Collections

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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Welcome to Your NLI

by Bean an Phoist on November 1, 2012 · 2 comments

in Collections,Exhibitions,Projects

by Nikki Ralston, Exhibitions Our new Front Hall display proudly says “Welcome to Your NLI”, not the NLI or our NLI but Yours. After all, as a public collection the National Library of Ireland does belong to all, it’s Ours. Perhaps you already had a sense of this public ownership, but had you thought about [...]

Tagged as: Exhibitions, Gerald of Wales, Giraldus Cambrensis, Nikki Ralston, Projects, Topographia Hiberniae, Your NLI

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The J.J. Carroll Collection

by Bean an Phoist on October 26, 2012 · 9 comments

in Acquisitions,Collections,Photographs

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’s name. They originally [...]

Tagged as: 1st Earl Roberts, Clontarf, Deirdre Carroll, Donations, Elizabeth Kirwan, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, General Roberts, J.J. Carroll Collection, Joe Carroll, Lantern Slides, Laterna Magica, Magic Lantern