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NLI Digital Collections team at the Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DPASSH) Conference 2026
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Let's Get Political ... The NLI's Web Archive
by Maria Ryan, Web Archivist. This week marks six years since the National Library of Ireland (NLI) began collecting and archiving websites. It is also six years since the 2011 General Election and...
Access to Information on the Environment
Celebrate Culture Night 2025 at the NLI
5.2 million reasons to do a stock check
by Nora-Jane Thornton, National Photographic Archive When asked if I would like to relocate from our Manuscript Department to the National Photographic Archive in Meeting House Square in Temple Bar,...
Then & Now
Remembering 1916, Recording 2016: Let's talk about web archiving!
by Maria Ryan (2016 Web Archivist) Since our last blog, we have successfully completed four major crawls for our project “Remembering 1916, Recording 2016”. That’s almost 280 more websites for...
National Cultural Institutions (NCIs) unite to explore their collective social & economic impacts
The Right Honourable John Philpot Curran
by Eoin Lynch, Conservation Assistant While working on The Clean Sweep book cleaning project, an interesting book I found in the Joly Collection was The speeches of the Right Honourable John Philpot...
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 Irish in the American Civil War
by Gavin Finlay The American Civil War of 1861-65 is one of modern history’s most catastrophic conflicts. With approximately 750,000 fatalities and 400,000 wounded, it remains the deadliest war in...
Meet the Staff: John O’Sullivan
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