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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....
Remembering 1916, Recording 2016 - The National Library Web Archive
Why is the National Library archiving key Irish websites? The web is a fluid and transformative place, and research indicates that up to 60% of URLS have been deleted or changed after just two...
The Spectrum Bursts: Seamus Heaney & the Visual Arts
Golden hands, troubled soul - the genius of Charles Altamont Doyle
by Giada Gelli, Collections Student Do you remember last year’s series of posts about the artistically talented Doyle family? We talked about John Doyle (the father) and his sons Richard, James and...
Prints and Drawings
“Ghosts” down the microscope! Image id’ing ain’t easy!
By Gabrielle Vergnoux, Conservation Intern, National Library of Ireland At first sight, an image of “Cork Harbour by Robert Lowe Stopford in 1862”, as is written on the verso, seems to do exactly...
Homemade manuscripts; a scholars’ binding
Digitisation
An Irish sheep tale - 700 year-old parchments conserved
by Élodie Lévêque, Project Conservator An extraordinary manuscript collection; the Ormond Collection has been called the ‘most important Anglo-Norman family archive in Ireland’. It...
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