W.B. Yeats

Yeats in Love, Joyce Skateboards and Dreamboat Laureate

by Bean an Phoist on February 10, 2012 · 5 comments

in Collections,Guest Bloggers,Prints & Drawings

by Annie West, Illustrator Annie recently donated a selection of her prints to our Prints & Drawings Collection Yeats in Love Looking at my work, you’d probably expect to hear I’m busy with my nose in my Collected Works of W.B. Yeats every day, carefully studying every line, looking for nuance, analyzing every simile and [...]

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Researching the Irish Famine

by Bean an Phoist on January 20, 2012 · 3 comments

in Learning & Outreach,Projects,Research

by Sarah O’Connor, Learning & Outreach Over the summer of 2011, the Learning and Outreach department here at the National Library worked on a new project about the Irish Famine with St. John of God Carmona Services. This is our fifth year working with some of the education and training programmes offered by Carmona Services [...]

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Bishop Plunket, Yeats and JFK

by Bean an Phoist on October 19, 2011 · 13 comments

in Guest Bloggers,Research

by FELIX M. LARKIN, Vice-chair of the NLI Society and member of the NLI’s Readers Advisory Committee When I was at school in St Paul’s College, Raheny, the imp in me was always amused by the fact that the old house in the grounds of the school – where the Vincentian priests who ran the [...]

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