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Dancing Angels and Devilish Microfilm
by Abigail Rieley, Writer & NLI Reader For me, former Taoiseach Charlie Haughey will always be inextricably linked to the rattling of microfilm readers. I was sitting at one in the Reading Room...
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...
The Right Honourable John Philpot Curran
by Eoin Lynch, Conservation Assistant While working on The Clean Sweep book cleaning project, an interesting book I found in the Joly Collection was The speeches of the Right Honourable John Philpot...
Do not try this at home
by Aoife O Connor, co-curator of Particles of the Past exhibition In deciding what to put into our Discover: Particles of the Past exhibition for Dublin City of Science 2012, Robert Boyle was top of...
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...
Simone Téry, the Human Question Mark in Ireland
by Oliver O'Hanlon, PhD student, University College Cork Simone Téry travelled to Ireland at a seminal moment in the birth of modern Ireland. My research involves analysing newspaper articles...
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,...
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,...
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....
Family Fragments from the First World War
History as the Sum of Our Stories by Avice-Claire McGovern, Librarian The digital age has caused a shift in our collective remembrance practices. No longer solely the province of professional...
Yeats in Love, Joyce Skateboards and Dreamboat Laureate
by Annie West, Illustrator Annie recently donated a selection of her prints to our Prints & Drawings Collection Yeats in Love Looking at my work, you’d probably expect to hear I’m busy...
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