James Joyce

Yeats in Love, Joyce Skateboards and Dreamboat Laureate

by Bean an Phoist on February 10, 2012 · 5 comments

in Collections,Guest Bloggers,Prints & Drawings

by Annie West, Illustrator Annie recently donated a selection of her prints to our Prints & Drawings Collection Yeats in Love Looking at my work, you’d probably expect to hear I’m busy with my nose in my Collected Works of W.B. Yeats every day, carefully studying every line, looking for nuance, analyzing every simile and [...]

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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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How It Is – The Beckett Clodd Collection

by Bean an Phoist on December 19, 2011 · 8 comments

in Acquisitions,Cataloguing,Collections,Conservation,Printed books

by Máire Ní Chonalláin, Assistant Keeper II The Samuel Beckett Collection which belonged to the author’s London bookseller friend, Alan Clodd, has been catalogued. We were fortunate enough to acquire this collection in 2006. The private collection of the Nobel prize-winner’s work is highly regarded as it contains virtually all of Beckett’s works in first [...]

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