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Sligo Dispute

by Bean an Phoist on March 8, 2013 · 3 comments

in Exhibitions,Guest Bloggers,Newspapers

We have a Dublin Lockout centenary exhibition coming up here at the National Library of Ireland this August, but many other protracted labour struggles took place in other parts of Ireland in 1913. In this blog post, author and historian Padraig Yeates looks at a dispute in Sligo between March and May of that year… [...]

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If ever you go to Dublin town

by Bean an Phoist on March 1, 2013 · 6 comments

in Digitisation,Guest Bloggers,Photographs,Social Media

Wiltshire Collection Online by Orla Fitzpatrick, Irish photo historian October 1998 was a very exciting time to start working at the National Photographic Archive (NPA). The O’Donnell & Tuomey designed building had just opened in Temple Bar, Dublin and the staff were busy with the task of unpacking the vast photographic collection. As a Research [...]

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After You and the recreation of an iconic Dublin building

by Bean an Phoist on February 21, 2013 · 8 comments

in Guest Bloggers

by Damien O’Connor, Writer/Director of After You In early 2010 I was awarded a grant by the Irish Film Board, RTÉ, The Arts Council and the BAI to make my short animated film After You. The idea for the film was to tell the tale of a Dublin doorman over sixty years. The storyline allowed [...]

Tagged as: After You, Animation, Architecture, Brown Bag Studios, Cel' Division, Damien O'Connor, Dublin Doorman, Eli O'Dowd, Eoin Kavanagh, Film, IFTAs, JDIFF, Modelling, National Library of Ireland, Shorts, Thomas Newenham Deane, Wireframe replica