Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian The National Library of Ireland in association with the Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland is pleased to launch its Newspaper Descriptors Project. This project hopes to provide short descriptors or pen notes for the newspaper titles listed in the National Library’s Newspaper Database. The descriptors will […]
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Broadsheet,
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh,
Chief News Editor,
Circulation,
Eamon de Valera,
Editors,
Erskine Childers,
Evening Herald,
Evening Mail,
Evening Press,
Fianna Fáil,
Independent Newspapers,
Irish Press,
Irish Press Corporation,
Irish Press Group,
Irish Press Limited,
Irish Press Newspapers,
Irish Times,
Journalists,
Justin Furlong,
Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland,
Newspaper Database,
Newspaper Descriptors Project,
Newspapers,
Ralph Ingersoll,
Ray Burke,
RTÉ News,
Sean Lemass,
Sunday Press,
Vivion de Valera
by FELIX M. LARKIN, Vice-chair of the NLI Society and member of the NLI’s Readers Advisory Committee When I was at school in St Paul’s College, Raheny, the imp in me was always amused by the fact that the old house in the grounds of the school – where the Vincentian priests who ran the […]
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4th Baron Plunket,
Anti-partition,
Benjamin Plunket,
Bishop of Meath,
Bishop of Tuam Killala and Achonry,
Church of Ireland,
Dictionary of Irish Biography,
Divorce,
Dublin Corporation,
Felix M. Larkin,
Irish Times,
JFK,
John F. Kennedy,
Kildare Place,
Raheny,
Royal Accession Declaration,
Senate,
Sinn Féin,
St. Anne's Clontarf,
St. Paul's College,
Sybil Hill,
W.B. Yeats
by Abigail Rieley, Writer & NLI Reader For me, former Taoiseach Charlie Haughey will always be inextricably linked to the rattling of microfilm readers. I was sitting at one in the Reading Room in 1992 when he made his resignation speech, listening to the reaction from Leinster House next door on the headphones of my […]
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Abigail Rieley,
Charles Haughey,
Irish Times,
Journalism,
Leinster House,
Michael Stamp,
Microfilm,
National Museum,
Newspapers,
Putti,
Reading Room
