Suet, Snails and Stinking Roger
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...
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Hidden History
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...
The Doyle Brothers
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...
The Clean Sweep - It's the Final Countdown!
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...
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...
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...
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...
General Election 2011 Web Archiving
by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student & Maria O’Shea, Manuscript Student Here at the National Library we try to collect as much as we can that might not otherwise be collected and...
The Right Honourable John Philpot Curran
by Eoin Lynch, Conservation Assistant While working on The Clean Sweep book cleaning project, an interesting book I found in the Joly Collection was The speeches of the Right Honourable John Philpot...
Fairytale of New York?
by Justin Furlong, Acquisitions Librarian I recently returned from a visit to New York. One of the highlights of the trip was a tour of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum which tells the stories of...
Behind the scenes
by Jenny Doyle, Oscail Programme Manager While the National Library holds wonderful collections of rare and antiquarian books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, prints and drawings (some of which...
The British and Colonial Druggist
by Inez J Fletcher, Cataloguer & Director of Irish ISSN Centre The British and Colonial Druggist, January 1889 to December 1892, in all its beautifully bound glory... It's on our shelves at call...
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