Printed books

The Right Honourable John Philpot Curran

by Bean an Phoist on November 8, 2011 · 9 comments

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by Eoin Lynch, Conservation Assistant While working on The Clean Sweep book cleaning project, an interesting book I found in the Joly Collection was The speeches of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran, edited by Thomas Davis and published in London, 1847. John Philpot Curran (1750-1817) was an Irish MP and barrister who defended several [...]

Tagged as: Barrister, Book cleaning, Catholic Defenders, Clean Sweep, Eoin Lynch, Gertrude Curran, John Philpot Curran, Joly Collection, Jury, Libel, MP, Northern Star, Oratory, Rev. Michael Sandys, Robert Emmet, Sam McTier, Sarah Curran, United Irishmen, Whig, William Carey, William Drennan

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The Doyle Brothers

by Bean an Phoist on September 30, 2011 · 4 comments

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by Giada Gelli, Collections Student Ready for the third episode of the Doyle Family saga? In our previous posts we’ve touched briefly on the lives of John Doyle (HB) – about whom I found this interesting biography in Irish as well – and of his third son Richard (Dickie), the Punch Magazine and cheeky fairies [...]

Tagged as: Archbishop McGettigan, Archbishop Murray, Catherine Hogarth, Charles Altamont Doyle, Charles Dickens, Director of National Gallery of Ireland, Doyle Family, Edmund Evans, Gavazzi, George Petrie, Giada Gelli, HB, Henry Edmund Doyle, Henry Grattan, Ink Sketches, James William Doyle, John Doyle, Kossuth, NGI, Official Baronage of England, Richard Doyle, St. Mary's Dominican Convent, Thomas Carlyle

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The Art of Scribbling

by Bean an Phoist on August 19, 2011 · 2 comments

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by Giada Gelli, Preservation Assistant We have all done some scribbling on copies, books, magazines and whatnot at some stage in our lives. There is nothing more pleasant than evading the realms of reality, shutting your ears to the world, and letting your pen (or pencil!) chase the boredom away. But still, I wasn’t expecting [...]

Tagged as: 1720, 1776, Clean Sweep, Conservation, Giada Gelli, Historia Naturali, Incubus, Joly Collection, Latin, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Lord William Robert Fitzgerald, Pierre Coste, Pliny the Elder, Projects, Rare books, Sir Isaac Newton, Traité d'optique