Justin Furlong

Fairytale of New York?

by Bean an Phoist on November 18, 2011 · 2 comments

in Acquisitions,Collections,Printed books

by Justin Furlong, Acquisitions Librarian I recently returned from a visit to New York. One of the highlights of the trip was a tour of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum which tells the stories of immigrants who lived at 97 Orchard Street, a tenement built in 1863 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. 97 Orchard [...]

Tagged as: 65 Mott Street, 97 Orchard Street, Acquisitions Librarian, Bridget Moore, Diaspora, Dublin Directories, Emigration, Florence Scovel Shinn, Griffin Collection, Irish-American, Joseph Moore, Justin Furlong, Louise Montgomery, New York, Stephen Griffin, Tenement Museum, Tenements, Thom's Almanac, Thom's Directories

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Limerick’s Magazine of Magazines, 1751-69

by Bean an Phoist on August 26, 2011 · 0 comments

in Collections,Digitisation,Periodicals

by Justin Furlong, Periodicals Librarian We are always keen here at the National Library to collaborate with other institutions and libraries. With this in mind, we were very pleased to be approached by Prof. Geraldine Sheridan of the University of Limerick in relation to their project to digitise the Magazine of Magazines (1751-1769), Limerick’s first [...]

Tagged as: 18th century, A. James, Andrew Welsh, Booksellers, C. Sullivan, Digitisation, G. Conor, Journals, Justin Furlong, Limerick, Magazine of Magazines, Magazines, National Digital Learning Resources, NDLR, P. & G. Bagnell, P. Bagnell, Periodicals, Prof. Geraldine Sheridan, Stationers, University of Limerick, W. Flyn

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Wanted: One strong, healthy young Man

by Bean an Phoist on August 12, 2011 · 3 comments

in Collections,Microfilm,Newspapers

by Justin Furlong, Newspaper Librarian The National Library of Ireland has one of the strongest holdings of Irish newspapers in the world. See our Newspaper Database for more details on what we have. However early runs of newspapers (particularly before the introduction of legal deposit in 1927) have occasionally eluded us. In June 2011, I [...]

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