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A Watercolour Wash
by Elodie Leveque - Conservation Intern, Heritage Council Have you ever wondered how we conserve ancient objects in the National Library of Ireland's collections? How we tackle things like dirt and...
National Library of Ireland announces 2025 winners of all island ‘Poetry Aloud’ competition
Poetry Aloud
Information on Poetry Aloud 2025 is coming soon...
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Poetry Aloud 2012
by Bríd O'Sullivan and Holly Furlong, Learning and Outreach To introduce POETRY ALOUD to the uninitiated, consider approximately 3,200 poems spoken by almost 1,600 students from schools all over...
How It Is - The Beckett Clodd Collection
by Máire Ní Chonalláin, Assistant Keeper II The Samuel Beckett Collection which belonged to the author’s London bookseller friend, Alan Clodd, has been catalogued. We were fortunate enough to...
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...
There once was a Welsh priest called Gerald
by Nikki Ralston, Exhibitions One of the pleasures of our collections is that they provide the opportunity to appreciate not only the differences between the past and our own times, but to recognise...
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