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A treasure trove of unseen writing by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney reveals a vital creative friendship

14 Nov 2020

A unique archive acquired by Pembroke College Cambridge transforms our understanding of the two poets, showing how they drew career-defining...

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National Library of Ireland, Manuscript G11 403a10. Image, Irish Scripts on Screen www.isos.dias.ie

Lost Irish words rediscovered, including the word for ‘oozes pus'

30 Aug 2019

Researchers from Cambridge and Queen’s University Belfast have identified and defined 500 Irish words, many of which had been lost, and unlocked the...

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Ireland’s Troy?

23 Apr 2014

As Ireland marks the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf – portrayed as a heroic encounter between Irish and Vikings which defined the nation’s...

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Irish tenants are evicted and their homes torn down under the supervision of troops

Whose fault is famine? What the world failed to learn from 1840s Ireland

19 Jul 2011

A new book by a Cambridge University academic revisits one of the worst famines in recorded history. The Irish Famine of the 1840s had terrible...

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John Speed's proof map of Cambridgeshire

Mapping the origins of a masterpiece

21 Apr 2011

Published 400 years ago, the first comprehensive atlas of Great Britain is being celebrated by Cambridge University Library, home to one of only five...

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Extract from the 1641 Depositions at Trinity College Dublin Library

Eyewitness accounts of 1641 Irish rebellion released

25 Oct 2010

The first-hand testimonies of thousands of people who witnessed the bloody rebellion that paved the way for centuries of sectarian conflict in...

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under the sea

Under the sea

27 Mar 2008

Scientists explore huge volume of molten rock now frozen into the crust under the ocean’s floor.

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Deposition taken from a witness  to the 1641 Irish rebellion

Rebellion, repression, retribution

01 Feb 2008

John Morrill explores one of the most extraordinary and least understood aspects of Anglo-Irish history - the rebellion of 1641.

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Chicharo

The Copyright Cup

06 Jun 2007

Books were replaced by boots as a team from Cambridge University Library travelled to Edinburgh last weekend for the inaugural Copyright Cup football...

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Cambridge students triumph at science, engineering and technology awards.

02 Oct 2006

Two Cambridge students have collected prizes at the UK’s most important awards ceremony for science and engineering undergraduates.

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