Rachel Daly

We hope many of you were lucky enough to witness those beautifully rare night skies over the weekend ✨ In celebration we’re sharing these images from ‘Aurorae: their characteristics and spectra’ by J.Rand Capron, from the RCScI collection #AuroraBorealis #UCD #rarebooks

Something sharp made its way cleanly through the binding & about 300 pages of this 17th century volume of tracts. We're thinking small sharp blade or maybe baby basilisk tooth.

Elizabeth Corbet Yeats was born #OTD in 1868. Her picturesque printer’s device, seen here, was used throughout the illustrious existence of the Cuala Press #printing #printersdevice #ucd #specialcolletions #library #womenartists #remembering

It's the 1st of #March and counties across Ireland been hit with a cold snap, and a heavy blanket of snow! 🌨️ ❄️ [IMAGE: Men shovelling #snow into the #Liffey, #BurghQuay, #Dublin on 11 February 1936; catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000….]

Very proud to launch our Ethical Cataloguing Guidelines for UCD Digital Library. Compiled by our metadata librarian, Órna Roche, this is our commitment to describing material accurately, respectfully, and in a way that will not cause distress or offence. 💻n2t.net/ark:/87925/h19…

@UCDDigital @UCDLibrary @ucddublin Loving this! Well done, Órna.

Hilma Af Klint, From the Swan series, 1913-1916 #WomensArt #fullmoon

Sometimes the most simple bindings are the most pleasing. Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins was published posthumously in 1918. View our copy, once owned by John Sweeney, @MoLI_Museum Ink & Imagination exhibition.

Take a look at these beautiful monochromatic woodcuts, found dotted throughout this 1870’s text on the law of storms ☁️ 🌬️ 🌀

More folktales for today's #UCDAdvent! This snowy scene is one of the beautifully illustrated pages in a bind up of two folktales by Pushkin - 'The Tale of The Golden Cockerel' and 'Fairytale of the Tsar Saltan'. It was published in 1904 with illustrations by Ivan Bilibin.

Welcome to the book hospital at Marsh's Library where the wait to be seen is almost 300 years.....

A chapbookof Christmas Enterntainments, published in 1740, 'wherein is described abundance of fiddle-faddle-stuff' (and much more, including the 'Curious Memoirs of Old Father Christmas'). NFC 400.A.75 #UCDAdvent

Tove Jansson (1957) from Moominland Midwinter. Moomintroll, unlike his family who hibernate, decides to stay up through the harsh winter. It is a tale of endurance, acceptance and learning to live with the discomfort of uncertainty #WomensArt

Warming flavours of saffron, ginger and chile for a grey winter's day in Dublin!

Hark, #UCDAdvent is here! Our first post is this delightful herald, found in 'A Book of Pictured Carols', designed by students at the Birmingham Art School and printed by the Chiswick Press in 1893. In 1956, Colm Ó Lochlainn gave this as a gift to his daughter Afric 🎄🎁 (5.E.27)

Old ad for Zip firelighters. #Ireland

Published in 1900, 'Roman architecture, sculpture and ornament: selected examples from Piranesi's monumental work, first published in Rome, 1756' is one of the largest books in our holdings, measuring in at 58 x 80 cms! (UCD SC W1.J.3) #EYABig #EYAMór #ExploreYourArchives