The Location of Knowledge and The New Library Space

NUI Maynooth Teaching and Learning Showcase 2012/1

AHGBI Conference 2014: A Report by Regina Whelan Richardson, Subject Librarian for Music & Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Maynooth University Library

The annual conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI) took place at the National University of Ireland, Galway from Monday 14th April to Wednesday 16th April, 2014

Loneliness, Creation and Communication in Carlos Rojas

Carlos Rojas is the creator of highly imaginative, intricately wrought and richly written novels. Their thematic structure could include a range of subjects from dream and reality to history and religion, and be woven with a personalised style whichx is unmistakeable. But the themes underlying most of his work are those elemental problems of man: loneliness and alienation, selfexamination, communication and creation. It is through an examination of these themes as explored by Rojas in his fiction and other writings, that the source of his artistic inspiration and style may be discovered. I intend in the following three chapters to reveal how a sense of loneliness and alienation contributes greatly to his creative urge, and how this feeling of aloneness, together with the allied themes of self-examination and communication, has a basic influence on the wayin which he writes. The two novels I will refer to mainly are La ternura del hombre invisible and Adolfo Hitler esta en mi casa. In the first chapter I will discuss the question of character identification and communication. Within these novels, the characters come to realise that communication with others must be preceeded by ..confrontation with the self. Rojas is as convinced of this truth as his characters. For in this way communication can be seen as a creative force; for man in his relations with himself and other men, for the writer with his public. The concept of creative force will be dealt with in more detail in Chapter Two. Here, through structural and stylistic analysis of the symbolic pattern of fertility, I hope to show that fertility symbols and images are carefully and consistently used to consolodate the hope in creation as the solution to a lonely and barren existence. They are, in effect, an essential part of the structure of the novels. In Chapter Three I propose to examine his non-fiction in the light of his fictional writings, and to relate the meaning of life with the means of living. For Rojas, communication is an important meaning of life in a world where man lives with himself and with other people. In his non-fiction, he relates the problems of communication which he explores in his novels, to the means of living, which is the manner in which man lives out his life. He emphasises the necessity of an understanding communication as a prerequisite to the harmonious co-existence of mankind. He discusses this not only in the universal brotherhood of man context, but with particular reference to isolationist states of mind in communities of his native country

AHGBI Conference 2014: A Report by Regina Whelan Richardson, Subject Librarian for Music & Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Maynooth University Library

The annual conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI) took place at the National University of Ireland, Galway from Monday 14th April to Wednesday 16th April, 2014

The Irish in Asturias: the footprint of the Irish College, Salamanca, 1913–1950

Traces the history of the clerical students and rectors of the Irish College, Salamanca (Colegio Real de Nobles Irlandeses) on their summer vacations on the northern coast of Spain. The article draws chiefly on rectors’ reports to the Irish hierarchy in the Salamanca Archive, held in St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland and on the papers of Alexander McCabe, rector of the College from 1935-49, held in the National Library of Ireland.. A summer house (Casona de Verines) was purchased in the early 1920s and thereafter the holidays were spent in Pendueles, Asturias. This article augments the small body of work that has been published to date on the 20th century history of the Irish College, Salamanca, it documents the Irish presence in Asturias, adding further details to our knowledge of the evacuation of the students on the outbreak of the Spanish civil war. It recounts some of the impressions and experiences of Alexander McCabe as an eye witness to the civil war in Spain as documented in his reports and personal diaries. Two photographs showing the summer house (c.1930s) and a group photo of the students in 1916 are here published for the first time

The Salamanca Archives

An overview of the Salamanca Archive held at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland, within the context of the history of the Irish Colleges in Spain. From the late 16th century, Irish colleges grew up on the continent in countries where trade links with Ireland were already well established and where there was support for Catholic reform. Young men, seeking an education for the professions or training for the priesthood, gravitated to university centres in France, Spain, Portugal, and the Low Countries where small colleges were established to provide their formation .The archives of the Irish College in Salamanca came to Maynooth on the closure of the college in 1951. They comprise some 50,000 administrative documents dating from the foundation of the college in 1592 to the mid- 20th century. The collection also includes some papers from other Irish colleges on the Iberian Peninsula: Lisbon (flourished 1590-1834), Valladolid (founded 1592), Santiago de Compostela (fl. 1605-1769), Seville (fl. 1612-1767), Madrid (founded 1629), Alcalá de Henares (fl. 1649-1785)

The Irish in Asturias: the footprint of the Irish College, Salamanca, 1913–1950

Traces the history of the clerical students and rectors of the Irish College, Salamanca (Colegio Real de Nobles Irlandeses) on their summer vacations on the northern coast of Spain. The article draws chiefly on rectors’ reports to the Irish hierarchy in the Salamanca Archive, held in St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland and on the papers of Alexander McCabe, rector of the College from 1935-49, held in the National Library of Ireland.. A summer house (Casona de Verines) was purchased in the early 1920s and thereafter the holidays were spent in Pendueles, Asturias. This article augments the small body of work that has been published to date on the 20th century history of the Irish College, Salamanca, it documents the Irish presence in Asturias, adding further details to our knowledge of the evacuation of the students on the outbreak of the Spanish civil war. It recounts some of the impressions and experiences of Alexander McCabe as an eye witness to the civil war in Spain as documented in his reports and personal diaries. Two photographs showing the summer house (c.1930s) and a group photo of the students in 1916 are here published for the first time

Continuing professional development through our professional association

The Library Association of Ireland (LAI) offers two awards to recognise contribution to the library profession. This article recounts the experiences of the two authors in attaining Associateship and Fellowship

The Salamanca Archive & the Irish Colleges in Spain: New Online Catalogue and Current Research

Migration has always been a big factor in Irish history and from 1600 to 1800 continental Europe was the main destination for tens of thousands of Irish migrants. Significant groupings of Irish migrants and exiles were seeking religious refuge, due to a series of penal laws directed towards Catholics and in operation in Ireland from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. These laws precluded the establishment of Catholic seminaries in Ireland as they forbade any type of Catholic teaching or education as well as encouraging the banishment of Catholic clergy in general. Various European cities and towns could provide places of support for the education and well-being of Catholic seminarists. Quickly, a network of Irish colleges began to emerge on the continent predominantly in Belgium, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal which educated both clergy and laity. The Irish colleges had the specific task of educating and training students for the priesthood and for the Irish Mission

The Salamanca Archive & the Irish Colleges in Spain: New Online Catalogue and Current Research

Migration has always been a big factor in Irish history and from 1600 to 1800 continental Europe was the main destination for tens of thousands of Irish migrants. Significant groupings of Irish migrants and exiles were seeking religious refuge, due to a series of penal laws directed towards Catholics and in operation in Ireland from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. These laws precluded the establishment of Catholic seminaries in Ireland as they forbade any type of Catholic teaching or education as well as encouraging the banishment of Catholic clergy in general. Various European cities and towns could provide places of support for the education and well-being of Catholic seminarists. Quickly, a network of Irish colleges began to emerge on the continent predominantly in Belgium, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal which educated both clergy and laity. The Irish colleges had the specific task of educating and training students for the priesthood and for the Irish Mission