by Frances Clarke, Archivist of the Seamus Heaney Literary Papers, 1963-2010 In November 2011 the National Library of Ireland acquired one of its most important donations for many years – the literary papers of the Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. The papers have since been catalogued (I was fortunate to work on this collection) and are [...]
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Human Chain,
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Seeing Things,
Station Island,
Ted Hughes,
The Redress of Poetry,
The Spirit Level,
Thomas Kilroy,
W.B. Yeats,
Wintering Out
by Pól Ó Duibhir, retired and family history researcher The Connection – The day was 16 June 1946. The man in the sweetshop collapsed and died on the spot. There would be no cartoon of this event. But it was not easily forgotten in the sweetshop owner’s family. The man was Gordon Brewster, artist and [...]
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Irish Hospitals' Sweepstakes,
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Pól Ó Duibhir,
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Sunday Independent,
The Gem
by Josh Hughes, NLI project intern and MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture, TCD On Thursday, 21 March 2013, the National Library of Ireland will host its third collection day on behalf of the Europeana 1914-1918 project. In an effort to preserve and make available to the public the stories, artefacts and photographs that many [...]
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