Newly Published Online Content:

Book Sale Page

Article for Celtic Junction Arts Review on the Doherty Family Recordings

Records added to our Online Catalog during this period:

Total number of records in Online Library Catalog to date: 5590
Total number of records in Online Archives Catalog to date: 149
Total number of records in Online Photo Catalog to date: 207

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New Archival Collections Available in Reading Room:

Reading room is open by appointment. Email library@celticjunction.org

Eoin McKiernan Television Series Collection: Newly digitized video collection of 50 television programs produced by Eoin McKiernan for KTCA-TV (St. Paul) between 1962 and 1965 including all 13 episodes of his Ireland Rediscovered series and 37 out of 40 episodes of his Irish Diary series.

Margaret Doherty Writings: Digital copy of a 413-page binder of photocopied hand-written memoirs, family genealogy, letters, poems, prayers and published articles by Margaret Doherty (1894-1981) of Scott County and St. Paul, Minnesota. Much of the writing details farm life in Cedar Lake Township, Scott County including accounts of music and dance involving Margaret, her fiddle-playing husband Tony Doherty and several other family members. Digitized from a copy supplied by her grandson Chris Cheney.

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New Acquisitions: Archival Items

Na Fianna Irish Theatre Collection: One bin of archival materials from the St. Paul Irish theater company, Na Fianna. Contributed primarily by Dan Gleeson with some additional materials from Kathie Luby, this collection includes scripts, videotapes, photos, promotional flyers, letters and other ephemera relating to this theater group that was active in the Twin Cities during the 1980s and 90s.

Ann Heymann Letters: Digital copy of a 413-page binder of photocopied hand-written memoirs, family genealogy, letters, poems, prayers and published articles by Margaret Doherty (1894-1981) of Scott County and St. Paul, Minnesota. Much of the writing details farm life in Cedar Lake Township, Scott County including accounts of music and dance involving Margaret, her fiddle-playing husband Tony Doherty and several other family members. Digitized from a copy supplied by her grandson Chris Cheney.

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New Acquisitions: Library Items

Books Purchased by Celtic Junction Arts Center:

• Fintan Vallely, Hammy Hamilton, Eithne Vallely & Liz Doherty, ed. Crosbhealach an Cheoil – the Crossroads Conference, 1996: Tradition and Change. Whinstone Music, 1999.
• Deirdre Ní Chonghaile. Collecting Music in the Aran Islands: A Century of History and Practice. University of Wisconsin Press, 2021.
• Manchán Magan. Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape. Gill Books, 2020.
• Ethna McKiernan. Swimming with Shadows. Salmon Poetry, 2019.
• Ethna McKiernan. Sky Thick with Fireflies. Salmon Poetry, 2012.

John Davenport Bequest: 30 books from the collection of former Eoin McKiernan Library volunteer and Irish College instructor John Davenport who passed away in early 2021. The bequest includes many Irish history titles as well as books on Red River Valley and North Dakota history that reference Irish immigrant and Irish-American populations.

McComiskey/Hill Donation: 50 Irish music commercial recordings on compact disc originally from the collection of Baltimore, Maryland accordion player Billy McComiskey given to David Hill and donated by Hill.

Nick Coleman Bequest: Six books of fiddle tunes

Siobhán Dugan Donation: Ireland Before the Vikings by , History of the Rain by Williams, The Irish Bride by Woodbury and two copies of Through Her Eyes by Clodagh Finn

O’Shea Family Donation: 12 books on various Irish-related topics

Sue Bicknell Donation: Ireland by Caulfield, Discovering Britain and Ireland published by National Geographic, A Book of Scottish Verse by Mackie, Drinking from the Sacred Well by Matthews and The End of Hidden Ireland by Scally

Laura MacKenzie Donation: The Irish Piper (childrens book) by Latimer.

Amy Shaw Donation: her book on the life and fiddle music of Minnesotan fiddler Ole Hendricks