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Romantic Ireland is NOT Dead and Gone

by Yvette Campbell, Cataloguer, Joseph Holloway Collection As I was working away cataloguing the NLI's wonderful Joseph Holloway Collection with its focus on the theatre scene in Ireland and...
Richard Lovell Edgeworth

The ingenious Mr. Edgeworth

by Áine Finegan, former Research and Reference Team Student As the City of Science for 2012, Dublin is playing host to all things scientific this year and here at the National Library we're...
Robert Boyle, engraving by F.M. La Cave, ca. 1753. NLI ref. EP BOYL-RO (2) I

Do not try this at home

by Aoife O Connor, co-curator of Particles of the Past exhibition In deciding what to put into our Discover: Particles of the Past exhibition for Dublin City of Science 2012, Robert Boyle was top of...
"... snow was general all over Ireland." It certainly was in the photograph taken on 10 December 1870 in the grounds of Clonbrock House, Ahascragh, Galway.

Some reflections on The Dead

by Felix M. Larkin, Vice-chair of the NLI Society and member of the NLI’s Readers Advisory Committee. His essay on 'Ulysses and the Freeman’s Journal' is included in the forthcoming volume of the...
Beckett Clodd Collection, 11A 232

How It Is - The Beckett Clodd Collection

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...
Tenement Museum in the Lower East Side of Manhattan

Fairytale of New York?

by Justin Furlong, Acquisitions Librarian I recently returned from a visit to New York. One of the highlights of the trip was a tour of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum which tells the stories of...
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...
The Barge of Edgar Manned by Eight Kings on the Dee, from A Chronicle of England (1864) by James Doyle

The Doyle Brothers

by Giada Gelli, Collections Student Ready for the third episode of the Doyle Family saga? In our previous posts we’ve touched briefly on the lives of John Doyle (HB) - about whom I found this...
An Incubus drawn in Historia Naturali, NLI call no. J.5908.PLI

The Art of Scribbling

by Giada Gelli, Preservation Assistant We have all done some scribbling on copies, books, magazines and whatnot at some stage in our lives. There is nothing more pleasant than evading the realms of...
Misadventures at Margate, a Legend of Jarvis's Jetty

Don't link yourself with vulgar folks

by Fiona Noonan, Preservation Assistant We are all drawn to books for different reasons - Stories, Authors, Illustrations and Bindings. So, when those of us working on The Clean Sweep Project were...
Cover of Fairyland Pictures from the Elf World by Richard Doyle

Farewell Thom, Hello Doyle

by Giada Gelli, Preservation Assistant As the cleaning of the Thom Collection drew to an end yesterday, we thought it fair to take a moment to talk about its beauty and richness. This stunning...
A very small sample from a recent Ireland Literature Exchange donation

Brooklyn in Brazil

by Justin Furlong, Acquisitions Librarian Have you ever read The Picture of Dorian Gray in Arabic? John Banville in Japanese? Perhaps you would prefer Colum McCann’s IMPAC award winning novel Let...