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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...

An Introduction to Digital Collections

The ingenious Mr. Edgeworth
by Áine Finegan, former Research and Reference Team Student As the City of Science for 2012, Dublin is playing host to all things scientific this year and here at the National Library we're...

Decade of Centenaries Publish 2023 Programme

The British and Colonial Druggist
by Inez J Fletcher, Cataloguer & Director of Irish ISSN Centre The British and Colonial Druggist, January 1889 to December 1892, in all its beautifully bound glory... It's on our shelves at call...

Who reads ULYSSES?
by Rob Berry, Cartoonist on ULYSSES "SEEN" "If you can put your finger through it, it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see." - James Joyce The quality of art; it really is just a...

Video recording: Annual Hassett Yeats Lecture 2023
Secrets in the fibres: Mezzotint Prints and Dublin Paper Trade in the 18th Century
Dr. Neassa Doherty (Volunteer NLI Prints & Drawings Dept., 2012 & PhD Graduate, NUIG, 2015) & Louise O’Connor (NLI Conservation Dept.) In 1742, the Dublin engraver and printseller,...

The NLI through a New Lens

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