See the Collections in Special Collections page for a full A-Z listing of each collection for more information about a collection and how it can be used.
Special Collections holds the following types of collections:
- Manuscripts: Gaelic Irish, English and other languages
- Maps: estate maps, ordnance survey, city plans
- Microform: surrogate form for original items, viewed on a reader/printer or reader/scanner
- Newspapers: available on microfilm and in bound volumes.
- Prints: Political, Portrait, Topographical
- Photographs: Portrait, Topographical
- Theses: Masters theses to 2013; PhD theses to 2020.
- Named Collections: collections donated by individuals
- Collections on a theme: Munster Printing, Transmissions and Transformations of the Ancient World, Humour
- Collections from Printing Presses: Attic Press, Cork University Press, Cuala Press, Dolmen Press, Three Candles Press, Road Press, Gayfield Press, Coracle Press, Coracle Press Business Library.
- Older Printed Books: books from 1476 - 1850 covering subjects such as theology, sciences and history.
Check with Special Collections staff for the finding aid for manuscripts on microfilm and the finding aid for paper manuscripts.
