by Nikki Ralston, Conservation Back in July 2011, I posted a short blog introducing The Clean Sweep, a preservation project aiming to clean and box our rare book collections. We have now started the...
by Giada Gelli, Collections Student Ready for the third episode of the Doyle Family saga? In our previous posts we’ve touched briefly on the lives of John Doyle (HB) - about whom I found this...
by Eimear Walsh, NLI Manuscript Student Still working away on the Headfort Estate Papers, we came across a family within a family. Incongruously in a collection about a family named Taylour, there...
by Janelle Winters, Manuscript Intern While sifting through an old card catalogue as part of a grand scheme to augment our online sources, I stumbled onto some 19th century maps of rabies and...
by Giada Gelli, Collections Student Detail from Doing Penance in a White Sheet by HB or John Doyle and some of Doyle's "heads", Sketch no. 617, NLI call no. PD 4031 TX 1 So where were we...? A few...
Niamh McGarry, Conservation Asst., Dublin Castle Clippings Conservation Project One of the most surprising items that I have come across during my time working on the conservation of the Dublin...
by Maria O'Shea, Manuscripts Student One of the wonderful things about working in our Department of Manuscripts is that, as well as working with political and official documents, you come across...
by Justin Furlong, Periodicals Librarian We are always keen here at the National Library to collaborate with other institutions and libraries. With this in mind, we were very pleased to be approached...
We might not know most of their names or where they are from, but I got to know the children in the upcoming Small Lives Exhibition very well. I started work on the exhibition back in April, going...
by Giada Gelli, Preservation Assistant We have all done some scribbling on copies, books, magazines and whatnot at some stage in our lives. There is nothing more pleasant than evading the realms of...
by Fiona Noonan, Preservation Assistant We are all drawn to books for different reasons - Stories, Authors, Illustrations and Bindings. So, when those of us working on The Clean Sweep Project were...
by Justin Furlong, Newspaper Librarian The National Library of Ireland has one of the strongest holdings of Irish newspapers in the world. See our Newspaper Database for more details on what we...
by Maria O'Shea, Manuscripts Student We have a number of letters here at the National Library written by the nationalist sympathiser Caroline Margaret Douglas, Marchioness of Queensberry, including...
by Elodie Leveque - Conservation Intern, Heritage Council Have you ever wondered how we conserve ancient objects in the National Library of Ireland's collections? How we tackle things like dirt and...
by Giada Gelli, Preservation Assistant As the cleaning of the Thom Collection drew to an end yesterday, we thought it fair to take a moment to talk about its beauty and richness. This stunning...
by Justin Furlong, Acquisitions Librarian Have you ever read The Picture of Dorian Gray in Arabic? John Banville in Japanese? Perhaps you would prefer Colum McCann’s IMPAC award winning novel Let...
