Bean an Phoist says: Honora has so many great collections to choose from that it would have been cruel and heartless to restrict her to just one item that she loves, so here are just some of her favourite LOVEly things for Valentine’s Day 2012… by Honora Faul, Curator of Prints & Drawings, Ephemera, [...]
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18th century,
19th century,
Al Goodhart,
Benjamin Rhames,
Cartoons,
Charles Stewart Parnell,
Elizabeth Rivers,
Ephemera,
Frances Ashmore,
Guardian Angels,
Hamlet,
Honora Faul,
John D. Reigh,
John Fergus O'Hea,
John Morley,
Johnny Doughboy found a Rose in Ireland,
Kay Twomey,
Lance Thackery,
Leap Year,
Matrimonial Map,
Mrs Sparks,
Music,
Niall Murphy Collection,
Postcards,
Prints and Drawings,
Sir Thomas Wyatt,
Song Sheet,
United Ireland,
Valentine Card,
Valentine's Day,
Weekly Freeman,
William Gladstone,
William Shakespeare
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 [...]
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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
by Annie West, Illustrator Annie recently donated a selection of her prints to our Prints & Drawings Collection Yeats in Love Looking at my work, you’d probably expect to hear I’m busy with my nose in my Collected Works of W.B. Yeats every day, carefully studying every line, looking for nuance, analyzing every simile and [...]
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Annie West,
Barry Devlin,
Church Warden,
Dogs Playing Snooker,
Drumcliffe,
Heaneyboppers,
Illustrators,
Iseult Gonne MacBride,
James Joyce,
Lake Isle of Innisfree,
Maud Gonne,
Michael D. Higgins,
Nobel Laureate,
Seamus Heaney,
Senator David Norris,
Sligo,
St. Columba's Church,
W.B. Yeats,
Yeats in Love