Nikki Ralston

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

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Welcome to Your NLI

by Bean an Phoist on November 1, 2012 · 2 comments

in Collections,Exhibitions,Projects

by Nikki Ralston, Exhibitions Our new Front Hall display proudly says “Welcome to Your NLI”, not the NLI or our NLI but Yours. After all, as a public collection the National Library of Ireland does belong to all, it’s Ours. Perhaps you already had a sense of this public ownership, but had you thought about [...]

Tagged as: Exhibitions, Gerald of Wales, Giraldus Cambrensis, Nikki Ralston, Projects, Topographia Hiberniae, Your NLI

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The Clean Sweep – It’s the Final Countdown!

by Bean an Phoist on October 6, 2011 · 1 comment

in Collections,Conservation,Projects,Rare books

by Nikki Ralston, Conservation Back in July 2011, I posted a short blog introducing The Clean Sweep, a preservation project aiming to clean and box our rare book collections. We have now started the final phase of the project, which will run to the end of 2011, and I thought that readers might be interested [...]

Tagged as: Books, British Museum, Charles Mackay, Clean Sweep, Cleaning, Conservation, Dr. Jaspar Robert Joly, Geoffrey Gambado, Joly Collection, Nikki Ralston, Projects, R.D.S., Rare book team, Rare books, René Descartes, Royal Dublin Society, Tours, Trustees' Room, Watts Phillips

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