National Library of Ireland

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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by BARRY PIERCE Transition Year Student (St. Colman’s College, Fermoy, Co. Cork) Video Blogger Poetry Aloud 2010 Semi-Finalist It all started with my English teacher in class saying that there was a poetry competition coming up and that she would like to enter some students. She explained that we would have to learn two poems [...]

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by Eimear Walsh, NLI Manuscript Student Working on the ever-expanding Headfort Estate Collection, I came across the original Will and Kate love affair in Co. Meath of all places: an aristocrat who married a mere commoner! While today’s public may champion Kate Middleton, it took Edwardian society considerably longer to warm to her predecessor, Rosie [...]

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