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Sister Caroline and Brother James
by Maria O'Shea, Manuscripts Student We have a number of letters here at the National Library written by the nationalist sympathiser Caroline Margaret Douglas, Marchioness of Queensberry, including...

Farewell Thom, Hello Doyle
by Giada Gelli, Preservation Assistant As the cleaning of the Thom Collection drew to an end yesterday, we thought it fair to take a moment to talk about its beauty and richness. This stunning...

Poetry Aloud 2012
by Bríd O'Sullivan and Holly Furlong, Learning and Outreach To introduce POETRY ALOUD to the uninitiated, consider approximately 3,200 poems spoken by almost 1,600 students from schools all over...

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Dublin Lockout Cartoons of Ernest Kavanagh
Part of our BiblioFiles Series - Wednesday 23 January at 7pm James Curry will be discussing the Dublin Lockout cartoons of EK or Ernest Kavanagh (1884-1916) next Wednesday 23rd in our Seminar Room....

Family History Research
by Ciara Kerrigan, Research Services Thousands of people visit us here at the NLI each year to carry out research on their family history. Many of these visitors know little or nothing about where to...

If ever you go to Dublin town
Wiltshire Collection Online by Orla Fitzpatrick, Irish photo historian October 1998 was a very exciting time to start working at the National Photographic Archive (NPA). The O'Donnell & Tuomey...

Labour World
Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian This is the fourth in a series of blogs connected to a joint project (Newspaper Descriptors Project) by the National Library of Ireland and the...

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...
Romantic Ireland is NOT Dead and Gone
by Yvette Campbell, Cataloguer, Joseph Holloway Collection As I was working away cataloguing the NLI's wonderful Joseph Holloway Collection with its focus on the theatre scene in Ireland and...
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