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by Nora-Jane Thornton, National Photographic Archive When asked if I would like to relocate from our Manuscript Department to the National Photographic Archive in Meeting House Square in Temple Bar,...
My name is Jean, and I am a Family History Workshopaholic
20 x 20 minute Family History Workshops in association with Eneclann at the National Library of Ireland, August 2012 by Jean Norton, Family Historian One of the surprise highlights of my summer came...
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... a one-armed entrepreneur, the defining of Irish photography, and how the Easter Rising stole a part of Irish photographic history! by Guy Phenix, Glasgow Based Stuff Maker In 1865 a young man...
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...
![Letter from Neal McMonagle, Morris Island [South Carolina], to his brother Cornelius McMonagle](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2025-12/vtls000941976_001_0.jpg?h=a55a8d34&itok=AgSdVLnG)
Welcome to our world
by Fiona Ross, Director of the NLI The National Library of Ireland was established in 1877 and the doors of our magnificent building on Kildare Street were first opened to the public 121 years ago...
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