November 2011

Behind the scenes

November 23, 2011 · 0 comments

in Collections,Digital Collections,Digitisation,Oscail,Projects,Research

by Jenny Doyle, Oscail Programme Manager While the National Library holds wonderful collections of rare and antiquarian books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, prints and drawings (some of which you’ve read about on this very blog) one of our other jobs is to collect, preserve, promote and make accessible today’s and indeed tomorrow’s books, newspapers, manuscripts, etc. […]

Tagged as: 1918, 2011 General Election, Born-digital, Daguerreotypes, Dylan Haskins, Election posters, Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Collection, Jenny Doyle, Miss Coddington, Oscail, Oscail Programme, Oscail Programme Manager, Presidential Election, Sinn Féin, Twitpic, Twitter, Web Archiving

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Fairytale of New York?

November 18, 2011 · 2 comments

in Acquisitions,Collections,Printed books

by Justin Furlong, Acquisitions Librarian I recently returned from a visit to New York. One of the highlights of the trip was a tour of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum which tells the stories of immigrants who lived at 97 Orchard Street, a tenement built in 1863 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. 97 Orchard […]

Tagged as: 65 Mott Street, 97 Orchard Street, Acquisitions Librarian, Bridget Moore, Diaspora, Dublin Directories, Emigration, Florence Scovel Shinn, Griffin Collection, Irish-American, Joseph Moore, Justin Furlong, Louise Montgomery, New York, Stephen Griffin, Tenement Museum, Tenements, Thom's Almanac, Thom's Directories

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The Right Honourable John Philpot Curran

November 8, 2011 · 10 comments

in Collections,Conservation,Digital Collections,Printed books,Prints & Drawings,Projects

by Eoin Lynch, Conservation Assistant While working on The Clean Sweep book cleaning project, an interesting book I found in the Joly Collection was The speeches of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran, edited by Thomas Davis and published in London, 1847. John Philpot Curran (1750-1817) was an Irish MP and barrister who defended several […]

Tagged as: Barrister, Book cleaning, Catholic Defenders, Clean Sweep, Eoin Lynch, Gertrude Curran, John Philpot Curran, Joly Collection, Jury, Libel, MP, Northern Star, Oratory, Rev. Michael Sandys, Robert Emmet, Sam McTier, Sarah Curran, United Irishmen, Whig, William Carey, William Drennan

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