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During conservation; securing the album structure with pamphlet style stitching

Structure is essential – the conservation of albums

Post by Claire Dantin, Conservation intern 2016-17 (NLI’s conservation internship programme is jointly run with the Heritage Council) For a conservator, understanding the original materials of an...
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...
Under the Greenwood Tree by Shemus.

The Shemus Cartoon Collection

by Felix M. Larkin, vice-chair of the NLI Society and member of the NLI’s statutory Readers Advisory Committee. His book Terror and Discord: The Shemus Cartoons in the Freeman’s Journal,...
The Gem, Howth

Death in a Sweetshop

by Pól Ó Duibhir, retired and family history researcher The Connection  –  The day was 16 June 1946. The man in the sweetshop collapsed and died on the spot. There would be no cartoon of this...
The Five Lamps

If ever you go to Dublin town

Wiltshire Collection Online by Orla Fitzpatrick, Irish photo historian October 1998 was a very exciting time to start working at the National Photographic Archive (NPA). The O'Donnell & Tuomey...
Celebrating the first ever Bloomsday on Wednesday, 16th June 1954 - Anthony Cronin, John Ryan and Patrick Kavanagh at the Martello Tower, Sandycove, Dublin. NLI ref.: WIL pk 11(9)

Joyce Manuscripts Online - Beta but Beautiful!

by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student Bloomsday On the 16th of June, 1954 the first Bloomsday was celebrated in Ireland. Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Tom Joyce and John...
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...
From our Lawrence Cabinet photographs - Tourists motoring past Long Tunnel Cottage, Glengariff, Co. Cork, circa 1906/07. NLI ref. LCAB 08742

Improving access to the Lawrence Collection

by Aoife O’Connell, Catalogue Development Student The National Library of Ireland holds a number of historically valuable and interesting photographic collections. Perhaps the best known and most...
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...
From title page of Magazine of Magazines, May 1756. NLI call no. J 05

Limerick's Magazine of Magazines, 1751-69

by Justin Furlong, Periodicals Librarian We are always keen here at the National Library to collaborate with other institutions and libraries. With this in mind, we were very pleased to be approached...