by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student Bloomsday On the 16th of June, 1954 the first Bloomsday was celebrated in Ireland. Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Tom Joyce and John Ryan met in Dublin to trace the Ulysses route, starting at the Martello Tower in Sandycove through Sandymount Strand and on towards the shadier parts [...]
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by Giada Gelli, former NLI Collections Student There is always a mixed bag of feelings waiting at the end of a project: something is over and a void opens up in front of us, but the sense of accomplishment can be overwhelming. Something has come to an end, but while this is the end of [...]
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Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian This is the second 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 [...]
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@NLIreland Thanks! Hope you're enjoying seeing Nat Library archive on screen on #TheBigHouse - 13/05/2013 21:29
@NLIreland Welcome back! Missed you rattling around the place... 
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@_BigMountain Didn't RT, but see https://t.co/2oHFykY1gN! Ta for reminder. - 13/05/2013 17:32See our On the Flickr Commons photostream or our All Kinds of Everything photostream (Manuscripts, Prints & Drawings, Ephemera, Exhibitions).
Taster images below...
Launch of Century Ireland
Launch of Century Ireland
Launch of Century Ireland
First Night of "Ever the Twain" by Lennox Robinson
Martial Law
When the wind blows
Dublin as it Stood in the Year 1610...
Pitch Capping the People of Prosperous
Burning of Militia Barracks, 1798
Athlone in 1685
... we pledge ourselves solemnly ...
Arran Isles - 1894
Cruiskeen Lawn
The Gathering, 1950s stylee
No Mourning to be worn that day.
Mr. Michael Collins will speak...
I`ll go too!
Your country needs you
Two Faces of a Winding Clock
Pantheon Phusitechnikon
