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Remembering 1916, Recording 2016 - The National Library Web Archive
Why is the National Library archiving key Irish websites? The web is a fluid and transformative place, and research indicates that up to 60% of URLS have been deleted or changed after just two...

Ordering Material
Ordering Material
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Step Back to 1985: NLI Live Aid Archive Goes Digital

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Serials
Serials

Welcome to Your NLI
by Nikki Ralston, Exhibitions Our new Front Hall display proudly says “Welcome to Your NLI”, not the NLI or our NLI but Yours. After all, as a public collection the National Library of Ireland...

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...

Video recording: Annual Hassett Yeats Lecture 2023

Celebrating Heritage Week at the NLI

A brief essay entitled...
... a one-armed entrepreneur, the defining of Irish photography, and how the Easter Rising stole a part of Irish photographic history! by Guy Phenix, Glasgow Based Stuff Maker In 1865 a young man...
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