Prints & Drawings

Poor old Titanic, it is a heart-rending story

by Bean an Phoist on December 9, 2011 · 2 comments

in Newspapers,Online Resources,Prints & Drawings,Research

by Áine Finegan, Reference Team Student The centenary of the sinking of the Titanic is fast approaching with the one-hundredth anniversary of both her maiden voyage and demise in April 2012. The NLI has some fascinating online resources for gaining an Irish perspective on this disaster which continues to intrigue us today. The story of [...]

Tagged as: 1916 Rising, Áine Finegan, Ballads, Centenaries, Daniel Buckley, Easter Rising, HCPP, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, Irish Newspaper Archives, Jeremiah Burke, John Redmond, Le Petit Journal, Newspapers, Online Resources, Parliamentary Papers, Reference Team Student, Roger Casement, Senan Molony, Sunday Independent, The Irish Aboard Titanic, Titanic

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The Right Honourable John Philpot Curran

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

in Collections,Conservation,Digital Collections,Printed books,Prints & Drawings,Projects

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

in Collections,Printed books,Prints & Drawings

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