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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...
General Election 2011 Web Archiving
by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student & Maria O’Shea, Manuscript Student Here at the National Library we try to collect as much as we can that might not otherwise be collected and...
Digitisation
Accessibility
James Joyce Zurich Foundation Letters Digitised by National Library
By Ray Burke, Chief News Editor RTÉ News A first-hand account by James Joyce of his unsuccessful attempts to avoid publicity when he married Nora Barnacle in London in 1931 is among the most...
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...
The Course of True Love
Bean an Phoist says: Honora has so many great collections to choose from that it would have been cruel and heartless to restrict her to just one item that she loves, so here are just some of her...
National Library photographic exhibition documents LGBTI+ life and activism in Ireland
Reading Rooms
Reading Rooms
The Shemus Cartoon Collection
by Felix M. Larkin, vice-chair of the NLI Society and member of the NLI’s statutory Readers Advisory Committee. His book Terror and Discord: The Shemus Cartoons in the Freeman’s Journal,...
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