Justin Furlong

‘This lonely propagandist in a new field…’

by Bean an Phoist on April 20, 2012 · 2 comments

in Collections,Guest Bloggers,Newspapers,Projects

Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian This is the second 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 [...]

Tagged as: Anglo-Irish Treaty, Art O'Brien, Arthur Griffith, Benjamin Farrington, Bernard Doyle, Central News Agency, Colonel Maurice Moore, Donal P. McCracken, Eason's, Fownes Street, Irish Independent, Irish Republican Association of South Africa, John Mitchel, Justin Furlong, Mark Ryan, Matt Clancy, Maud Gonne, Middelberg Courant, Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland, Newspaper Database, Newspaper Descriptors Project, Patrick J. Little, Rand Revolt, Shan Van Vocht, Sinn Féin, South Africa, The Dawn, The Republic, United Irishman, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Weekly Freeman, William Rooney

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Newspaper Descriptors Project

by Bean an Phoist on March 7, 2012 · 19 comments

in Collections,Guest Bloggers,Newspapers,Projects

Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian The National Library of Ireland in association with the Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland is pleased to launch its Newspaper Descriptors Project. This project hopes to provide short descriptors or pen notes for the newspaper titles listed in the National Library’s Newspaper Database. The descriptors will [...]

Tagged as: Broadsheet, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Chief News Editor, Circulation, Eamon de Valera, Editors, Erskine Childers, Evening Herald, Evening Mail, Evening Press, Fianna Fáil, Independent Newspapers, Irish Press, Irish Press Corporation, Irish Press Group, Irish Press Limited, Irish Press Newspapers, Irish Times, Journalists, Justin Furlong, Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland, Newspaper Database, Newspaper Descriptors Project, Newspapers, Ralph Ingersoll, Ray Burke, RTÉ News, Sean Lemass, Sunday Press, Vivion de Valera

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New Adventures in Periodicals

by Bean an Phoist on January 18, 2012 · 3 comments

in Acquisitions,Cataloguing,Periodicals,Projects

by Justin Furlong, Periodicals/Newspapers Librarian Library users often only get to interact with staff in our various Reading Rooms and may be unaware of the many behind the scenes projects that are taking place. With this thought in mind I felt it would be useful to detail some of the developments currently happening in the [...]

Tagged as: Acquisitions, British and Colonial Druggist, Ceased Title Project, Electoral Registers, Inez J Fletcher, Irish Chemist and Druggist, Journals, Justin Furlong, Magazines, Meatmatter, Metalworks, Minor Mag, Online Check-in, Periodicals, Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, Projects, RTE Guide, Spotter, The Yoke