The Dictionary of Irish Biography (the DIB), published in nine volumes and online in 2009, is a work of truly historic significance. The model for all books of this kind, the old British Dictionary of National Biography (the DNB), appeared in instalments between 1885 and 1900 – and was not superseded until 2004, […]
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Brian Friel,
Cambridge University Press,
Charles Haughey,
Ernest Forbes,
Felix M. Larkin,
Freeman's Journal,
James McGuire,
James Quinn,
John McGahern,
Máire O'Neill,
Molly Allgood,
National Library of Ireland,
Oxford DNB,
Patrick Henchy,
Rosie Hackett,
Royal Irish Academy,
Shemus
by Felix M. Larkin, vice-chair of the NLI Society and member of the NLI’s statutory Readers Advisory Committee. His book Terror and Discord: The Shemus Cartoons in the Freeman’s Journal, 1920–1924 was published by A&A Farmar in 2009 In December 2006 the National Library of Ireland acquired some 250 original drawings of the Shemus cartoons […]
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Anglo-Irish Treaty,
Cartoons,
David Lloyd George,
Eamon de Valera,
Ernest Forbes,
Ernest Forbes Holgate,
Erskine Childers,
Felix M. Larkin,
Freeman's Journal,
Irish War of Independence,
Martin Fitzgerald,
Prints and Drawings,
R. Hamilton Edwards,
Shemus,
Shemus Cartoon Collection,
Shemus Cartoons,
Sir Edward Carson,
Sir Hamar Greenwood,
Sir James Craig,
Terror and Discord
Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian This is the third in a series of blogs connected to a joint project (Newspaper Descriptors Project) by the National Library of Ireland and the Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland (NPHFI). The project hopes to provide short descriptors or pen notes for the newspaper titles listed […]
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Charles Stewart Parnell,
Ernest Forbes,
Felix M. Larkin,
Freeman,
Freeman's Journal,
Irish Daily Independent,
Irish Independent,
Irish Parliamentary Party,
Justin Furlong,
National Press,
Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland,
Newspaper Descriptors Project,
Newspapers,
NPHFI,
Phil Blake,
Public Register,
Shemus,
Sir John Gray,
The Lepracaun,
Thomas Fitzpatrick,
Weekly Freeman,
Weekly Freeman & National Press
