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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,...
The Spectre of Blood
by Abigail Rieley - Writer, Journalist, Court Reporter & NLI Reader The ghosts of the forgotten haunt the National Library of Ireland; those whose stories lie in out of print pages or hidden in...
Cherish Donate Archive to National Library of Ireland
A lesson on the limits of the Internet
by Michael Seery, NLI reader / chemistry lecturer / local historian extraordinaire The problem with the Internet is that it’s really, just, very good. With a few keywords, I can easily compile...
Customer Charter and Action Plan
Commissioners of Irish Lights Collection
by Mike Bors (National Photographic Archive / Dublin Institute of Technology Archival Internship 2014) The National Photographic Archive (NPA) and Dublin Institute of Technology’s (DIT) annual...
The John Hinde Postcard Collection at the National Photographic Archive.
by Karl Leonard, DIT NPA Internship, Sept-Dec 2013. The Archiving in Context module for BA Photography students at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) provides third year photography students...
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...
Newspaper Descriptors Project
Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian The National Library of Ireland in association with the Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland is pleased to launch its Newspaper...
“Ghosts” down the microscope! Image id’ing ain’t easy!
By Gabrielle Vergnoux, Conservation Intern, National Library of Ireland At first sight, an image of “Cork Harbour by Robert Lowe Stopford in 1862”, as is written on the verso, seems to do exactly...
Error 404? The horror, The horror!
Have your say on Web Archiving at the National Library of Ireland by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student While it probably hasn’t quite made it into the Oxford English dictionary yet, the...
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