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NLI’s free photographic exhibition featuring Dublin celebrates the age of analogue photography in Ireland
If ever you go to Dublin town
Wiltshire Collection Online by Orla Fitzpatrick, Irish photo historian October 1998 was a very exciting time to start working at the National Photographic Archive (NPA). The O'Donnell & Tuomey...
Postcards and public history
by Chantal Sweeney, M.Phil. in Public History & Cultural Heritage at Trinity College Dublin Like many people, I spent the majority of last Christmas holidays lounging around in my pyjamas,...
Travelling Banner Exhibition | Strangers to Citizens
Born Digital Archives
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Farewell, John L.
by Andrea Bonnie, NLI Marketing Student Today marks our colleague John L. O’Sullivan’s second bite of the retirement cherry. He retired from An Garda Siochána in 2001 after 30 years of service...
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...
Exhibition | Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats
The British and Colonial Druggist
by Inez J Fletcher, Cataloguer & Director of Irish ISSN Centre The British and Colonial Druggist, January 1889 to December 1892, in all its beautifully bound glory... It's on our shelves at call...
Science in the library: observing historic manuscripts, part 1
Post by Heraldic collection conservator Louise O’Connor All organic materials degrade. Historic manuscripts are handmade, unique artefacts combining parchment, paper, animal glues, pigments, inks,...
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