Conservation

The Clean Sweep – It’s the Final Countdown!

by Bean an Phoist on October 6, 2011 · 1 comment

in Collections,Conservation,Projects,Rare books

by Nikki Ralston, Conservation Back in July 2011, I posted a short blog introducing The Clean Sweep, a preservation project aiming to clean and box our rare book collections. We have now started the final phase of the project, which will run to the end of 2011, and I thought that readers might be interested [...]

Tagged as: Books, British Museum, Charles Mackay, Clean Sweep, Cleaning, Conservation, Dr. Jaspar Robert Joly, Geoffrey Gambado, Joly Collection, Nikki Ralston, Projects, R.D.S., Rare book team, Rare books, René Descartes, Royal Dublin Society, Tours, Trustees' Room, Watts Phillips

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Talking Heads

by Bean an Phoist on September 8, 2011 · 0 comments

in Collections,Conservation,Prints & Drawings,Projects

by Giada Gelli, Collections Student So where were we…? A few weeks ago we were talking about the book In Fairyland with illustrations by Richard Doyle (1824-1883). I clearly remember promising you to further investigate him and his family, do you? Let’s begin by saying that I am not the first person with an interest [...]

Tagged as: Caricatures, Cartoons, Conservation, Daniel O'Connell, Giada Gelli, HB, Henry Grattan, John Doyle, Marquess of Londonderry, Political Sketches, Prince Albert, Prints & Drawings, Queen Victoria, Richard Doyle

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Strewth

by Bean an Phoist on September 2, 2011 · 0 comments

in Collections,Conservation,Manuscripts,Newspapers,Projects

Niamh McGarry, Conservation Asst., Dublin Castle Clippings Conservation Project One of the most surprising items that I have come across during my time working on the conservation of the Dublin Castle Clippings files is a translation of a Danish newspaper article on a typewritten page, with comments from the translator. Surprising, because most of the [...]

Tagged as: "Art Ó Briain", Art O'Brien, British Intelligence, Conservation, Denmark, Dublin Castle Clippings, Irish Civil War, Irish War of Independence, Newspapers, Niamh McGarry, Odense, Seán O'Duinn