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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
by Andrea Bonnie, NLI Marketing Student Over the coming months, we’ll be introducing several major service improvements designed to make your NLI experience easier, more streamlined, and ultimately...
NLI unveils Lego model as major redevelopment work continues
Minister Catherine Martin opens two new public spaces at the National Library of Ireland
Searching for images of The Great Famine?
A Magnificent Pile! A brief architectural tour of the main library building
by Justin Furlong, Assistant Keeper, National Library of Ireland On August 29th, 1890, the present day National Library Ireland building was opened. Inspired by the suggestions of William Archer,...
How It Is - The Beckett Clodd Collection
by Máire Ní Chonalláin, Assistant Keeper II The Samuel Beckett Collection which belonged to the author’s London bookseller friend, Alan Clodd, has been catalogued. We were fortunate enough to...
Improving access to the Lawrence Collection
by Aoife O’Connell, Catalogue Development Student The National Library of Ireland holds a number of historically valuable and interesting photographic collections. Perhaps the best known and most...
Pettyfoggers and Vipers
by Sean Smith, Researcher at our "Palace to Procrastination" Lawyers and the legal profession, where would we be without them? If it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t have Dickens’ Bleak House and...
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