General myth and lore (as it exists in the modern world).
(Di Inferi Archives, translated fragment from the “Songs of the Silent Maker,” c. unknown) In the first days, before humankind spoke,the gods sealed the world against its own reflection.They called this mercy.They called it peace.And in their stillness, they desired a keeper. Thus was Pandora shaped — not born, but Read more
Some of the earliest texts in the Manuscripts and Archives Research Library are incised in cuneiform script on clay tablets from Sumeria (modern day Iraq); the tablets are upwards of two thousand years old. There are over 70 Arabic manuscripts including some with Persian, Samaritan, Turkish, Hebrew and Hausa linguistic Read more
The most significant collection of maps of Irish interest in the Manuscripts and Archives Research Library is that of George Carew, Lord President of Munster at the beginning of the 17th century (MS 1209). This collection contains nearly 70 maps and is one of the largest sets of original Tudor Read more
Tuatha Dé Danann as described in the Book of Leinster, a medieval Irish manuscript formerly known as the Lebor na Nuachongbála “Book of Nuachongbáil” was written by a “man of learning,” an abbot, from the court of an ancient irish king and an Atharim scholar. Almost a third of the Read more