Guest Bloggers

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 [...]

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Sligo Dispute

by Bean an Phoist on March 8, 2013 · 3 comments

in Exhibitions,Guest Bloggers,Newspapers

We have a Dublin Lockout centenary exhibition coming up here at the National Library of Ireland this August, but many other protracted labour struggles took place in other parts of Ireland in 1913. In this blog post, author and historian Padraig Yeates looks at a dispute in Sligo between March and May of that year… [...]

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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