Exhibitions

Do not try this at home

by Bean an Phoist on February 23, 2012 · 0 comments

in Collections,Exhibitions,Printed books,Rare books

by Aoife O Connor, co-curator of Particles of the Past exhibition In deciding what to put into our Discover: Particles of the Past exhibition for Dublin City of Science 2012, Robert Boyle was top of the list. We have an excellent collection of his published works and he’s a well known and important figure in [...]

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Small Lives

by Aoife O Connor on August 23, 2011 · 7 comments

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We might not know most of their names or where they are from, but I got to know the children in the upcoming Small Lives Exhibition very well. I started work on the exhibition back in April, going through our collection of digitised photographs. I put them all into a folder and pored over them trying [...]

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