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Further Research
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,...
Corporate Information
Talking Heads
by Giada Gelli, Collections Student Detail from Doing Penance in a White Sheet by HB or John Doyle and some of Doyle's "heads", Sketch no. 617, NLI call no. PD 4031 TX 1 So where were we...? A few...
Family History
Maps
Photographs
Commissioners of Irish Lights Collection
by Mike Bors (National Photographic Archive / Dublin Institute of Technology Archival Internship 2014) The National Photographic Archive (NPA) and Dublin Institute of Technology’s (DIT) annual...
Web archiving: The National Ploughing Championship
A lesson on the limits of the Internet
by Michael Seery, NLI reader / chemistry lecturer / local historian extraordinaire The problem with the Internet is that it’s really, just, very good. With a few keywords, I can easily compile...
Guide Books to the Second City in the Empire
by Katy Milligan, NLI habitué and PhD student at TRIARC (The Irish Art Research Centre, TCD) Lurking among the shelves of the NLI is a group of texts which has lately caught my attention. While I...
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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...
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