Emigration

Researching the Irish Famine

January 20, 2012 · 3 comments

in Learning & Outreach,Projects,Research

by Sarah O’Connor, Learning & Outreach Over the summer of 2011, the Learning and Outreach department here at the National Library worked on a new project about the Irish Famine with St. John of God Carmona Services. This is our fifth year working with some of the education and training programmes offered by Carmona Services […]

Tagged as: 1840, Adult Learning, Aoife O Connor, Autobiographies, Bríd O'Sullivan, Café Joly, Carmona Services, Choices, Dalkey Education Centre, Emigration, Eviction, Famine, Fiona Ross, Gruel, Improvisation, Irish Famine, Lakeland, Learning & Outreach, Limerick, Noel Kissane, Poor Law Commissioners, Poor Law Unions, Potato, Potato Blight, Primary Sources, Research, Ríona McMorrow, Sarah O'Connor, Social History, St. John of God, Tipperary, Travel Training, Victoriana, W.B. Yeats, Workhouses, Workshops

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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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