June 2014

Preserving the Pearse Papers at the National Library

June 27, 2014 · 0 comments

in Conservation,Manuscripts

Only very cool conservators get to work on the conservation equivalent of CSI. Yes, it’s fun to wear white coats, flash the ultraviolet light around and talk abut acidity (for us, anyhow!), but the reality of preserving our paper heritage collections is somewhat more mundane. That is until we must deal with LOTS of mould. […]

Tagged as: Conservation, Heritage Council, Louise O'Connor, National Library of Ireland, Pearse Papers, Preservation, Projects, Tor Vergata University Rome, Valentina Giunta

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Witness of the Great War: Eugène Lemercier (1886-1915) by Marie Leoutre

June 5, 2014 · 1 comment

in Collections,Digital Collections,Manuscripts

  French painter Eugène Emmanuel Lemercier is not remembered primarily for his artistic work. Rather, his name evokes the vibrant correspondence he sent from the western front to his beloved mother in Paris, between August 1914 and his death in April 1915. This unique collection of wartime correspondence is preserved in the National Library of […]

Tagged as: Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Eugène Lemercier, Eugène-Augustin Lemercier, First World War, Harriet Osborne O'Hagan, Les Éparges, Marguerite Lemercier, Marie Leoutre, National Library of Ireland

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