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Suet, Snails and Stinking Roger
by Janelle Winters, Manuscript Intern While sifting through an old card catalogue as part of a grand scheme to augment our online sources, I stumbled onto some 19th century maps of rabies and...
The Press Photographers Association of Ireland Collection
by Jason Kearney, BA Photography student, DIT As part of our third year in college, we had the option to study the archive in context – a progression from an earlier module in which we studied the...
Some reflections on The Dead
by Felix M. Larkin, Vice-chair of the NLI Society and member of the NLI’s Readers Advisory Committee. His essay on 'Ulysses and the Freeman’s Journal' is included in the forthcoming volume of the...
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...
Remembering Paul Léon (1893-1942)
Celebrating The Commons on Flickr
Next Wednesday, 16 January, is the 5th anniversary of The Commons on Flickr. 56 libraries, archives, museums and galleries all over the world (including us) make up Flickr Commons. We all share our...
ReViewing Ireland: A Photo Study of Ireland’s Environment
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...
Seamus Heaney: The Man, the Myth, the Making of a Poet
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