Special Collections & Archives hold a large number of subject areas including Ulster, Ireland, History, Politics, Economics, Theology, Philosophy, Literature and Language. Our subject guides highlight key subject strengths within our collections. A number of routes to search our collections are offered below.
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Special Collections & Archives
The McClay Library | Queen's University Belfast | 10 College Park | Belfast | BT7 1LP
028 9097 6333 | specialcollections@qub.ac.uk
Head of Special Collections & Archives: Deirdre Wildy | 028 9097 6218 | d.wildy@qub.ac.uk
Our Manuscript Collections can be explored through detailed listings available on our Manuscripts web page.
The University Archive can be searched through a number of resources available on our Archives web page. A number of items have been catalogued and are available on the University Archive Catalogue.
The full text of the majority of books published in English before 1800 are available on Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists most books published in this period.
Reference books dealing with early printed and rare books are also available in the Special Collections & Archives Reading Room.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
ECCO contains the full-text of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800 – 135,000 printed works comprising more than 26 million scanned facsimile pages.
The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800 mainly, but not exclusively, in English. Works contained are published mainly in the British Isles and North America, and are from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries
After the Train
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Forgotten Heroes of Ireland's Great Hunger
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The Oxford Handbook of Irish English
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Women, Politics, and the Irish Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution
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Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction
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Thomas Hobbes and Political Thought in Ireland C. 1660- C. 1730
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