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NLI marks acquisition of the Fr Bernárd Lynch Collection
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...
The ingenious Mr. Edgeworth
by Áine Finegan, former Research and Reference Team Student As the City of Science for 2012, Dublin is playing host to all things scientific this year and here at the National Library we're...
IN PRAISE OF THE DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY by Felix M. Larkin
The Dictionary of Irish Biography (the DIB), published in nine volumes and online in 2009, is a work of truly historic significance. The model for all books of this kind, the old British...
Minister Catherine Martin opens two new public spaces at the National Library of Ireland
Books
The National Library of Ireland’s printed books collection consists of around one million items.
NLI announces 2022 acquisitions
William Vincent Wallace Bicentenary
by Dr Una Hunt, pianist, broadcaster and Irish music specialist William Vincent Wallace Born Waterford, Ireland 1812; died Chateau de Bagen, France 1865 The bicentenary of a neglected and...
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,...
Secrets in the fibres: Mezzotint Prints and Dublin Paper Trade in the 18th Century
Dr. Neassa Doherty (Volunteer NLI Prints & Drawings Dept., 2012 & PhD Graduate, NUIG, 2015) & Louise O’Connor (NLI Conservation Dept.) In 1742, the Dublin engraver and printseller,...
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