Digitisation

Joyce Manuscripts Online – Beta but Beautiful!

by Bean an Phoist on June 15, 2012 · 5 comments

in Bloomsday,Cataloguing,Digitisation,Manuscripts,Online Resources,Oscail,Projects

by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student Bloomsday On the 16th of June, 1954 the first Bloomsday was celebrated in Ireland. Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Tom Joyce and John Ryan met in Dublin to trace the Ulysses route, starting at the Martello Tower in Sandycove through Sandymount Strand and on towards the shadier parts [...]

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Limerick’s Magazine of Magazines, 1751-69

by Bean an Phoist on August 26, 2011 · 0 comments

in Collections,Digitisation,Periodicals

by Justin Furlong, Periodicals Librarian We are always keen here at the National Library to collaborate with other institutions and libraries. With this in mind, we were very pleased to be approached by Prof. Geraldine Sheridan of the University of Limerick in relation to their project to digitise the Magazine of Magazines (1751-1769), Limerick’s first [...]

Tagged as: 18th century, A. James, Andrew Welsh, Booksellers, C. Sullivan, Digitisation, G. Conor, Journals, Justin Furlong, Limerick, Magazine of Magazines, Magazines, National Digital Learning Resources, NDLR, P. & G. Bagnell, P. Bagnell, Periodicals, Prof. Geraldine Sheridan, Stationers, University of Limerick, W. Flyn

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Wanted: One strong, healthy young Man

by Bean an Phoist on August 12, 2011 · 3 comments

in Collections,Microfilm,Newspapers

by Justin Furlong, Newspaper Librarian The National Library of Ireland has one of the strongest holdings of Irish newspapers in the world. See our Newspaper Database for more details on what we have. However early runs of newspapers (particularly before the introduction of legal deposit in 1927) have occasionally eluded us. In June 2011, I [...]

Tagged as: Ads, Advertisements, Adverts, Clonmel Lunatic Asylum, Digitisation, F.G. Morteshed, Hornsby Ploughs, Justin Furlong, Legal deposit, Microfilm, Nenagh Guardian, Nenagh News, Newspaper Librarian, Newspapers, Tipperary Local Studies Library, Undertaking

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