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Poetry Aloud 2012

by Bean an Phoist on December 20, 2012 · 0 comments

by Bríd O’Sullivan and Holly Furlong, Learning and Outreach To introduce POETRY ALOUD to the uninitiated, consider approximately 3,200 poems spoken by almost 1,600 students from schools all over Ireland representing 28 counties in 14 regional heats. Now in its 7th year, POETRY ALOUD is a spoken poetry competition for post-primary school pupils, organised by [...]

Tagged as: Cian Siggins, Danny O Treasaigh, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Emily Guiney, Emmanuella Pomah, Gerard Smith, Joe Woods, Linen Hall Library, Mark O'Halloran, Mullingar Arts Centre, Orla Nolan, Poetry Aloud, Poetry Competition, Poetry Ireland, Seamus Heaney, Shauna Hession, W.B. Yeats, Wilfred Owen

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Time Capsule – The Innisfail sails again

by Bean an Phoist on December 6, 2012 · 1 comment

in Collections,Conservation

by Justin Furlong (Newspaper Librarian); Alexandra Nederlof (Student Conservation Intern from the University of Amsterdam) and Louise O’Connor (Conservator) In February 2012 we were contacted by Tim Lynch, Professor of Neurology at the Dublin Neurological Institute. Ten years ago, during renovations of the Institute’s building at No. 57 Eccles Street in Dublin, an issue of [...]

Tagged as: 1895, 19th century, 57 Eccles Street, 58 Eccles Street, Alexandra Nederlof, Cellulose, Conservation, Dry Surface Cleaning, Dublin Neurological Institute, Eccles Street, Eraser Powder, Heat-set Tissue, Hydroscopic, Innisfail, Japanese Paper, Justin Furlong, Louise O'Connor, Methyl-cellulose, Mould, Paper, Paper Press, Smoke Sponge, Soft Brush, Soft Eraser, Starch, Tim Lynch

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There once was a Welsh priest called Gerald

by Bean an Phoist on November 29, 2012 · 1 comment

in Collections,Exhibitions

by Nikki Ralston, Exhibitions One of the pleasures of our collections is that they provide the opportunity to appreciate not only the differences between the past and our own times, but to recognise something of ourselves in those who inhabited that past. Just when you least expect it you’ll come across a phrase or fact [...]

Tagged as: 12th century, A.B. Scott, Book of Kells app, Conquest of Ireland, Exhibitions, Expugnatio Hibernica, F.X. Martin, Gerald of Wales, Gerallt Gymro, Giraldus, Giraldus Cambrensis, Henry I, Illuminated Manuscripts, Kingship, Manuscripts, Maurice Fitzgerald, Nest, Nikki Ralston, Normans, R.R. Davies, Topographia Hiberniae, Topography of Ireland, William de Barri, Your NLI