Projects

Newspaper Descriptors Project

by Bean an Phoist on March 7, 2012 · 19 comments

in Collections,Guest Bloggers,Newspapers,Projects

Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian The National Library of Ireland in association with the Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland is pleased to launch its Newspaper Descriptors Project. This project hopes to provide short descriptors or pen notes for the newspaper titles listed in the National Library’s Newspaper Database. The descriptors will [...]

Tagged as: Broadsheet, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Chief News Editor, Circulation, Eamon de Valera, Editors, Erskine Childers, Evening Herald, Evening Mail, Evening Press, Fianna Fáil, Independent Newspapers, Irish Press, Irish Press Corporation, Irish Press Group, Irish Press Limited, Irish Press Newspapers, Irish Times, Journalists, Justin Furlong, Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland, Newspaper Database, Newspaper Descriptors Project, Newspapers, Ralph Ingersoll, Ray Burke, RTÉ News, Sean Lemass, Sunday Press, Vivion de Valera

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Researching the Irish Famine

by Bean an Phoist on January 20, 2012 · 3 comments

in Learning & Outreach,Projects,Research

by Sarah O’Connor, Learning & Outreach Over the summer of 2011, the Learning and Outreach department here at the National Library worked on a new project about the Irish Famine with St. John of God Carmona Services. This is our fifth year working with some of the education and training programmes offered by Carmona Services [...]

Tagged as: 1840, Adult Learning, Aoife O Connor, Autobiographies, Bríd O'Sullivan, Café Joly, Carmona Services, Choices, Dalkey Education Centre, Emigration, Eviction, Famine, Fiona Ross, Gruel, Improvisation, Irish Famine, Lakeland, Learning & Outreach, Limerick, Noel Kissane, Poor Law Commissioners, Poor Law Unions, Potato, Potato Blight, Primary Sources, Research, Ríona McMorrow, Sarah O'Connor, Social History, St. John of God, Tipperary, Travel Training, Victoriana, W.B. Yeats, Workhouses, Workshops

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New Adventures in Periodicals

by Bean an Phoist on January 18, 2012 · 3 comments

in Acquisitions,Cataloguing,Periodicals,Projects

by Justin Furlong, Periodicals/Newspapers Librarian Library users often only get to interact with staff in our various Reading Rooms and may be unaware of the many behind the scenes projects that are taking place. With this thought in mind I felt it would be useful to detail some of the developments currently happening in the [...]

Tagged as: Acquisitions, British and Colonial Druggist, Ceased Title Project, Electoral Registers, Inez J Fletcher, Irish Chemist and Druggist, Journals, Justin Furlong, Magazines, Meatmatter, Metalworks, Minor Mag, Online Check-in, Periodicals, Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, Projects, RTE Guide, Spotter, The Yoke