by Katy Milligan, NLI habitué and PhD student at TRIARC (The Irish Art Research Centre, TCD) Lurking among the shelves of the NLI is a group of texts which has lately caught my attention. While I intially began looking at guidebooks to Dublin to supplement my current PhD research (which looks at depictions of Dublin [...]
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Advertising,
Carlisle Bridge,
Dignam's Dublin Guide,
Empire,
Great Industrial Exhibition,
Guide Books,
Hand Book for Dublin and its Environs,
Home Rule,
Illustrated Bits,
Irish Industrial Exhibition,
Jackeen,
James Dignam,
James Fraser,
Katy Milligan,
Maps,
Nelson's Pillar
by Sean Smith, Researcher at our “Palace to Procrastination” Lawyers and the legal profession, where would we be without them? If it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t have Dickens’ Bleak House and the interminable case of Jarndyce v Jarndyce. We wouldn’t have the on-going, lengthy and costly tribunals and we wouldn’t have the colourful carnival [...]
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Attorneys,
Bar Club,
Barristers,
Benchers,
Four Courts,
Grand Day,
Henrietta Street,
Inns of Court,
Inns Quay,
Irish Bar,
James Gandon,
John Philpot Curran,
King's Inns,
Lawyers,
Open University,
Richard Edgeworth,
Sean Smith,
Society of the King's Inns,
Townsend Street
by Áine Finegan, former Research and Reference Team Student As the City of Science for 2012, Dublin is playing host to all things scientific this year and here at the National Library we’re embracing this with a new science-themed exhibition at 2/3 Kildare Street – Particles of the Past. This exhibition is all about uncovering [...]
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Athene Donald,
Coach-making,
Dublin City of Science 2012,
Dublin Society,
Edgeworth Papers,
Erasmus Darwin,
Maria Edgeworth,
Particles of the Past,
Richard Edgeworth,
Richard Lovell Edgeworth,
Science,
Telegraphy