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Then, Then and Now Photographic Projects
by Pádraig Laffan, Vice-Chairperson of The Federation of Local History Societies The Federation for Ulster Local Studies and The Federation of Local History Societies and The National Library...

Poetry very much Aloud
Noel Bannon is a teacher at St. Michael’s Holy Faith Secondary School in Finglas, Dublin 11, which is a designated DEIS school (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools), and he talks about...

Online Exhibition | Power and Privilege: The Big House in Ireland

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 Freeman's Journal
Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian This is the third in a series of blogs connected to a joint project (Newspaper Descriptors Project) by the National Library of Ireland and the...

It’s not all just books and letters: The Art Ó Bríain Papers at the National Library
By Oliver O'Hanlon, PhD Student Department of French and School of History, University College Cork. You never know what you might come across while researching in the Manuscripts Department of the...

National Library photographic exhibition documents LGBTI+ life and activism in Ireland

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...

NLI's photographic exhibition featuring Longford celebrates the age of analogue photography in Ireland

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,...
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