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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...
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Celebrating the Commons on Flickr, Part Deux

This is our second blog post celebrating the 5th anniversary of The Commons on Flickr which falls tomorrow, Wednesday 16 January. This means a 5th Birthday for the Library of Congress photostream....
Flickr Commons

Celebrating The Commons on Flickr

Next Wednesday, 16 January, is the 5th anniversary of The Commons on Flickr. 56 libraries, archives, museums and galleries all over the world (including us) make up Flickr Commons. We all share our...
Your NLI signage

Welcome to Your NLI

by Nikki Ralston, Exhibitions Our new Front Hall display proudly says “Welcome to Your NLI”, not the NLI or our NLI but Yours. After all, as a public collection the National Library of Ireland...
Gulliver's Travels

5.2 million reasons to do a stock check

by Nora-Jane Thornton, National Photographic Archive When asked if I would like to relocate from our Manuscript Department to the National Photographic Archive in Meeting House Square in Temple Bar,...
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...
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...
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 Republic, the official organ of the Irish Republican Association of South Africa - Strength in our hands, truth on our tongues, & cleanness in our hearts

'This lonely propagandist in a new field...'

Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian This is the second in a series of blogs connected to a joint project (Newspaper Descriptors Project) by the National Library of Ireland and 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...
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...
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...