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Death in a Sweetshop
by Pól Ó Duibhir, retired and family history researcher The Connection – The day was 16 June 1946. The man in the sweetshop collapsed and died on the spot. There would be no cartoon of this...
Exploring Aviation in Ireland – from the NLI Collections
Decade of Centenaries Publish 2023 Programme
General Election 2011 Web Archiving
by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student & Maria O’Shea, Manuscript Student Here at the National Library we try to collect as much as we can that might not otherwise be collected and...
Fairytale of New York?
by Justin Furlong, Acquisitions Librarian I recently returned from a visit to New York. One of the highlights of the trip was a tour of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum which tells the stories of...
NLI’s free photographic exhibition featuring Donegal celebrates the age of analogue photography in Ireland
National Library receives records of #WakingTheFeminists movement for future digital preservation
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A Magnificent Pile! A brief architectural tour of the main library building
by Justin Furlong, Assistant Keeper, National Library of Ireland On August 29th, 1890, the present day National Library Ireland building was opened. Inspired by the suggestions of William Archer,...
Structure is essential – the conservation of albums
Post by Claire Dantin, Conservation intern 2016-17 (NLI’s conservation internship programme is jointly run with the Heritage Council) For a conservator, understanding the original materials of an...
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