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Poetry Aloud
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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...
Tracing Thomas Kenny
by Sam McGrath, Cataloguer, Joseph Holloway Collection While cataloguing 19th century books, you can occasionally come across a little hand-written inscription that will make you pause for a moment...
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...
Welcome to Your NLI
by Nikki Ralston, Exhibitions Our new Front Hall display proudly says “Welcome to Your NLI”, not the NLI or our NLI but Yours. After all, as a public collection the National Library of Ireland...
Corporate Information
The NLI through a New Lens
Further Research
Further Research
The Seamus Heaney Literary Papers
by Frances Clarke, Archivist of the Seamus Heaney Literary Papers, 1963-2010 In November 2011 the National Library of Ireland acquired one of its most important donations for many years – the...
Newspaper Descriptors Project
Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian The National Library of Ireland in association with the Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland is pleased to launch its Newspaper...
Alice Stopford Green Navigates the Publishing Process
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