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Guide Books to the Second City in the Empire

November 22, 2012 · 0 comments

in Collections,Guest Bloggers,Research

by Katy Milligan, NLI habitué and PhD student at TRIARC (The Irish Art Research Centre, TCD) Lurking among the shelves of the NLI is a group of texts which has lately caught my attention. While I intially began looking at guidebooks to Dublin to supplement my current PhD research (which looks at depictions of Dublin […]

Tagged as: Advertising, Carlisle Bridge, Dignam's Dublin Guide, Empire, Great Industrial Exhibition, Guide Books, Hand Book for Dublin and its Environs, Home Rule, Illustrated Bits, Irish Industrial Exhibition, Jackeen, James Dignam, James Fraser, Katy Milligan, Maps, Nelson's Pillar

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Improving access to the Lawrence Collection

April 5, 2012 · 6 comments

in Cataloguing,Collections,Digitisation,Maps,Photographs,Projects

by Aoife O’Connell, Catalogue Development Student The National Library of Ireland holds a number of historically valuable and interesting photographic collections. Perhaps the best known and most utilised of these over the years since its acquisition has been the Lawrence Collection. It was acquired in 1943 for the then huge sum of £300. The popularity […]

Tagged as: Aoife O'Connell, Catalogue, Catalogue Development, Data Cleaning, Digital Images, flickr, Flickr API, Flickr Commons, Freebase, Glass Plate Negatives, Google Refine, Information Systems, Lawrence Cabinet, Lawrence Collection, Lawrence Day Book, Lawrence Imperial, Lawrence New Series, Lawrence Photographic Studio, Lawrence Royal, Library Management System, Lutz Biedinger, Map View, Mapping, Maps, Open Source, Photographs, Robert French, Topographical Views, Virtua, William Lawrence

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