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NLI's free photographic exhibition featuring Kerry celebrates the age of analogue photography in Ireland
Looking after your Family Archives - prevention is better than cure...
by Louise O'Connor, Conservation For most of us, paper is an everyday, throw-away thing. We may hang on to concert tickets, or precious letters, some old photographs or important family certificates....
NLI’s free photographic exhibition featuring Donegal celebrates the age of analogue photography in Ireland
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,...
Borrow a Banner Exhibition
National Library photographic exhibition documents LGBTI+ life and activism in Ireland
Working in the Archive on the Fergus Bourke Collection
by Grace Hall, photography student at DIT I have just completed my third year as a student of photography at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT). The course includes not only the practice of...
Alice Stopford Green Navigates the Publishing Process
It’s not all just books and letters: The Art Ó Bríain Papers at the National Library
By Oliver O'Hanlon, PhD Student Department of French and School of History, University College Cork. You never know what you might come across while researching in the Manuscripts Department of the...
A lesson on the limits of the Internet
by Michael Seery, NLI reader / chemistry lecturer / local historian extraordinaire The problem with the Internet is that it’s really, just, very good. With a few keywords, I can easily compile...
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