Freeman’s Journal

The Ireland’s Eye Murder

by Bean an Phoist on September 6, 2012 · 4 comments

in Collections,Guest Bloggers,Newspapers,Prints & Drawings

by Abigail Rieley, writer and journalist Hidden in the National Library’s collection of prints and drawings is the face of a murder victim. Maria Louisa Kirwan died exactly 160 years ago. She was killed by her husband on Ireland’s Eye, the barren little island that lies just off Howth in North County Dublin on September [...]

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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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The Spectre of Blood

by Bean an Phoist on October 12, 2011 · 4 comments

in Guest Bloggers,Microfilm,Newspapers,Research

by Abigail Rieley – Writer, Journalist, Court Reporter & NLI Reader The ghosts of the forgotten haunt the National Library of Ireland; those whose stories lie in out of print pages or hidden in the close-knit column inches of microfilmed newspapers. These are the stories lost in the past, forgotten by the public who once [...]

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