Cartoons

Death in a Sweetshop

by Bean an Phoist on March 25, 2013 · 3 comments

in Digitisation,Guest Bloggers,Prints & Drawings

by Pól Ó Duibhir, retired and family history researcher The Connection – The day was 16 June 1946. The man in the sweetshop collapsed and died on the spot. There would be no cartoon of this event. But it was not easily forgotten in the sweetshop owner’s family. The man was Gordon Brewster, artist and [...]

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Cradles and Cases – bringing an exhibition loan back home

by Bean an Phoist on February 7, 2013 · 0 comments

in Conservation

by Audrey McGinley, NLI Conservation Intern At the start of my conservation internship I was involved with the return of a loan from the National Gallery of Ireland exhibition Jack of all Trades: Yeats’s Punch Cartoons and Illustrations by Irish Painters. This loan included 10 prints and drawings, and 6 bound volumes from our NLI [...]

Tagged as: Audrey McGinley, Cartoons, Conservation, Conservation Intern, Exhibitions, Jack B. Yeats, Jack of all Trades, Mylar, National Gallery of Ireland, Punch

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Dublin Lockout Cartoons of Ernest Kavanagh

by Bean an Phoist on January 18, 2013 · 4 comments

in Collections,Events

Part of our BiblioFiles Series – Wednesday 23 January at 7pm James Curry will be discussing the Dublin Lockout cartoons of EK or Ernest Kavanagh (1884-1916) next Wednesday 23rd in our Seminar Room. EK was an important cartoonist, yet relatively unknown today. He produced hard-hitting satirical cartoons for labour and nationalist newspapers, and also lent [...]

Tagged as: 1913, Angel of Freedom, Artist of the Revolution, BiblioFiles, Cartoonist, Cartoons, Dublin Lockout, EK, Ernest Kavanagh, Irish Citizen, Irish Comics Wiki, James Curry, John Redmond, Padraig Yeates