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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

Scandal in High Society
by Eimear Walsh, NLI Manuscript Student Working on the ever-expanding Headfort Estate Collection, I came across the original Will and Kate love affair in Co. Meath of all places: an aristocrat who...

Witness of the Great War: Eugène Lemercier (1886-1915) by Marie Leoutre
Eugène Lemercier, 1914 French painter Eugène Emmanuel Lemercier is not remembered primarily for his artistic work. Rather, his name evokes the vibrant correspondence he sent from the...

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...

St Patrick’s weekend opening hours

Searching for images of The Great Famine?

The Clean Sweep - It's the Final Countdown!
by Nikki Ralston, Conservation Back in July 2011, I posted a short blog introducing The Clean Sweep, a preservation project aiming to clean and box our rare book collections. We have now started the...
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