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 [...]
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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
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 [...]
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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
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 [...]
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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