Digital Collections

The Right Honourable John Philpot Curran

by Bean an Phoist on November 8, 2011 · 9 comments

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by Eoin Lynch, Conservation Assistant While working on The Clean Sweep book cleaning project, an interesting book I found in the Joly Collection was The speeches of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran, edited by Thomas Davis and published in London, 1847. John Philpot Curran (1750-1817) was an Irish MP and barrister who defended several [...]

Tagged as: Barrister, Book cleaning, Catholic Defenders, Clean Sweep, Eoin Lynch, Gertrude Curran, John Philpot Curran, Joly Collection, Jury, Libel, MP, Northern Star, Oratory, Rev. Michael Sandys, Robert Emmet, Sam McTier, Sarah Curran, United Irishmen, Whig, William Carey, William Drennan

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General Election 2011 Web Archiving

by Bean an Phoist on October 26, 2011 · 3 comments

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by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student & Maria O’Shea, Manuscript Student Here at the National Library we try to collect as much as we can that might not otherwise be collected and available to researchers of the future. So, when it came to the 2011 General Election, we not only collected posters, flyers etc. as [...]

Tagged as: 2011 General Election, Blogs, Candidates, Canvassing, Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student, Election, Election leaflets, Election posters, Enda Kenny, Facebook, Fine Gael, flickr, General Election, Government, Internet Memory Foundation, Manuscript Student, Maria O'Shea, RTÉ, Sinn Féin, Slideshow, Slugger O'Toole, Upstart, Web Archiving