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![Letter from Neal McMonagle, Morris Island [South Carolina], to his brother Cornelius McMonagle](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2025-12/vtls000941976_001_0.jpg?h=a55a8d34&itok=AgSdVLnG)
Searching for images of The Great Famine?
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...
William Vincent Wallace Bicentenary
by Dr Una Hunt, pianist, broadcaster and Irish music specialist William Vincent Wallace Born Waterford, Ireland 1812; died Chateau de Bagen, France 1865 The bicentenary of a neglected and...
NLI's free photographic exhibition featuring Kerry celebrates the age of analogue photography in Ireland
Celebrate Culture Night 2025 at the NLI
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...
Seachtain na Gaeilge 2025
The Irish in the American Civil War
by Gavin Finlay The American Civil War of 1861-65 is one of modern history’s most catastrophic conflicts. With approximately 750,000 fatalities and 400,000 wounded, it remains the deadliest war in...
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