by Giada Gelli, Collections Student Ready for the third episode of the Doyle Family saga? In our previous posts we’ve touched briefly on the lives of John Doyle (HB) – about whom I found this interesting biography in Irish as well – and of his third son Richard (Dickie), the Punch Magazine and cheeky fairies […]
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Archbishop McGettigan,
Archbishop Murray,
Catherine Hogarth,
Charles Altamont Doyle,
Charles Dickens,
Director of National Gallery of Ireland,
Doyle Family,
Edmund Evans,
Gavazzi,
George Petrie,
Giada Gelli,
HB,
Henry Edmund Doyle,
Henry Grattan,
Ink Sketches,
James William Doyle,
John Doyle,
Kossuth,
NGI,
Official Baronage of England,
Richard Doyle,
St. Mary's Dominican Convent,
Thomas Carlyle
by Eimear Walsh, NLI Manuscript Student Still working away on the Headfort Estate Papers, we came across a family within a family. Incongruously in a collection about a family named Taylour, there kept cropping up material from the mid 19th century relating to members of a Tuite Dalton family. To puzzle us further, were the […]
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Adelaide Tuite Dalton,
Anglo-Celt,
Baron Lisgar,
Bengal Lancers,
Daltonganj,
Edward Tuite Dalton,
Eimear Walsh,
Gustavus Tuite Dalton,
Headfort Estate,
John Young,
Lady Lisgar,
Manuscripts,
Marquess of Headfort,
Olivia Stevenson,
Sir Francis Charles Fortescue Turville,
Taylour,
Tuite Dalton
by Janelle Winters, Manuscript Intern While sifting through an old card catalogue as part of a grand scheme to augment our online sources, I stumbled onto some 19th century maps of rabies and typhoid fever cases in Ireland. As a former infectious disease and burgeoning history of medicine graduate student, I was intrigued by these […]
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Archangel flower,
Cures,
Foxgloves,
Inchiquin Papers,
Jane Locke,
Janelle Winters,
King's Evil,
Lady Frances Keightley,
Manuscripts,
Mary Ponsonby,
Pilewort,
Rabies,
Receipts,
Remedies,
Scrofula,
Scurvy
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