Guest Bloggers

Postcards and public history

by Bean an Phoist on July 5, 2012 · 3 comments

in Collections,Ephemera,Guest Bloggers,Photographs,Research

by Chantal Sweeney, M.Phil. in Public History & Cultural Heritage at Trinity College Dublin Like many people, I spent the majority of last Christmas holidays lounging around in my pyjamas, watching old movies and eating too much food. I was giving my brain a much-needed break for the first time since embarking on my Masters [...]

Tagged as: Achill Sound, Bray, Campanile, Chantal Sweeney, Copper plate, Elizabeth Kirwan, Ephemera, Grafton Street, Gweedore, Internship, Lawrence Collection, Lawrence Photographic Studio, Lawrence Postcard Series, Lawrence Postcards, M.Phil in Public History and Cultural Heritage, National Photographic Archive, NPA, Postcards, Robert French, Shop Street, TCD, Trinity College Dublin, William Lawrence

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Who reads ULYSSES?

by Bean an Phoist on June 12, 2012 · 0 comments

in Bloomsday,Guest Bloggers

by Rob Berry, Cartoonist on ULYSSES “SEEN” “If you can put your finger through it, it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see.” – James Joyce The quality of art; it really is just a matter of perception, after all. But perception should, I believe, be based on a personal [...]

Tagged as: Bloomsday, Cartoonist, contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality, Cosplay, Declan Kiberd, Dublin, Eccles Street, International James Joyce Symposium, James Joyce, Josh Levitan, Leopold Bloom, Martello Tower, Ormond Quay, Piet Mondrian, Rob Berry, Robert Berry, Sandycove, Ulysses

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‘This lonely propagandist in a new field…’

by Bean an Phoist on April 20, 2012 · 2 comments

in Collections,Guest Bloggers,Newspapers,Projects

Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian This is the second in a series of blogs connected to a joint project (Newspaper Descriptors Project) by the National Library of Ireland and the Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland (NPHFI). The project hopes to provide short descriptors or pen notes for the newspaper titles listed [...]

Tagged as: Anglo-Irish Treaty, Art O'Brien, Arthur Griffith, Benjamin Farrington, Bernard Doyle, Central News Agency, Colonel Maurice Moore, Donal P. McCracken, Eason's, Fownes Street, Irish Independent, Irish Republican Association of South Africa, John Mitchel, Justin Furlong, Mark Ryan, Matt Clancy, Maud Gonne, Middelberg Courant, Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland, Newspaper Database, Newspaper Descriptors Project, Patrick J. Little, Rand Revolt, Shan Van Vocht, Sinn Féin, South Africa, The Dawn, The Republic, United Irishman, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Weekly Freeman, William Rooney