading “Public Event: John Banville in conversation with Professor Chris Morash 02/12/15”