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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: The Pollard Collection of Children’s Books: Panel Two
Description: Recorded  November 14th, 2025.
Dr Jane Carroll
Convivial Patchworks: Collections within the Pollard Collection of Children's Books
Tony Flynn
Stories in Blank Spaces: Revealing biographies of childhood through inscriptions and marginalia found in the Pollard Collection of Children’s Books and Pollard Schoolbook Collection
Dr Sinéad Moriarty
"Weep on then, lost island": imagining Irish landscapes in the Irish history texts of the Pollard School-book collection 1860-1920.
Recorded as part of The Pollard Collection of Children’s Books: A Symposium
This collaboration between the School of English and Trinity College Library brought together a range of experts to discuss the history, signif...