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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...
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...
A view of the four courts

Pettyfoggers and Vipers

by Sean Smith, Researcher at our "Palace to Procrastination" Lawyers and the legal profession, where would we be without them? If it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t have Dickens’ Bleak House and...
Maria Kirwan

The Ireland's Eye Murder

by Abigail Rieley, writer and journalist Hidden in the National Library’s collection of prints and drawings is the face of a murder victim. Maria Louisa Kirwan died exactly 160 years ago. She was...
Freeman's Journal

The Freeman's Journal

Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian This is the third in a series of blogs connected to a joint project (Newspaper Descriptors Project) by the National Library of Ireland and the...
From our Portrait Collections, William Vincent Wallace by Francois Davignon. Lithograph by Endicott. NLI ref. EP WAL-WI (1) III

William Vincent Wallace Bicentenary

by Dr Una Hunt, pianist, broadcaster and Irish music specialist William Vincent Wallace Born Waterford, Ireland 1812; died Chateau de Bagen, France 1865 The bicentenary of a neglected and...
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...
LEAP YEAR A two to one Chance by Lance Thackery, 1904. From our Niall Murphy Collection, Ephemera

The Course of True Love

Bean an Phoist says:  Honora has so many great collections to choose from that it would have been cruel and heartless to restrict her to just one item that she loves, so here are just some of her...
This illustration in our Prints & Drawings collection shows that safety lessons were learned following the sinking of the Titanic (supplement from the Parisian daily, Le Petit Journal, no. 16, June 1912)

Poor old Titanic, it is a heart-rending story

by Áine Finegan, Reference Team Student The centenary of the sinking of the Titanic is fast approaching with the one-hundredth anniversary of both her maiden voyage and demise in April 2012. The...
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...