Only very cool conservators get to work on the conservation equivalent of CSI. Yes, it’s fun to wear white coats, flash the ultraviolet light around and talk abut acidity (for us, anyhow!), but the reality of preserving our paper heritage collections is somewhat more mundane. That is until we must deal with LOTS of mould. […]
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Conservation,
Heritage Council,
Louise O'Connor,
National Library of Ireland,
Pearse Papers,
Preservation,
Projects,
Tor Vergata University Rome,
Valentina Giunta
French painter Eugène Emmanuel Lemercier is not remembered primarily for his artistic work. Rather, his name evokes the vibrant correspondence he sent from the western front to his beloved mother in Paris, between August 1914 and his death in April 1915. This unique collection of wartime correspondence is preserved in the National Library of […]
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Ecole des Beaux-Arts,
Eugène Lemercier,
Eugène-Augustin Lemercier,
First World War,
Harriet Osborne O'Hagan,
Les Éparges,
Marguerite Lemercier,
Marie Leoutre,
National Library of Ireland
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the old British Dictionary of National Biography (the DNB), appeared in instalments between 1885 and 1900 – and was not superseded until 2004, […]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