Bean an Phoist

Guide Books to the Second City in the Empire

by Bean an Phoist on November 22, 2012 · 0 comments

by Katy Milligan, NLI habitué and PhD student at TRIARC (The Irish Art Research Centre, TCD) Lurking among the shelves of the NLI is a group of texts which has lately caught my attention. While I intially began looking at guidebooks to Dublin to supplement my current PhD research (which looks at depictions of Dublin [...]

Tagged as: Advertising, Carlisle Bridge, Dignam's Dublin Guide, Empire, Great Industrial Exhibition, Guide Books, Hand Book for Dublin and its Environs, Home Rule, Illustrated Bits, Irish Industrial Exhibition, Jackeen, James Dignam, James Fraser, Katy Milligan, Maps, Nelson's Pillar

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Pettyfoggers and Vipers

by Bean an Phoist on November 16, 2012 · 2 comments

in Collections,Guest Bloggers,Manuscripts,Prints & Drawings,Rare books,Research

by Sean Smith, Researcher at our “Palace to Procrastination” Lawyers and the legal profession, where would we be without them? If it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t have Dickens’ Bleak House and the interminable case of Jarndyce v Jarndyce. We wouldn’t have the on-going, lengthy and costly tribunals and we wouldn’t have the colourful carnival [...]

Tagged as: Attorneys, Bar Club, Barristers, Benchers, Four Courts, Grand Day, Henrietta Street, Inns of Court, Inns Quay, Irish Bar, James Gandon, John Philpot Curran, King's Inns, Lawyers, Open University, Richard Edgeworth, Sean Smith, Society of the King's Inns, Townsend Street

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My name is Jean, and I am a Family History Workshopaholic

by Bean an Phoist on November 9, 2012 · 1 comment

in Events,Family History,Guest Bloggers,Services

20 x 20 minute Family History Workshops in association with Eneclann at the National Library of Ireland, August 2012 by Jean Norton, Family Historian One of the surprise highlights of my summer came back in August. I looked through the National Library of Ireland newsletter and discovered they were hosting a series of 20 lunchtime [...]

Tagged as: Church of Ireland, Eneclann, Family History, Family History Workshops, FindMyPast.ie, Genealogy, Genealogy Advisory Service, Gianpiero Cavallieri, Irish Newspapers Archive, Jean Norton, National Archives, Parish Records, Parish Watch Books, Representative Church Body Library, Turtle Bunbury