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Mapping the Past, Shaping the Future
2025 Annual Hassett WB Yeats Lecture
An Introduction to Digital Collections
Joyce Manuscripts Online - Beta but Beautiful!
by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student Bloomsday On the 16th of June, 1954 the first Bloomsday was celebrated in Ireland. Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Tom Joyce and John...
The Seamus Heaney Literary Papers
by Frances Clarke, Archivist of the Seamus Heaney Literary Papers, 1963-2010 In November 2011 the National Library of Ireland acquired one of its most important donations for many years – the...
18th & 19th Century warming autumnal recipes from the National Library of Ireland collections to recreate at home
Pettyfoggers and Vipers
by Sean Smith, Researcher at our "Palace to Procrastination" Lawyers and the legal profession, where would we be without them? If it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t have Dickens’ Bleak House and...
Celebrate Culture Night 2025 at the NLI
Celebrate Culture Night 2026 at the NLI
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