Aoife O Connor

Do not try this at home

by Bean an Phoist on February 23, 2012 · 0 comments

in Collections,Exhibitions,Printed books,Rare books

by Aoife O Connor, co-curator of Particles of the Past exhibition In deciding what to put into our Discover: Particles of the Past exhibition for Dublin City of Science 2012, Robert Boyle was top of the list. We have an excellent collection of his published works and he’s a well known and important figure in [...]

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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 [...]

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Small Lives

by Aoife O Connor on August 23, 2011 · 7 comments

in Collections,Exhibitions,Photographs

We might not know most of their names or where they are from, but I got to know the children in the upcoming Small Lives Exhibition very well. I started work on the exhibition back in April, going through our collection of digitised photographs. I put them all into a folder and pored over them trying [...]

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