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		<title>The J.J. Carroll Collection</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bean an Phoist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Deirdre Carroll, donor and daughter of J.J. (Joe) Carroll My father, Joe Carroll, who worked in the Department of Industry and Commerce on Kildare Street, Dublin (just across the road from the National Library of Ireland) acquired over 270 glass lantern slides from a colleague. Unfortunately we cannot recall the colleague&#8217;s name. They originally [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2012/10/26/the-j-j-carroll-collection/' addthis:title='The J.J. Carroll Collection ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Conserving our Newspapers</title>
		<link>http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2012/07/13/conserving-our-newspapers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bean an Phoist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Élodie Lévèque and Louise O&#8217;Connor, Conservation; and Justin Furlong, Newspaper Librarian The National Library of Ireland recently acquired two volumes of The Waterford Mirror containing rare issues from 1805 and 1806. In 1801, The Waterford Mirror and Munster Packet newspaper was first printed by John Bull, and from 1805 continued as The Waterford Mirror [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2012/07/13/conserving-our-newspapers/' addthis:title='Conserving our Newspapers ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>New Adventures in Periodicals</title>
		<link>http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2012/01/18/new-adventures-in-periodicals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bean an Phoist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Justin Furlong, Periodicals/Newspapers Librarian Library users often only get to interact with staff in our various Reading Rooms and may be unaware of the many behind the scenes projects that are taking place. With this thought in mind I felt it would be useful to detail some of the developments currently happening in the [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2012/01/18/new-adventures-in-periodicals/' addthis:title='New Adventures in Periodicals ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>How It Is &#8211; The Beckett Clodd Collection</title>
		<link>http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/12/19/how-it-is-the-beckett-clodd-collection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bean an Phoist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Máire Ní Chonalláin, Assistant Keeper II The Samuel Beckett Collection which belonged to the author’s London bookseller friend, Alan Clodd, has been catalogued. We were fortunate enough to acquire this collection in 2006. The private collection of the Nobel prize-winner’s work is highly regarded as it contains virtually all of Beckett’s works in first [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/12/19/how-it-is-the-beckett-clodd-collection/' addthis:title='How It Is &#8211; The Beckett Clodd Collection ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The British and Colonial Druggist</title>
		<link>http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/12/01/the-british-and-colonial-druggist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bean an Phoist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Inez J Fletcher, Cataloguer &#038; Director of Irish ISSN Centre Cataloguers come across a very wide variety of publications in the course of their regular work, but I mostly catalogue contemporary periodicals. However, recently I was asked to catalogue a run of eight volumes for the period January 1889 to December 1892 of The [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/12/01/the-british-and-colonial-druggist/' addthis:title='The British and Colonial Druggist ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Fairytale of New York?</title>
		<link>http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/11/18/fairytale-of-new-york/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bean an Phoist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 immigrants who lived at 97 Orchard Street, a tenement built in 1863 on Manhattan&#8217;s Lower East Side. 97 Orchard [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/11/18/fairytale-of-new-york/' addthis:title='Fairytale of New York? ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>A Watercolour Wash</title>
		<link>http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/08/05/a-watercolour-wash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bean an Phoist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Elodie Leveque &#8211; Conservation Intern, Heritage Council Have you ever wondered how we conserve ancient objects in the National Library of Ireland&#8217;s collections? How we tackle things like dirt and mould? Every year, acquisitions or donations help develop and enhance our wonderful collections and conservators here help make these items available to readers by [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/08/05/a-watercolour-wash/' addthis:title='A Watercolour Wash ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Brooklyn in Brazil</title>
		<link>http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/07/25/brooklyn-in-brazil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bean an Phoist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Justin Furlong, Acquisitions Librarian Have you ever read The Picture of Dorian Gray in Arabic? John Banville in Japanese? Perhaps you would prefer Colum McCann’s IMPAC award winning novel Let the Great World Spin in Danish? Or how about Eoin Colfer’s children’s book, Benny &#38; Omar, in Hebrew? Anne Enright in Latvian, John Connolly [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/07/25/brooklyn-in-brazil/' addthis:title='Brooklyn in Brazil ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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