Charles Stewart Parnell

The Freeman’s Journal

by Bean an Phoist on August 21, 2012 · 5 comments

in Guest Bloggers,Newspapers,Prints & Drawings,Projects

Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian This is the third in a series of blogs connected to a joint project (Newspaper Descriptors Project) by the National Library of Ireland and the Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland (NPHFI). The project hopes to provide short descriptors or pen notes for the newspaper titles listed [...]

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The Course of True Love

by Bean an Phoist on February 14, 2012 · 3 comments

in Collections,Ephemera,Music,Prints & Drawings

Bean an Phoist says:  Honora has so many great collections to choose from that it would have been cruel and heartless to restrict her to just one item that she loves, so here are just some of her favourite LOVEly things for Valentine’s Day 2012…   by Honora Faul, Curator of Prints & Drawings, Ephemera, [...]

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Some reflections on The Dead

by Bean an Phoist on January 13, 2012 · 10 comments

in Guest Bloggers,Printed books

by Felix M. Larkin, Vice-chair of the NLI Society and member of the NLI’s Readers Advisory Committee. His essay on ‘Ulysses and the Freeman’s Journal’ is included in the forthcoming volume of the Dublin James Joyce Journal (No. 4, 2011) The short story ‘The Dead’ is one of Joyce’s best-known and much-loved works. He wrote [...]

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