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Step Back to 1985: NLI Live Aid Archive Goes Digital

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...

Yours fondly, Patrick
by Nora-Jane Thornton, National Photographic Archive (and Unashamed Romantic) Closure, not the most romantic of sentiments, seems to be the message of this letter. It was written by the poet, Patrick...

Talking Heads
by Giada Gelli, Collections Student Detail from Doing Penance in a White Sheet by HB or John Doyle and some of Doyle's "heads", Sketch no. 617, NLI call no. PD 4031 TX 1 So where were we...? A few...

Online Exhibition | A Modern Eye: Helen Hooker O'Malley's Ireland

Joyce Manuscripts Online - Beta but Beautiful!
by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student Bloomsday On the 16th of June, 1954 the first Bloomsday was celebrated in Ireland. Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Tom Joyce and John...

NLI invites applications for the position of Director

RTÉ exhibition Ireland on the Box now open at the NPA
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