Prints & Drawings

The Freeman’s Journal

by Bean an Phoist on August 21, 2012 · 5 comments

in Guest Bloggers,Newspapers,Prints & Drawings,Projects

Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian This is the third 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: Charles Stewart Parnell, Ernest Forbes, Felix M. Larkin, Freeman, Freeman's Journal, Irish Daily Independent, Irish Independent, Irish Parliamentary Party, Justin Furlong, National Press, Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland, Newspaper Descriptors Project, Newspapers, NPHFI, Phil Blake, Public Register, Shemus, Sir John Gray, The Lepracaun, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Weekly Freeman, Weekly Freeman & National Press

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William Vincent Wallace Bicentenary

by Bean an Phoist on March 9, 2012 · 25 comments

in Collections,Guest Bloggers,Music,Prints & Drawings

by Dr Una Hunt, pianist, broadcaster and Irish music specialist William Vincent Wallace Born Waterford, Ireland 1812; died Chateau de Bagen, France 1865 The bicentenary of a neglected and uniquely-individual Irish composer will be celebrated on March 11th 2012. And, on the day, Waterford city will honour the birth of one of its most famous [...]

Tagged as: America, Australia, Bicentenary, Broadway, CD, Composer, Department of Arts Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Drawing Room Music, Facsimile Album, Instrumentalist, Ladies of the United States, Lithographs, Maritana, Michael William Balfe, Musician, New York Philarmonic Orchestra, Piano, RTÉ Lyric fm, Sarony & Major, Spearing & Stutzman, Una Hunt, Violin, Virtuoso, Waterford, William Hall & Son, William Vincent Wallace

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Golden hands, troubled soul – the genius of Charles Altamont Doyle

by Bean an Phoist on March 1, 2012 · 7 comments

in Collections,Prints & Drawings

by Giada Gelli, Collections Student Do you remember last year’s series of posts about the artistically talented Doyle family? We talked about John Doyle (the father) and his sons Richard, James and Henry and now it is the turn of Charles Altamont Doyle (1832-1892) whom, I have to confess, is my favourite of them all. [...]

Tagged as: Arthur Conan Doyle, Artist, Charles Altamont Doyle, Depression, Director of National Gallery of Ireland, Drawings, Edinburgh, Giada Gelli, Harry Clarke, Henry Doyle, Henry Fuseli, Illustrator, James Doyle, John Doyle, Michael Baker, Montrose Royal Lunatic Asylum, National Gallery of Ireland, Nature, Prints & Drawings, Punch Magazine, Richard Dadd, Richard Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Sketchbooks, The Doyle Diary