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Mapping the Past, Shaping the Future

Seamus Heaney and the Classics

'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...

IN PRAISE OF THE DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY by Felix M. Larkin
The Dictionary of Irish Biography (the DIB), published in nine volumes and online in 2009, is a work of truly historic significance. The model for all books of this kind, the old British...

The Press Photographers Association of Ireland Collection
by Jason Kearney, BA Photography student, DIT As part of our third year in college, we had the option to study the archive in context – a progression from an earlier module in which we studied the...

The acquisition of Edna O’Brien’s Papers (2009 – 2021)

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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...

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