"The house that Pearse built: opening the Hutchinson Archive"

The house that

Pearse built:

opening the Hutchinson

ArchiveHugh Murphy & Ciara Joyce14 May 2015 #PH2015

September 2012 – November 2013

Maynooth University Library

The Pearse Hutchinson Archive


Why [not] take this collection?

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

• Challenge– Size– Diversity


Thematic relevance

“OUTSIDERS”


Teaching, learning and research


Culture and heritage

Support and research needs


Work on the collection


Work on the collection - conservation


Work on the collection - listing


Family History


Henry & Caitlín

‘they fell in love,

so to speak, for Ireland’s

sake’

Pearse Hutchinson, Poetry Ireland Review 52, 1997


Politics


Childhood


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


Literary career


Literary career

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


Literary career


Correspondence and photographs


Literary correspondence


Literary correspondence

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


Cultural events & interests


Cultural events and interests


Writing by others


Access to the archive:

[email protected] 01 4747422

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


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