by Audrey McGinley, NLI Conservation Intern At the start of my conservation internship I was involved with the return of a loan from the National Gallery of Ireland exhibition Jack of all Trades: Yeats’s Punch Cartoons and Illustrations by Irish Painters. This loan included 10 prints and drawings, and 6 bound volumes from our NLI […]
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Audrey McGinley,
Cartoons,
Conservation,
Conservation Intern,
Exhibitions,
Jack B. Yeats,
Jack of all Trades,
Mylar,
National Gallery of Ireland,
Punch
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 […]
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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
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 […]
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Exhibitions,
Gerald of Wales,
Giraldus Cambrensis,
Nikki Ralston,
Projects,
Topographia Hiberniae,
Your NLI
