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Historic Gathering in the Chapter Room at Mount St. Joseph Abbey Roscrea

Seldom if ever in its 125-year history has the Chapter Room at the Cistercian Abbey of Roscrea witnessed such a diverse gathering of ecclesiastic and secular scholars as on a recent Sunday afternoon. Pictured are the major players in the Memolib - Munster Monastic And Ecclesiastic Libraries - Project which was launched at the end of the Roscrea Spring Conference.

Seated on the Abbot's throne is Dom Laurence Walsh OCSO, Abbot Of Mount St Joseph.

Standing (Left To Right):

John Power, Librarian, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Dr Muriel McCarthy, Keeper, Marsh's Library, Dublin. Dr Philip Knowles, Dean Of Cashel And Curator Of The Bolton Library, Cashel. Dom Colmcille O'Toole, OCSO, Abbot Emeritus, Roscrea.

Seated (middle):

Professor amonn Carragin, UCC, (Co-Chair of Memolib); Dom amonn Fitzgerald OSCO, Abbot Of Mt Melleray; Ms Mary Brassil, Deputy Librarian, Mary Immaculate College. Seated (front): Bro John Dineen, Librarian, Mt Melleray; George Cunningham, Chairman, Bolton Library (And Co-Chair Memolib; John Lancaster, Librarian, UL; Dr Colman Clabaigh, OSB, Librarian, Glenstal and representing the Abbot of Glenstal at the launch; and Dom Vincent Ryan, former Librarian, Glenstal.

Missing from the photo are representatives from the libraries of St Patrick's College, Thurles and the Waterford Institute Of Technology.

Pictured before the organ recital by the Dean Of Cashel, Dr Philip Knowles in the Abbey Church of Mt St Joseph at the conclusion of the Roscrea Spring Conference are George Cunningham and dean Knowles. George Cunningham is a University Of Limerick representative on the Bolton Board Of Management, and also chairs that body. He has recently been elected as Deputy Chairman of the thirty five-person
Governing Authority of UL.