Queen's University Belfast
Queen's University Belfast was originally established as 'Queen's College, Belfast' in 1845 as one of three colleges in Ireland. It was raised to the status of a full university in 1908 with its own Charter and Statutes. The Special Collections at Queen's University Library comprise the Library's rare and early printed books, map and manuscript collections, as well as more modern material relating to Ireland, and Ulster in particular. The books, pamphlets, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and maps held in Special Collections are considered to be of lasting research value and include incunabula, STC and Wing items.
Special Collections is open to the academic community at QUB and outside researchers. An appointment is not necessary, though it may be useful to contact the Office in advance if reference assistance is needed.
The Manuscript Collections comprise material from the twelfth century on, with a particular bias towards the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Papers relating to politics, music and language in eighteenth century Ireland contrast with politics, culture and business in nineteenth and early twentieth century China. Included in the collections are the personal and literary papers of Irish writers Somerville and Ross, Ulster writers Helen Waddell, William Allingham and Thomas Carnduff amongst others, notes and papers of academics Thomas Andrews, James Thomson, R.M. Henry and Charles MacDouall.
We hope to make thirty one manuscript collections available on the Archives Hub.
Opening Times
Term Time:
Monday-Thursday 09.00-21.30
Friday 09.00-20.00
Vacation:
Monday - Friday 09.00-17.00
Saturday 09.00-12.30
Location
First Floor of the Main Library, University Square, Belfast BT7 1LS
Special features: Somerville and Ross, Irish Melodies
Address: Special Collections, Main Library, Queen's University, BELFAST BT7 1LS
Telephone: +44 (0)28 90973607 Fax: +44 (0)28 90323340
Email: specialcollections@qub.ac.uk Web: www.qub.ac.uk/lib
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- Brett Manuscript Collection
- Bunting Manuscript Collection
- Charles MacDouall Papers
- Ewart Map Collection
- Forrest Reid Collection
- Foster Pamphlet Collection
- Gaelic Manuscripts
- Godfrey W Ferguson Papers
- Hamilton Harty Papers
- Helen Waddell Papers
- Herbert Moore Pim Collection
- James Thomson Manuscript Collection
- Judge James J. Shaw Collection
- Newport Papers
- Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority Archive
- O'Shaughnessy Papers
- Orientalia Collection
- Otto Kyllmann Papers
- Professor Charles MacDouall Collection
- R.H. Charles Papers
- R.M. Henry Papers
- Reginalia Collection
- Robert Shipboy MacAdam Manuscript
- Ross-Rosenzweig Collection
- Seamus Heaney Centre Digital Archive: Public Poetry Readings
- Shan F. Bullock Manuscript Collection
- Sir Robert Hart Collection (Correspondence, journals, photographs)
- Somerville and Ross Manuscript Collection
- Stanley Fowler Wright Papers
- Stephen Gilbert Collection
- Theophile Piry Collection
- Thomas Carnduff Archive
- Thomas Francis O'Rahilly Papers
- William Allingham Papers
