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An extension was added to the rear of the library to house the collection. Since then, the Monsignor has continued to add to the collection and it now has over 6,000 items.
The collection is of major significance with some truly fascinating and remarkable titles. It includes facsimiles editions of rare Irish manuscripts and annals, sets of learned journals, Irish dictionaries from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and Greek readers that once belonged to Éamon De Valera.
A wide and varied selection of subjects are covered including Irish literature, the Irish language, local history, archaeology, religion, hagiography, folklore, art, poetry and history. The books are in English, Irish, Latin, Welsh, Breton, Russian, German, French, Greek, Spanish, there are even some titles in Korean and Japanese.
Library staff have recently concluded a comprehensive reorganisation and reclassification of the collection, to make it more accessible to library users and to make it easier to search for items on the online library catalogue.
The collection is a reflection of the depth of knowledge and many interests of Monsignor Ó Fiannachta. It is an extremely generous gift to all the people of Corca Dhuibhne and Dingle. Leabharlann An Daingin is privileged to provide access to this veritable Aladdin’s Cave for scholars, historians, folklorists, linguists or simply anybody with a passion for knowledge and discovery.
Some titles of note are:
•Practical Grammar of the Irish Language by Rev. Paul O’Brien, published in 1809.
•Cotgrave on Irish; a reprint of a chapter about the Irish
language taking from Randle Cotgrave’s Dictionary of the French and English Tongues, published in 1611.
•Annals of Innisfallen – A facsimile of the original documents which are a chronicle of the mediaeval history of Ireland, written in the 12th-15th centuries.
•Béaloideas – The Journal of the Folklore Society of Ireland. The first issue was published in 1927 and continues to this year.
•The Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.
•The complete six volumes of Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, in Latin.
•Irish Minstrelsy or Bardic Remains of Ireland by James
Hardiman.
•Irish Art by Francoise Henry.
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