by Abigail Rieley – Writer, Journalist, Court Reporter & NLI Reader The ghosts of the forgotten haunt the National Library of Ireland; those whose stories lie in out of print pages or hidden in the close-knit column inches of microfilmed newspapers. These are the stories lost in the past, forgotten by the public who once […]
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Cut-throat razor,
Daniel H. Webster,
Dismembered,
Dr. Creighton,
Emma Fawcett,
Faris,
Freeman's Journal,
French Street,
Galway,
George Orwell,
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Murder,
Newspapers,
Prendergast,
Queen Victoria,
Shotgun
by Nikki Ralston, Conservation Back in July 2011, I posted a short blog introducing The Clean Sweep, a preservation project aiming to clean and box our rare book collections. We have now started the final phase of the project, which will run to the end of 2011, and I thought that readers might be interested […]
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René Descartes,
Royal Dublin Society,
Tours,
Trustees' Room,
Watts Phillips
![](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7905/33499277288_a7f86b59d6.jpg ""Changing signal, Howth, Co. Dublin" is actually Broadstone")
![](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7904/47366596881_b004337987.jpg ""Head Office, Cable Station, Waterville, Co. Kerry" is really Valentia")
![](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7837/33340776618_01090cc8d1.jpg ""Wellington from F's room. Fishing"")