Digitisation

Death in a Sweetshop

by Bean an Phoist on March 25, 2013 · 3 comments

in Digitisation,Guest Bloggers,Prints & Drawings

by Pól Ó Duibhir, retired and family history researcher The Connection – The day was 16 June 1946. The man in the sweetshop collapsed and died on the spot. There would be no cartoon of this event. But it was not easily forgotten in the sweetshop owner’s family. The man was Gordon Brewster, artist and [...]

Tagged as: Artist, Cartoonist, Cartoons, Dollymount Strand, Evening Herald, Felix M. Larkin, George Bernard Shaw, Gordon Brewster, Honora Faul, Howth, Independent Newspapers, Irish Hospitals' Sweepstakes, Martello Tower, No. 1 Northside, Pól Ó Duibhir, Shemus, Sunday Independent, The Gem

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If ever you go to Dublin town

by Bean an Phoist on March 1, 2013 · 6 comments

in Digitisation,Guest Bloggers,Photographs,Social Media

Wiltshire Collection Online by Orla Fitzpatrick, Irish photo historian October 1998 was a very exciting time to start working at the National Photographic Archive (NPA). The O’Donnell & Tuomey designed building had just opened in Temple Bar, Dublin and the staff were busy with the task of unpacking the vast photographic collection. As a Research [...]

Tagged as: Colm Irwin, Cumberland Street Market, Elinor Wiltshire, Eviction, Georgian Dublin, If ever you go to Dublin town, Jacolette, Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Merchant's Arch, Moore Street, National Photographic Archive, NLI Flickr Commons, Orla Fitzpatrick, Rolleiflex Camera, Sarah Rouse, Temple Bar, Tenements, The Five Lamps, The Tuggers, Twin Lens Reflex, Wiltshire Collection, Women's History Project, York Street

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Joyce Manuscripts Online – Beta but Beautiful!

by Bean an Phoist on June 15, 2012 · 5 comments

in Bloomsday,Cataloguing,Digitisation,Manuscripts,Online Resources,Oscail,Projects

by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student Bloomsday On the 16th of June, 1954 the first Bloomsday was celebrated in Ireland. Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Tom Joyce and John Ryan met in Dublin to trace the Ulysses route, starting at the Martello Tower in Sandycove through Sandymount Strand and on towards the shadier parts [...]

Tagged as: Anthony Cronin, Archives, Beta, Bloomsday, Cataloguing, Catherine Fahy, Catherine Ryan, Clovis Monnier, Context View, Copyright, Digital Library, Digital Repository, Digitisation, Finnegans Wake, Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer, Image Viewers, Information Systems, James Joyce, James Joyce Manuscripts, James Joyce-Paul Léon Papers, John Ryan, Joyce Manuscripts, Joyce Papers 2002, Joyce-Léon Papers, Manuscripts, Martello Tower, Padraic Colum, Patrick Kavanagh, Paul Léon, Peter Kenny, Richard Irvine Best, Sandycove, Stephen Gwynn, Ulysses, Zoom