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    Burns Library Exhibit Highlights

    2009

    "Come, follow Me" - Boston College's Military Chaplains, Fall 2009

    Mary O'Hara, Singer and Harpist: A Retrospective, Fall 2009

    John McCormack, Tenor: Celebrating 125 Years, Fall 2009

    Jesuit Missionaries in the Colonial Americas - An Exhibit in Honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Fall 2009

    2008

    America in Ireland - Photographs by Maeve Hickey, Winter 2008 

    Sixty Years of the Cuala Press:  A Collaboration of the Yeats Family and Mollie Gill, Fall 2008

    Pirate Treasure - historical and fictional works  from the Nicholas M. Williams Ethnological Collection, Fall 2008

    Fighting Irishmen - Celebrating Celtic Prizefighters 1820 to Present: An eclectic collection of boxing artifacts, Spring-Summer 2008

    Reflections of Ireland - Music and Landscapes by Richard Toomey: Paintings and drawings of Boston-based Irish musicians, and Irish landscape paintings, Spring 2008

    2007

    Boston Through the Eyes of Brehaut: The Ellerton J. Brehaut Bostonia Collection, Winter 2007-2008

    “…something to measure from”: British Catholic Authors at the John J. Burns Library, Spring 2007

    2006

    "my monster is in safe keeping:" The Samuel Beckett Collection at Boston College, Winter 2006-2007

    Francis Xavier & the Jesuit Missions in the Far East: An Anniversary Exhibition of Early Printed Works, from the Jesuitana Collection, Fall 2006

    Irish Faces - The Heart and Soul of Boston: An Exhibit of Bachrach at Boston College, Spring 2006

    2005

    Alert to the Sacredness of Life: A Celebration of Paul Mariani's Works, Fall 2005

    Seeing Voices: A Brief History of Type, Fall 2005

    The Legacy of Sebastian Virdung: Rare Books on Music & Instruments from the Collection of Frederick R. Selch, Spring 2005

    2004

    "Mr. Shaw's Time is Filled Up for Months to Come," Fall 2004

    Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, 1829-1892: Father of the American Concert Band, Fall 2004

    All Available Boats: Harbor Voices and Images, 9.11.01, Summer 2004

    2003

    Astronomy, Geology, Physics and Mathematics: Some Special Collections Holdings in the Sciences, Winter 2003

    Boston College and World War Two, Summer 2003

    Troubled Images: Posters and Images of the Northern Ireland Conflict, Spring 2003

    2002

    "A Definite Claim to Beauty": Selections from the Fine Print Press Collection, Fall 2002

    Commander John J. Shea's "Letter to Jackie," Spring 2002

    Religious Works of Alexis Arapoff, Winter 2002 (Through March 27, 2002)

    2001

    From the Easter Rising to the Rise of the Irish Republic: Thomas & Kathleen Clarke and their Era, Fall 2001

    Francis Thompson at Boston College, Summer 2001

    The African-Caribbean Connection, Winter 2001

    Haitian Paintings, Winter 2001

    2000

    The Art of the Book from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance: A Journey Through a Thousand Years, Fall 2000

    The Fullness of Time: The Catholic Tradition of Social Justice, Summer 2000

    Irish Literary Collections, Summer 2000

    1999

    Ratio Studiorum: Jesuit Education, 1540-1773, Fall 1999

    Francis Sweeney, SJ: Teacher and Mentor, Journalist, Humanist, Poet, Priest, Spring 1999

    1998

    A Poet's Notebooks from the Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill Collection, Fall 1998

    Artwork, Books and Manuscripts from the Flann O'Brien Collection, Fall 1998

    Boston College: The First Century, 1863-1963, Fall 1998

    Rev. Charles F. Donovan, SJ, Summer 1998

    Irish Famine Art, Summer 1998

    Michael de Lisio: Artists & Writers, Summer 1998

    The Women's Studies Collection of Janet Wilson James, Spring 1998

    1997

    The Birth of the Romanian State, Fall 1997

    Thomas Mann Revisited, Fall 1997

    The Life and Career of Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Fall 1997

    Boston College Campuses: Some Scenes from the Past, Summer 1997

    The Jesuits: Culture, Learning and the Arts. 1540-1773, Spring 1997



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    Portrait of George Bernard Shaw at his ninetieth birthday in 1946.
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