Exhibitions

Sligo Dispute

March 8, 2013 · 4 comments

in Exhibitions,Guest Bloggers,Newspapers

We have a Dublin Lockout centenary exhibition coming up here at the National Library of Ireland this August, but many other protracted labour struggles took place in other parts of Ireland in 1913. In this blog post, author and historian Padraig Yeates looks at a dispute in Sligo between March and May of that year… […]

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There once was a Welsh priest called Gerald

November 29, 2012 · 2 comments

in Collections,Exhibitions

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 […]

Tagged as: 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

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Welcome to Your NLI

November 1, 2012 · 2 comments

in Collections,Exhibitions,Projects

by Nikki Ralston, Exhibitions Our new Front Hall display proudly says “Welcome to Your NLI”, not the NLI or our NLI but Yours. After all, as a public collection the National Library of Ireland does belong to all, it’s Ours. Perhaps you already had a sense of this public ownership, but had you thought about […]

Tagged as: Exhibitions, Gerald of Wales, Giraldus Cambrensis, Nikki Ralston, Projects, Topographia Hiberniae, Your NLI

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