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These billiard-playing monkeys outside our Department of Manuscripts reveal the building's antecedents as a club for gentlemen - The Kildare Street Club. Thanks to Mary Mulvihill of Ingenious Ireland for this photo.

The Kildare Street Club and the Easter Rising

by Avice-Claire McGovern, Librarian Eyewitness accounts from Tuesday, 9th May 1916 On Easter Monday, 24th April 1916, Alfred West was attending the Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse, when he heard...
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"... snow was general all over Ireland." It certainly was in the photograph taken on 10 December 1870 in the grounds of Clonbrock House, Ahascragh, Galway.

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...
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The Campanile at Trinity College Dublin, long before the M.Phil in Public History and Cultural Heritage was a twinkle in anyone's eye. (Lawrence Postcard Series)

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,...
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The reality of life on the Lake Isle of Innisfree. By Annie West.

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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Celebrating the Commons on Flickr, Part Deux

This is our second blog post celebrating the 5th anniversary of The Commons on Flickr which falls tomorrow, Wednesday 16 January. This means a 5th Birthday for the Library of Congress photostream....

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