Lecture | Stories, landscapes and folklore: early investigations of Ireland in Armagh Robinson Library’s collections.
Image credit: Ian Maginess
Dr Eamon Darcy from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at Maynooth University and Dr Ciaran Wallace, Programme Director for the Virtual Treasury of Ireland gave a joint talk on the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI).
The VRTI is making digital images freely available on-line via https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/curated…/local-history
Several books from the Library’s collection were digitised for the project.
Lecture | Gulliver Amongst Friends
Image credit: Ian Maginess
Author Hester Grant gave the lecture ‘Gulliver Amongst Friends’ on Wednesday. It was great to see our faithful supporters and to welcome those visiting Armagh Robinson Library for the first time.
The lecture was one of the many to be given this autumn to highlight the 300th anniversary of the publication of Jonathan Swift’s work Gulliver’s Travels.
In March 1726 Jonathan Swift travelled from Dublin to London with the manuscript of Gulliver’s Travels in his baggage. He spent the summer with his close friends Alexander Pope and John Gay, at Pope’s villa on the Thames at Twickenham, wandering through Pope’s beautiful garden and grotto, boating downriver to visit newly built Marble Hill, and plotting the clandestine publication of Gulliver’s Travels.
