Manuscripts

We love…

by Bean an Phoist on February 14, 2012 · 2 comments

in Cataloguing,Collections,Digital Collections,Manuscripts,Prints & Drawings

Bean an Phoist says: A few weeks ago, I asked NLI staff to pick things they love in our collections (maybe also about love) and to write about them for Valentine’s Day. Those who weren’t nimble enough to avoid me since then, are included here. And there will be two other posts today – Honora [...]

Tagged as: Della Murphy, Dragon, Emma Lyons, Giada Gelli, Katherine McSharry, Leonie Jerome, Leslie Papers, Love Letter, O'Casey's Codex, Rosamond Praeger, Sean O'Casey, Sir John Leslie, TheJournal.ie, Web Archiving

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Hidden History

by Bean an Phoist on September 22, 2011 · 9 comments

in Cataloguing,Collections,Manuscripts

by Eimear Walsh, NLI Manuscript Student Still working away on the Headfort Estate Papers, we came across a family within a family. Incongruously in a collection about a family named Taylour, there kept cropping up material from the mid 19th century relating to members of a Tuite Dalton family. To puzzle us further, were the [...]

Tagged as: Adelaide Tuite Dalton, Anglo-Celt, Baron Lisgar, Bengal Lancers, Daltonganj, Edward Tuite Dalton, Eimear Walsh, Gustavus Tuite Dalton, Headfort Estate, John Young, Lady Lisgar, Manuscripts, Marquess of Headfort, Olivia Stevenson, Sir Francis Charles Fortescue Turville, Taylour, Tuite Dalton

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Suet, Snails and Stinking Roger

by Bean an Phoist on September 15, 2011 · 1 comment

in Collections,Manuscripts

by Janelle Winters, Manuscript Intern While sifting through an old card catalogue as part of a grand scheme to augment our online sources, I stumbled onto some 19th century maps of rabies and typhoid fever cases in Ireland. As a former infectious disease and burgeoning history of medicine graduate student, I was intrigued by these [...]

Tagged as: Archangel flower, Cures, Foxgloves, Inchiquin Papers, Jane Locke, Janelle Winters, King's Evil, Lady Frances Keightley, Manuscripts, Mary Ponsonby, Pilewort, Rabies, Receipts, Remedies, Scrofula, Scurvy