Elizabeth Mullins

University College Dublin | UCD · School of History

The archives of religious organisations are some of the most significant, contested and least accessible repositories in Ireland. The decreasing size of the country’s Roman Catholic religious congregations and the reorganisation of dioceses means that these archives also represent some of the island’s most endangered collections. Aiming to address...

The archives of religious organisations are some of the most significant, contested and least accessible repositories in Ireland. The decreasing size of the country's Roman Catholic religious congregations and the reorganisation of dioceses means that these archives also represent some of the island's most endangered collections. Aiming to address...

Fragments from an early-ninth century Carolingian Old Testament are used as sewing guards in two incunabula currently held in the Special Collections Department of the James Joyce Library, University College Dublin. The host volumes are part of the four-volume 1481–1482 Nuremberg printing of Alexander of Hales’ Summa. The provenance of the UCD incu...

This paper focuses on the presence of the different elements of Eusebius’s system of gospel concordance in a series of pocket gospel books associated with early medieval Ireland. It provides a brief overview of the pocket gospel book series as a whole and discusses the appearance of parts of the Eusebian system in the Book of Armagh and in the MacD...

This article explores the information culture that existed in the convents and industrial schools of one Irish religious congregation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The research identifies the religious and official frameworks which guided the creation of records in the convents and in the residential schools run by the Congregation of...

The Eusebian canon tables are among the most long-lived and widely disseminated gospel book prefatory texts in late antique and early medieval times. This article focuses on the reception of the tables by Hiberno-Latin exegetes, highlighting in particular their treatment in the commentary on Matthew contained in Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibl...

This interdisciplinary collection, which brings together new research on a range of patristic and medieval texts and visual materials, sets the cultural transformation of early medieval Ireland and Britain in the context of these islands' inheritance from late antiquity and their engagement with the wider medieval world. It testifies to the imagina...

This discussion of the canon tables in Boulogne 10 bears out the findings of the previous, relatively scant, research on the manuscript. The manuscript's debt to the Insular tradition has been clearly demonstrated in a closer examination of the numerical series' text and decoration. While only a preliminary study of the canon's textual citations wa...