An account of a discussion between leading 19th-century mathematicians, George Boole and Charles Babbage about the possibility of building a precursor to the computer is among the items in a new ...

George Boole’s previously unseen documents were discovered by staff at University College Cork following the opening of an extension to its Boole Library. The scrapbook-type collection, which includes ...

Family of the late David Burden from Buttevant to present literary gem to the University’s Boole library The title page of the 1821 Seannuid na mBan (The Woman’s Parliament) manuscript which will be ...

A sit-in protest involving students in University College Cork has succeeded in extending library opening hours during exam period. After three successive nights of sit-ins at the Boole Library, the ...

A new website allows the public to search a wide range of Irish archives online. These include the Irish Film archive, the Guinness family archive, University College Cork's Boole Library and a number ...