Felix M. Larkin

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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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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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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