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Christian Dupont is Burns Librarian and Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at Boston College, USA.

Articles by Christian Dupont

Mid-century showcase
Heritage

Mid-century showcase


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Embroidered Cloths
Heritage

Embroidered Cloths

Christian Dupont compares two embroideries illustrating an enigmatic poem by WB Yeats from the collection of Burns Library at Boston College

 


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Strength of Dragons
Heritage

Strength of Dragons

Christian Dupont reflects on the personal and political desires conveyed in two cartoons by Grace Gifford Plunkett


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Vox Hibernae
Museums and Collections

Vox Hibernae


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Celtic Wonder
Museums and Collections

Celtic Wonder


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Just doodling
Museums and Collections

Just doodling

Christian Dupont considers the doodles on the cover of a notebook Flann O’Brien kept as secretary for the 1943 Cavan orphanage fire tribunal


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Noble Nobels
Museums and Collections

Noble Nobels

Christian Dupont unveils Rowan Gillespie’s Four Irish Nobel Literary Laureates at Boston College.


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Strange bedfellows
Heritage

Strange bedfellows


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To the waters and the wild
Museums and Collections

To the waters and the wild

A Micheál Mac Liammóir watercolour leads Christian Dupont back to Yeats’ ‘The Stolen Child’


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Proud freedom’s oath
Museums and Collections

Proud freedom’s oath

Christian Dupont looks at autograph books from women imprisoned during the Civil War


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Spied piper
Museums and Collections

Spied piper

Christian Dupont espies John Behan’s unused drawings for Thomas Kinsella’s ‘Glenmacnass’.


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Salvaged arts
Museums and Collections

Salvaged arts

Christian Dupont applauds typographer, designer and letterpress printer Jamie Murphy, founder of The Salvage Press


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Lover’s lovers
Museums and Collections

Lover’s lovers


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Maud’s Mary?
Artists

Maud’s Mary?

A drawing of the Virgin attributed to Maud Gonne leaves Christian Dupont wondering


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Stallion eternity
Museums and Collections

Stallion eternity

Christian Dupont outlines the multitalented and free-spirited life of Juanita Casey


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Flanntasmagoria!
Museums and Collections

Flanntasmagoria!

Christian Dupont probes the interplay of literary and visual arts in an exhibition inspired by Flann O’Brien and The Third Policeman.


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