Guest Bloggers

After You and the recreation of an iconic Dublin building

by Bean an Phoist on February 21, 2013 · 8 comments

by Damien O’Connor, Writer/Director of After You In early 2010 I was awarded a grant by the Irish Film Board, RTÉ, The Arts Council and the BAI to make my short animated film After You. The idea for the film was to tell the tale of a Dublin doorman over sixty years. The storyline allowed [...]

Tagged as: After You, Animation, Architecture, Brown Bag Studios, Cel' Division, Damien O'Connor, Dublin Doorman, Eli O'Dowd, Eoin Kavanagh, Film, IFTAs, JDIFF, Modelling, National Library of Ireland, Shorts, Thomas Newenham Deane, Wireframe replica

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Simone Téry, the Human Question Mark in Ireland

by Bean an Phoist on February 14, 2013 · 2 comments

in Collections,Guest Bloggers

by Oliver O’Hanlon, PhD student, University College Cork Simone Téry travelled to Ireland at a seminal moment in the birth of modern Ireland. My research involves analysing newspaper articles written by French journalists who visited Ireland during the twentieth century, to see how Ireland was being reported in the French press at this time. This [...]

Tagged as: AE, En Irlande, Flammarion, George Russell, Human Question Mark, Irish Civil War, Irish War of Independence, Journalism, L’île des bardes, L’Oeuvre, Michael Brennan, Michael Collins, Oliver O'Hanlon, Reportage, Sean O'Casey, Simone Téry, The Irish Statesman

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Celebrating the Commons on Flickr, Part Deux

by Bean an Phoist on January 15, 2013 · 7 comments

in Guest Bloggers,Photographs,Projects,Research,Social Media

This is our second blog post celebrating the 5th anniversary of The Commons on Flickr which falls tomorrow, Wednesday 16 January. This means a 5th Birthday for the Library of Congress photostream. We’re not quite into the Terrible Twos on Flickr Commons ourselves yet here at the National Library of Ireland, but we’re certainly looking [...]

Tagged as: A.H. Poole, Anner Castle, Cork, Daniel O'Connell, derangedlemur, Down, Eason Collection, Evictions, flickr, Flickr Commons, Flickroonies, Flying Hunstman, James Morley, John Spooner, Kilbroney, La Belle Province, Lawrence Collection, Library of Congress, Limerick, Linen, Linen Bleach Green, Mangolds, Michael Seery, Mitchelstown, MKSeery, mogey, National Library of Ireland, Neeps, NLI, O'Connell Monument, O'Connell Street, Poole Collection, Rostrevor, Rutabagas, Sackville Street, Sean Mulligan, Streetview, Swedes, swordscookie, Thom's Directories, Turnips, whatsthatpicture, Winifred Mandeville