Emma Rothwell

Having a cracking day with @annewelsh.bsky.social on this training! One of the many pleasures of being the secretary of the @laibluesky.bsky.social Rare Books Group...

You've got just over an hour to get here for this!

The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 P 26, the Book of Fenagh. This 16th century manuscript is mainly a revision of an older Book of St Caillín which no longer survives. The mark the manuscript’s 500th anniversary in 2016, an online exhibition was created and two lunchtime lectures were delivered

All the learning! Hurray! 🙌

Dublin, sure you're only gorgeous.

Discover how libraries are helping the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland to recover Ireland's history.

Join us for a lecture with Dr Sarah Hendriks and see the RIA Library's physical exhibition. 3pm, Wednesday 8 October. Visit https://www.ria.ie/events/ for booking

@virtualtreasury.bsky.social

We've had a great month of provenance adventuring with Madeline and I can't wait to share more soon!

By consulting the English Short Title Catalogue, and assuming the mindset of a Victorian, scissor-wielding lunatic, I have at last figured out what imprint I am looking at... another win for pedantic cataloguers everywhere!

À demain!

Incipit page of St Gallen Schriftsbibliothek Cod. Sang. 60

Hereford Cathedral Library P.1.2 Hereford Gospels Mark incipit.

I had read about the similarity between the Hereford Gospels and some of the St. Gallen manuscripts, but WOW. Look at those swirls! So grateful for the opportunity to go see Words on the Wave last Friday.

Not sure if the cataloguing shaming here is more inspiring or terrifying.

Oooh! I'm going in September- do share the itinerary as you go!!

✨ Culture Night at the Royal Irish Academy ✨

Step inside this Georgian gem and explore the Library Reading Room, where the earliest example of Irish writing, the 6th century Cathach will be on display 📜.

Find out more: https://culturenight.ie/event/culture-night-at-the-royal-irish-academy/

Julia Roberts to narrate new BBC series Leonard and Hungry Paul The feel-good series follows two board-gaming friends in their thirties who meander through leafy suburban life finding solace in their quiet routines

Twenty years ago we re-mortgaged our house to start Bluemoose and find great new writers who were being overlooked by the industry.

In the last 2 years we've had 2 BBC TV series adapted from books we published.

Not bad eh!

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

A very jolly time with the Earls of Ormond at Kilkenny Arts Festival a few weeks ago, which I kept forgetting to share!

Great stuff @clairedunne.bsky.social !! 👏

Collections 🤝 Crafters

Absolute magic

The cover of a 1928 Pocket Dictionary featuring a smartly dressed gentleman.

The cover of Everywoman's Dictionary from 1928, featuring an elegant woman sitting at a writing desk. She is wearing a blue drop-waisted dress which one must assume has no pockets.

Because as we know, women very rarely have pockets 😢@theulspeccoll.bsky.social 1928.6 178 and 1928.6.179.

Come along to this lunchtime lecture if you love birds, records, museums or any combination of the above!

Why choose, when you can have it all?? 😍

Meet the independent, fierce, proactive women of medieval Ireland Translators of medieval romances reshaped stories to portray Irish women as more independent and proactive than their English counterparts

Meet the fiercely independent women of medieval Ireland #speirgorm www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Rylands BlogIntroducing the Early European Print collection John Gandy, Incunabula Cataloguer at the John Rylands Library, talks about the newly published early printing collection on Manchester Digital Collections

We are delighted to announce the first batch of the new Early European Print collection, now freely available to explore online here: www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/...

Read more about collection and some of its highlights in our latest blog post: ow.ly/g1MH50WxSmH

A snail climbing precariously up a dead poppy stalk and extending its head to stick its face into the seed head.

Find someone who loves you like this snail loves the poppy seed head in my garden.

Oh, it's a h. Of course!

Oh fantastic, thank you! The ink blot on the flourish made me think it was an 'iu' in the middle, which seemed all wrong!

Help! Anyone able to make out this former owner's name? Probably Irish language?

Native trees may not always be the best choice for Dublin as the climate changes, says city tree officer “Not all native species will survive what’s coming,” he told Dublin city councillors on the climate committee.

“We’re close to drought conditions this year. We’ve been out watering trees all over the city. We need trees that can resist both flood and drought. Not all native species will survive what’s coming.”

www.dublininquirer.com/native-trees...

I reckon Sir Walter Elliot was a fan of the Morning Chronicle.

#JaneAusten #Persuasion

Catching up on From That Small Island on RTÉ - fantastic! Just two nitpicks: the papyrus font for the document recreations (the Irish script is really famous) and the academic wandering into the stacks to retrieve an archival box herself is literally the most unrealistic thing I've ever seen on TV.