Giraldus Cambrensis

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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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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