Ephemera

We’ve been doing our hard sums

July 19, 2013 · 2 comments

in Cataloguing,Collections,Conservation,Digital Collections,Digitisation

by Jenny Doyle,  Digitisation Programme Co-ordinator 42,430 + 12,000 = 11% For those of you with Holmesian standard detection abilities, apologies for this update, as you have probably already noticed something different about the NLI’s catalogue. For those less eagle-eyed or less regular users of our collections, I’d like to draw your attention to a […]

Tagged as: 1798, Conservation, Digitisation, Douglas Hyde Photographs, Ephemera, Giraldus Cambrensis, Gordon Brewster Cartoons, Grace Gifford, Jenny Doyle, Longfield Maps, Sandymount Strand, Tuke Collection, William Wallace, Wiltshire Collection

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Postcards and public history

July 5, 2012 · 3 comments

in Collections,Ephemera,Guest Bloggers,Photographs,Research

by Chantal Sweeney, M.Phil. in Public History & Cultural Heritage at Trinity College Dublin Like many people, I spent the majority of last Christmas holidays lounging around in my pyjamas, watching old movies and eating too much food. I was giving my brain a much-needed break for the first time since embarking on my Masters […]

Tagged as: Achill Sound, Bray, Campanile, Chantal Sweeney, Copper plate, Elizabeth Kirwan, Ephemera, Grafton Street, Gweedore, Internship, Lawrence Collection, Lawrence Photographic Studio, Lawrence Postcard Series, Lawrence Postcards, M.Phil in Public History and Cultural Heritage, National Photographic Archive, NPA, Postcards, Robert French, Shop Street, TCD, Trinity College Dublin, William Lawrence

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The Course of True Love

February 14, 2012 · 3 comments

in Collections,Ephemera,Music,Prints & Drawings

Bean an Phoist says:  Honora has so many great collections to choose from that it would have been cruel and heartless to restrict her to just one item that she loves, so here are just some of her favourite LOVEly things for Valentine’s Day 2012…   by Honora Faul, Curator of Prints & Drawings, Ephemera, […]

Tagged as: 18th century, 19th century, Al Goodhart, Benjamin Rhames, Cartoons, Charles Stewart Parnell, Elizabeth Rivers, Ephemera, Frances Ashmore, Guardian Angels, Hamlet, Honora Faul, John D. Reigh, John Fergus O'Hea, John Morley, Johnny Doughboy found a Rose in Ireland, Kay Twomey, Lance Thackery, Leap Year, Matrimonial Map, Mrs Sparks, Music, Niall Murphy Collection, Postcards, Prints and Drawings, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Song Sheet, United Ireland, Valentine Card, Valentine's Day, Weekly Freeman, William Gladstone, William Shakespeare

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