Manuscripts

An Irish sheep tale – 700 year-old parchments conserved

by Bean an Phoist on May 24, 2013 · 2 comments

by Élodie Lévêque, Project Conservator An extraordinary manuscript collection; the Ormond Collection has been called the ‘most important Anglo-Norman family archive in Ireland’. It encompasses almost 700 years of Irish history, from the first influx of Norman settlers, to the workings of the feudal system, and the Butler family lordship of almost half of Ireland. [...]

Tagged as: Anglo-Norman, Beeswax, Butler Family, Calendar of Ormond Deeds, Calf's Intestine, Chromophores, Collagen Fibres, Conservation, Controlled humidification, Elodie Leveque, Gelatine Solution, Gelatinisation, Goldbeaters' Skin, Humidity, Irish Manuscripts Commission, Lamb Parchment, Manuscripts, Mould, Mould Enzymes, Mylar, Ormond Collection, Ormond Deeds, Parchment, Pigments, Sheepskin, The Ireland Funds, Water Vapour, Wax Seals

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The Seamus Heaney Literary Papers

by Bean an Phoist on April 18, 2013 · 1 comment

in Cataloguing,Collections,Manuscripts

by Frances Clarke, Archivist of the Seamus Heaney Literary Papers, 1963-2010 In November 2011 the National Library of Ireland acquired one of its most important donations for many years – the literary papers of the Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. The papers have since been catalogued (I was fortunate to work on this collection) and are [...]

Tagged as: Belfast Group, Blackberry Picking, Child Lost, Department of Manuscripts, Diaries, Donations, Door Into The Dark, Ezra Pound, Frances Clarke, Gallarus Oratory, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Human Chain, In Gallarus Oratory, Literary Papers, Manuscripts, Mycenae Lookout, Nobel Laureate, North, Notebooks, Philip Larkin, Professor of Poetry, Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, Seamus Heaney Archive Project, Seeing Things, Station Island, Ted Hughes, The Redress of Poetry, The Spirit Level, Thomas Kilroy, W.B. Yeats, Wintering Out

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There once was a Welsh priest called Gerald

by Bean an Phoist on November 29, 2012 · 1 comment

in Collections,Exhibitions

by Nikki Ralston, Exhibitions One of the pleasures of our collections is that they provide the opportunity to appreciate not only the differences between the past and our own times, but to recognise something of ourselves in those who inhabited that past. Just when you least expect it you’ll come across a phrase or fact [...]

Tagged as: 12th century, A.B. Scott, Book of Kells app, Conquest of Ireland, Exhibitions, Expugnatio Hibernica, F.X. Martin, Gerald of Wales, Gerallt Gymro, Giraldus, Giraldus Cambrensis, Henry I, Illuminated Manuscripts, Kingship, Manuscripts, Maurice Fitzgerald, Nest, Nikki Ralston, Normans, R.R. Davies, Topographia Hiberniae, Topography of Ireland, William de Barri, Your NLI