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From our Portrait Collections, William Vincent Wallace by Francois Davignon. Lithograph by Endicott. NLI ref. EP WAL-WI (1) III

William Vincent Wallace Bicentenary

by Dr Una Hunt, pianist, broadcaster and Irish music specialist William Vincent Wallace Born Waterford, Ireland 1812; died Chateau de Bagen, France 1865 The bicentenary of a neglected and...
Irish Press, 1 January 1973

Newspaper Descriptors Project

Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian The National Library of Ireland in association with the Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland is pleased to launch its Newspaper...
"... snow was general all over Ireland." It certainly was in the photograph taken on 10 December 1870 in the grounds of Clonbrock House, Ahascragh, Galway.

Some reflections on The Dead

by Felix M. Larkin, Vice-chair of the NLI Society and member of the NLI’s Readers Advisory Committee. His essay on 'Ulysses and the Freeman’s Journal' is included in the forthcoming volume of the...
Felix M. Larkin delivering the address at the Ivy Day commemoration of the death of Charles Stewart Parnell in Glasnevin Cemetery, 4 October 2009

Bishop Plunket, Yeats and JFK

by FELIX M. LARKIN, Vice-chair of the NLI Society and member of the NLI’s Readers Advisory Committee When I was at school in St Paul's College, Raheny, the imp in me was always amused by the fact...
Barry Pierce, Poetry Aloud Semi-Finalist 2010 and our youngest guest blogger to date...

Poetry Aloud

by BARRY PIERCE Transition Year Student (St. Colman's College, Fermoy, Co. Cork) Video Blogger Poetry Aloud 2010 Semi-Finalist It all started with my English teacher in class saying that there was a...
Gorgeously Gory Ghastly Murder Image supplied by photographer Michael Stamp

The Spectre of Blood

by Abigail Rieley - Writer, Journalist, Court Reporter & NLI Reader The ghosts of the forgotten haunt the National Library of Ireland; those whose stories lie in out of print pages or hidden in...
Irish Times and Microfilm Machinery Mashup by photographer Michael Stamp

Dancing Angels and Devilish Microfilm

by Abigail Rieley, Writer & NLI Reader For me, former Taoiseach Charlie Haughey will always be inextricably linked to the rattling of microfilm readers. I was sitting at one in the Reading Room...