Eoin McKiernan Library

Recent Publications & Acquisitions Jan-Jun 2022

Newly Published Online Content:

Twin Cities Irish American Club online video of Library Director Brian Miller’s Irish Arts Week talk, discussion and performance on this Twin Cities institution

Peter Ostroushko Oral History Interview audio and transcript

Records added to our Online Catalog during this period:

  • Books: 254
  • DVDs: 60
  • Archival Items: 45

New Acquisitions: Archival Items

Con Sullivan Photos: Scanned photos and newspaper clippings from the private collection of Con Sullivan of Coon Rapids featuring members of the Sullivan-Mahony family and the Twin Cities Irish American Club.

Irish Music and Dance Association Newsletters and Ephemera: A near complete set of IMDA newsletters from 1983-1990 along with various posters, programs, newspaper clippings and other IMDA ephemera. From Amy Shaw.

Dominic Caulfield Recording: Home recording of County Mayo-born singer Dominic Caulfield of Saint Paul. Recorded by Tom Dahill in the late 1970s.

Feis Music Research Recordings: We received the first installment of audio and video recordings made by Dr. Julia Topper while researching her dissertation: “As We Circle The World”: A Performative Ethnography of Irish Step Dance and Music in the United States and Japan.

New Acquisitions: Library Items

Books Purchased by Celtic Junction Arts Center:

  • Éamon de Valera: A Will to Power by Ronan Fanning
  • Collected Poems by Patrick Kavanagh
  • A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by Joseph Campbell
  • Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript
  • Ojibwe, Activist, Priest by Tadeusz Lewandowski

Wendy Adams: 14 books

Armagh Folk: Bodhrán for beginners by Fergal O’Brien

Catherine Brooks: 14 books on various topics

Merlin Davis: Two rare books on Irish immigration to the upper Midwest by Joseph King

Kevin Fitzpatrick: Eleven boxes of poetry books.

Yvonne Foster: Whiskey and Wisdom by Yvonne Foster

Kathi Jones: 20 books on Scottish and Irish music

Anthony Killeen: 40 Irish language books

Manchán Magan: Three books on Irish language topics written by himself

Michael McGrath: Caisleáin óir by Séamus Ó Grianna

Réamonn Ó Ciaráin: two of his books on Cú Chúlainn legends

Natalie O’Shea: childrens book Always Room for One More by Sorche Nic Leodhas

Maria Pasquerella: 12 books on various topics

Nancy Stenson: 26 Irish language books

Traditional Arts Partnership: A Brave Wheen o Tunes by Ulster-Scots Community Network

Dáithí Sproule: The Celtic Heroic Age: literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland and Wales

Unknown Donor: The Lighter Side of Irish Life by George A. Birmingham