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Irish Texts in State Library Victoria’s Rare Books Collection

Melbourne Rare Book Week

Event Date: 29 July 2026 04:00 PM to 29 July 2026 05:00 PM
Author / Presenters: Kevin Molloy
Event Venue: State Library Victoria
Event Organiser: Melbourne Rare Book Week

State Library Victoria houses a range of important Irish works that document the history of printing in Latin, Irish and English. This viewing will explore a range of unusual historical, linguistic and literary works, the debates they generated, and their representation of continuing literary traditions. Featured will be texts from the seventeenth to the twentieth century by authors such as Roderic O’Flaherty (1629-1718) and Thomas Carve (1590-1672), the Paris works of Hugh MacCurtin (1680-1755) and James Joyce, through to the migrant fiction of Mary Ann Sadlier and literary texts of the Celtic Revival.

Held at the Digital Laboratory, SLV.

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