The house that

Pearse built:

opening the Hutchinson

ArchiveHugh Murphy & Ciara Joyce14 May 2015 #PH2015

September 2012 – November 2013

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The Pearse Hutchinson Archive

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Why [not] take this collection?

• Thematic relevance• Potential for teaching, learning and research• Potential as cultural / heritage resource– Local interest

• Challenge– Size– Diversity

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Thematic relevance

“OUTSIDERS”

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Teaching, learning and research

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Culture and heritage

Support and research needs

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Work on the collection

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Work on the collection - conservation

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Work on the collection - listing

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Family History

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Henry & Caitlín

‘they fell in love,

so to speak, for Ireland’s

sake’

Pearse Hutchinson, Poetry Ireland Review 52, 1997

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Politics

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Politics

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Childhood

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Literary career

For Alan Walking home tonightthinking about you, a poem about youbegan in my head and by the timeI was halfway home it was finished

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Literary career

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Literary career

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Literary career

Original scripts for radio show Óró Domhnaigh Letters of appreciation from Óró Domhnaigh listeners

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Literary career

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Literary career

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Correspondence and photographs

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Literary correspondence

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Literary correspondence

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Literary correspondence

‘I think you were the first Irishman I took to my heart’ Saul Bellow

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Cultural events & interests

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Cultural events and interests

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Writing by others

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Access to the archive:

ciara.joyce@nuim.ie 01 4747422

www.maynoothuniversity.ie/library www.mulibrarytreasures.wordpress.com

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