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Total number of records: 576

Count of Record type

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Books and printed items555
Archives13
Indexes6
Textiles2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection139
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History53
English Literature50
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections13
Herbert Read Collection13
Quaker Collection13
Cookery Collection12
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society6
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman4
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society3

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
monuments53
historic buildings32
architecture, georgian31
decorative arts29
english literature18
english poetry15
furniture13
irish question9
english in ireland8
country homes7

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Ireland576
Great Britain148
Northern Ireland13
England10
Scotland7
Dublin6
France3
Irlande3
Wales3
British Isles2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)99
Irish Georgian Society54
Beeverell, James26
Leland, Thomas (1722-1785)16
Hall, Mrs S C (1800-1881)14
Hughes, William (1817-1876)13
Great Britain. Parliament12
Hall, S C (1800-1889)12
Hamilton, N E S A (1915)12
Hamilton, N. E. S. A12

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From 15001
From 160039
From 1700132
From 1800156
From 1900176
From 200024

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Up to 169939
Up to 1799130
Up to 1899153
Up to 1999178
Up to latest27

Archive File

Coffey family in "Tinkering Around," article. [Photographs]

Nov/1959

Set of six black and white photographs for an article, "Tinkering Around," showing the Coffey family, a Gypsy/Traveller family living in Killarney, Ireland 1959.

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Mar, 2002, Galway

Oct 2000 - Nov 2001

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture in March 2002 at the National University of Ireland.

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Nov, 2001, Dublin

Sep 2000 - Nov 2001

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of lectures "Is speed killing us? Time in Technology and the Workplace" and "Running to stand still: Time and the Global". The lectures were part of...

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Nov, 2008, Dublin

May 2007 - Nov 2008

Correspondence inviting Zygmunt Bauman's to a project titled "Body City" on 16-18 November 2008.

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May, 2007, Dublin

Feb 2007 - May 2007

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture at "Research Day" on 8 May 2007 at University College Dublin.

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Nov 2001, Dublin

May 2001 - Nov 2001

Correspondence inviting Zygmunt Bauman to take part in the "Speed Limits" conference.

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European Society of Paediatric Nephrology, 6th Annual Meeting, Dublin

26 Jul 1972-7 Oct 1972

Papers relating to Frank Parsons' attendance at the meeting, including correspondence; copy of a summary paper; two copies of the programme for the event, one with full abstracts; and a copy of the Co...

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Field Recordings of the Dialect of Emper

Nally, Edward

1970

This file contains ms. fieldwork sheets, as used for the Survey of English Dialects (SED), recording answers to the SED questionnaire in phonetic script for Emper, County Westmeath, Ireland. The recor...

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The antiquities of Ireland (v.1)

Grose, Francis (1731?-1791); Ledwich, Edward (1738-1823)

1791-95

Engr. t.-p. Plates dated 1791-95. Grose's name does not appear on t.-p. of v. 2. After the death of Grose, who had "written and printed but seven pages of description," the work was completed by Edw...

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The antiquities of Ireland (v.2)

Grose, Francis (1731?-1791); Ledwich, Edward (1738-1823)

1791-95

Engr. t.-p. Plates dated 1791-95. Grose's name does not appear on t.-p. of v. 2. After the death of Grose, who had "written and printed but seven pages of description," the work was completed by Edw...

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Guilielmi Herberti equitis aurati Croftus, sive de Hibernia liber

Herbert, Sir William (1553?-1593); Buckley, William Edward (1817?-1892); Roxburghe Club

1887

Presented to the Roxburghe club by Earl of Powis. "Note" signed: W. E. Buckley. Latin treatise on Ireland, named in honor of Sir James Croft, the lord lieutenant.

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The industrial resources of Ireland

Kane, Sir Robert John (1809-1890)

1844

Errata slip inserted.

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