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Let's Get Political ... The NLI's Web Archive

by Maria Ryan, Web Archivist. This week marks six years since the National Library of Ireland (NLI) began collecting and archiving websites. It is also six years since the 2011 General Election and...
Digitised

We've been doing our hard sums

by Jenny Doyle,  Digitisation Programme Co-ordinator 42,430 + 12,000 = 11% For those of you with Holmesian standard detection abilities, apologies for this update, as you have probably already...
WWI

WWI Collection Day

by Josh Hughes, NLI project intern and MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture, TCD On Thursday, 21 March 2013, the National Library of Ireland will host its third collection day on behalf of the...
One of the more imaginative 404 pages from the folks at Lileks.com

Error 404? The horror, The horror!

Have your say on Web Archiving at the National Library of Ireland by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student While it probably hasn’t quite made it into the Oxford English dictionary yet, the...
The Temple at Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan from our Lawrence Photographic Collection, late 19th century (L_ROY_09002); Then photographed on a sunny Sunday, 9 September 1990 at 1.30 p.m. (LPP_15A/26)

Then, Then and Now Photographic Projects

by Pádraig Laffan, Vice-Chairperson of The Federation of Local History Societies The Federation for Ulster Local Studies and The Federation of Local History Societies and The National Library...
Our WWI Family History Roadshow takes place here at the National Library of Ireland on Wednesday, 21 March 2012 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Family Fragments from the First World War

History as the Sum of Our Stories by Avice-Claire McGovern, Librarian The digital age has caused a shift in our collective remembrance practices. No longer solely the province of professional...
O'Casey's Codex, Devon, 1952 NLI ref.: LO 11,702

We love...

Bean an Phoist says:  A few weeks ago, I asked NLI staff to pick things they love in our collections (maybe also about love) and to write about them for Valentine's Day. Those who weren't nimble...
We're still looking after election posters 'in the flesh', but we've also started web archiving - firstly the February 2011 General Election and most recently the Presidential Election. This Sinn Féin election poster dates from 1918, while the Dylan Haskins election web page was harvested on 21 February 2011...

Behind the scenes

by Jenny Doyle, Oscail Programme Manager While the National Library holds wonderful collections of rare and antiquarian books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, prints and drawings (some of which...
John Philpot Curran, seated, surrounded by some Illustrious Sons of Ireland including Patrick Sarsfield, Oliver Plunkett, Brian Boru and Thomas Davis. NLI ref. PD HP (1875) 1

The Right Honourable John Philpot Curran

by Eoin Lynch, Conservation Assistant While working on The Clean Sweep book cleaning project, an interesting book I found in the Joly Collection was The speeches of the Right Honourable John Philpot...