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Behind the scenes

by Bean an Phoist on November 23, 2011 · 0 comments

in Collections,Digital Collections,Digitisation,Oscail,Projects,Research

by Jenny Doyle, Oscail Programme Manager While the National Library holds wonderful collections of rare and antiquarian books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, prints and drawings (some of which you’ve read about on this very blog) one of our other jobs is to collect, preserve, promote and make accessible today’s and indeed tomorrow’s books, newspapers, manuscripts, etc. [...]

Tagged as: 1918, 2011 General Election, Born-digital, Daguerreotypes, Dylan Haskins, Election posters, Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Collection, Jenny Doyle, Miss Coddington, Oscail, Oscail Programme, Oscail Programme Manager, Presidential Election, Sinn Féin, Twitpic, Twitter, Web Archiving

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Bishop Plunket, Yeats and JFK

by Bean an Phoist on October 19, 2011 · 13 comments

in Guest Bloggers,Research

by FELIX M. LARKIN, Vice-chair of the NLI Society and member of the NLI’s Readers Advisory Committee When I was at school in St Paul’s College, Raheny, the imp in me was always amused by the fact that the old house in the grounds of the school – where the Vincentian priests who ran the [...]

Tagged as: 4th Baron Plunket, Anti-partition, Benjamin Plunket, Bishop of Meath, Bishop of Tuam Killala and Achonry, Church of Ireland, Dictionary of Irish Biography, Divorce, Dublin Corporation, Felix M. Larkin, Irish Times, JFK, John F. Kennedy, Kildare Place, Raheny, Royal Accession Declaration, Senate, Sinn Féin, St. Anne's Clontarf, St. Paul's College, Sybil Hill, W.B. Yeats

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The Spectre of Blood

by Bean an Phoist on October 12, 2011 · 4 comments

in Guest Bloggers,Microfilm,Newspapers,Research

by Abigail Rieley – Writer, Journalist, Court Reporter & NLI Reader The ghosts of the forgotten haunt the National Library of Ireland; those whose stories lie in out of print pages or hidden in the close-knit column inches of microfilmed newspapers. These are the stories lost in the past, forgotten by the public who once [...]

Tagged as: 19th century, Abigail Rieley, Ballinagh, Brothel, Cavan, Claremorris, Constable Cosgrave, Cosgrave, Crime, Criminal Courts of Justice, Cut-throat razor, Daniel H. Webster, Dismembered, Dr. Creighton, Emma Fawcett, Faris, Freeman's Journal, French Street, Galway, George Orwell, Journalism, Microfilm, Murder, Newspapers, Prendergast, Queen Victoria, Shotgun