Journalism

Simone Téry, the Human Question Mark in Ireland

by Bean an Phoist on February 14, 2013 · 2 comments

in Collections,Guest Bloggers

by Oliver O’Hanlon, PhD student, University College Cork Simone Téry travelled to Ireland at a seminal moment in the birth of modern Ireland. My research involves analysing newspaper articles written by French journalists who visited Ireland during the twentieth century, to see how Ireland was being reported in the French press at this time. This [...]

Tagged as: AE, En Irlande, Flammarion, George Russell, Human Question Mark, Irish Civil War, Irish War of Independence, Journalism, L’île des bardes, L’Oeuvre, Michael Brennan, Michael Collins, Oliver O'Hanlon, Reportage, Sean O'Casey, Simone Téry, The Irish Statesman

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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 [...]

Tagged as: 19th century, Abigail Rieley, Ballinagh, Brothel, Cavan, Claremorris, Constable Cosgrave, Cosgrave, Crime, Criminal Courts of Justice, Cut-throat razor, Daniel H. Webster, Dismembered, Dr. Creighton, Emma Fawcett, Faris, Freeman's Journal, French Street, Galway, George Orwell, Journalism, Microfilm, Murder, Newspapers, Prendergast, Queen Victoria, Shotgun

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Dancing Angels and Devilish Microfilm

by Bean an Phoist on August 3, 2011 · 1 comment

in Guest Bloggers,Microfilm,Newspapers

by Abigail Rieley, Writer & NLI Reader For me, former Taoiseach Charlie Haughey will always be inextricably linked to the rattling of microfilm readers. I was sitting at one in the Reading Room in 1992 when he made his resignation speech, listening to the reaction from Leinster House next door on the headphones of my [...]

Tagged as: Abigail Rieley, Charles Haughey, Irish Times, Journalism, Leinster House, Michael Stamp, Microfilm, National Museum, Newspapers, Putti, Reading Room

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