The Burns Library holds BC’s Irish and Irish American collections.

I’m back in Washington, D.C., after 10 months in Boston for my wife’s Nieman Foundation fellowship at Harvard. It was a great experience for both of us. I visited several libraries and archives in the region to research my book on American journalists in revolutionary Ireland. In appreciation, I’ve listed the institutions and two individuals below, followed by more photos:

• Boston College: Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr., and John J. Burns libraries.
  • Thanks to Guy Beiner, Sullivan Chair of BC’s Irish Studies program, Connolly House.
• Boston Public Library: “Irish Papers” collection and newspaper microfilm.
• Cambridge Public Library and associated Minuteman Library Network.
• Colby College (Waterville, Maine): James A. Healy Collection at Miller Library.
  • Thanks to Patricia Burdick, head of special collections and archives.
• Harvard: Widener, Lamont, Houghton, and Divinity School libraries, and
  • Radcliffe Institute: Schlesinger Library.
• Tufts University: Tisch Library.
• University of Massachusetts at Boston: Joseph P. Healy Library.
• Yale University (New Haven, Conn.): Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Plaque at the entrance of Harvard’s Widener Library describes the fate of its namesake.

Bates Hall, the main reading room at Boston Public Library.

Hallway leading to special collections and archives at Yale University.

Miller Library at Colby College in Maine.