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Prints and Drawings

Calling all County students: Don’t miss your chance to enter ‘Poetry Aloud’ with the National Library of Ireland and Poetry Ireland

Seamus Heaney and the Classics

Then and Now: Letters in the Library

A Watercolour Wash
by Elodie Leveque - Conservation Intern, Heritage Council Have you ever wondered how we conserve ancient objects in the National Library of Ireland's collections? How we tackle things like dirt and...

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,...

Late at the Library: programme of free events

Sligo Dispute
We have a Dublin Lockout centenary exhibition coming up here at the National Library of Ireland this August, but many other protracted labour struggles took place in other parts of Ireland in 1913....

If ever you go to Dublin town
Wiltshire Collection Online by Orla Fitzpatrick, Irish photo historian October 1998 was a very exciting time to start working at the National Photographic Archive (NPA). The O'Donnell & Tuomey...

“Ghosts” down the microscope! Image id’ing ain’t easy!
By Gabrielle Vergnoux, Conservation Intern, National Library of Ireland At first sight, an image of “Cork Harbour by Robert Lowe Stopford in 1862”, as is written on the verso, seems to do exactly...
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