by Nikki Ralston, Exhibitions One of the pleasures of our collections is that they provide the opportunity to appreciate not only the differences between the past and our own times, but to recognise something of ourselves in those who inhabited that past. Just when you least expect it you’ll come across a phrase or fact […]
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12th century,
A.B. Scott,
Book of Kells app,
Conquest of Ireland,
Exhibitions,
Expugnatio Hibernica,
F.X. Martin,
Gerald of Wales,
Gerallt Gymro,
Giraldus,
Giraldus Cambrensis,
Henry I,
Illuminated Manuscripts,
Kingship,
Manuscripts,
Maurice Fitzgerald,
Nest,
Nikki Ralston,
Normans,
R.R. Davies,
Topographia Hiberniae,
Topography of Ireland,
William de Barri,
Your NLI
by Katy Milligan, NLI habitué and PhD student at TRIARC (The Irish Art Research Centre, TCD) Lurking among the shelves of the NLI is a group of texts which has lately caught my attention. While I intially began looking at guidebooks to Dublin to supplement my current PhD research (which looks at depictions of Dublin […]
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Advertising,
Carlisle Bridge,
Dignam's Dublin Guide,
Empire,
Great Industrial Exhibition,
Guide Books,
Hand Book for Dublin and its Environs,
Home Rule,
Illustrated Bits,
Irish Industrial Exhibition,
Jackeen,
James Dignam,
James Fraser,
Katy Milligan,
Maps,
Nelson's Pillar
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 the interminable case of Jarndyce v Jarndyce. We wouldn’t have the on-going, lengthy and costly tribunals and we wouldn’t have the colourful carnival […]
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Attorneys,
Bar Club,
Barristers,
Benchers,
Four Courts,
Grand Day,
Henrietta Street,
Inns of Court,
Inns Quay,
Irish Bar,
James Gandon,
John Philpot Curran,
King's Inns,
Lawyers,
Open University,
Richard Edgeworth,
Sean Smith,
Society of the King's Inns,
Townsend Street
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