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Elaine Harrington

@walkerabroad.bsky.social

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Interim Head of Special Collections & Archives, UCC Library. Chair LAI Munster; Treasurer LAI Rare Books. Member LAI Executive Council 2023-2026. Co-founder SHOCC Project. Using technology to connect people with ideas. linktr.ee/walkerabroad HereSept2023

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Elaine Harrington @walkerabroad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

RP with your home river

Reflections of a sunset on a river with lights on in buildings and a crane in the background.

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Elaine Harrington @walkerabroad.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We’ve a late 18th century Irish language manuscript with a seal-skin binding @theriversideucc.bsky.social @ucclibrary.bsky.social Élodie Lévêque confirmed it with a microscope some years ago. The images show how under a microscope the binding resembles fish scales.

Five images / two of a seal skin bound manuscript, and three photos of a portion of that manuscript taken by using a microscope zooming in. The zoomed in images resemble fish scales that overlap.

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Elaine Harrington @walkerabroad.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Discover connections between Frederick Douglass & Cork when using a book as object approach & focusing on paratextual & textual elements: “Examining a Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” libguides.ucc.ie/displayingha... #DouglassDay @theriversideucc.bsky.social @ucclibrary.bsky.social

Front cover to the second edition of the ‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.’ The title is written in gold lettering on the front of the brown cover.

Portrait of Frederick Douglass from his second autobiography “My Bondage and My Freedom.”

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Elaine Harrington @walkerabroad.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Thanks I did as part of the project in 2022. Emma Horgan & I described our efforts on a @theriversideucc.bsky.social blog post theriverside.ucc.ie/2022/03/14/p... #recipes #PiDay

Selection of images showing the baking process.

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Elaine Harrington @walkerabroad.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Not quite! Imagine how the thought ‘Lets create a hazelnut flavour liqueur colour it with caramel & place it in a bottle as so. Now what to call it?”

A bottle of Frangelico. The distinctive brown bottle is designed to resemble a friar in his habit.

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Elaine Harrington @walkerabroad.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

What is your favourite red-leafed tree @ucc.bsky.social?

Tree behind railing. Sunlight is shining on the tree. Red leaves are on the ground.

Red leaves are on the ground. Trees behind.

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Elaine Harrington @walkerabroad.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

On #InternationalWomensDay Emma Horgan @theriversideucc.bsky.social will present on Elizabeth Friedlander at Library Association of Ireland online Munster Regional Section AGM at 15:00-16:00 Friday 8 March. All are welcome to attend this free event but registration is essential: bit.ly/LAIAGM2024

Headed paper for Penguin publishing house. A stylised black penguin between the numbers, 2 and 5. The numbers are written in orange.

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Elaine Harrington @walkerabroad.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

You’ve been kidnapped and the characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? Well if they fail at least I know they can keep trying!

Six main characters from 12 Monkeys TV show.

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Elaine Harrington @walkerabroad.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

The first of three classes today arrived at 9:30 to view Medieval & Renaissance English items & items of modernity. One book treated like a scrapbook? What does the music on the #fragment sound like? How are titles/images representative of ‘modernity’? Lots to answer! @theriversideucc.bsky.social

Endpapers of a book with pictures stuck onto them

Parchment fragment with text and music score stuck into binding of book

Two books on a book cushion: time is a squirrel by Rhoda Coghill and hello eternity by Blanaid Salkeld.

Two books showing images of modernity a train on tracks next to an electric pole with wires the second image is of figures in the city

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Elaine Harrington @walkerabroad.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Earlier this week we used the same items for 50 students in 4 different classes: Imperial history item & political cartoons for two 3rd year history modules & MA in #DH; an Irish language manuscript for MA in Early & Medieval Irish & MA in #DH. Our items are multidisciplinary. #UCCLibrary #UCC

An Irish language manuscript: On the left is the Irish script and on the right is a hand-drawn early 19th century map of Europe showing trade routes.

The hand-written Minute Book of the Library Committee at UCC for the mid-19th century. On the right are recommended books to be purchased for students' use. These books are in Special Collections.

A print from Hogarth's Tour. The image shows a body without a head holding a flag. The body is upright and is in front of a castle.

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