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December In-Person Tours | Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again
December in-person tours

National Library receives records of #WakingTheFeminists movement for future digital preservation

NLI celebrates St Patrick’s Day with launch of new website

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...

Tracing Thomas Kenny
by Sam McGrath, Cataloguer, Joseph Holloway Collection While cataloguing 19th century books, you can occasionally come across a little hand-written inscription that will make you pause for a moment...

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...

Dublin Lockout Cartoons of Ernest Kavanagh
Part of our BiblioFiles Series - Wednesday 23 January at 7pm James Curry will be discussing the Dublin Lockout cartoons of EK or Ernest Kavanagh (1884-1916) next Wednesday 23rd in our Seminar Room....

Web archiving: Electric Picnic arts-and-music festival

NLI launch pop-up exhibition: Le Grá; Seamus

World Digital Preservation Day 2022

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...
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