By Professor Richard Sharpe Many things await discovery in the National Library. This was an unusual find, however, a copy of one of the best-known poems in the language printed in a form to...
by Sean Smith, Researcher at our "Palace to Procrastination" Lawyers and the legal profession, where would we be without them? If it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t have Dickens’ Bleak House and...
by Aoife O Connor, co-curator of Particles of the Past exhibition In deciding what to put into our Discover: Particles of the Past exhibition for Dublin City of Science 2012, Robert Boyle was top of...
by Elodie Leveque & Louise O'Connor, Conservation Conservators love knowing how a book was put together, and recently, we had the opportunity to examine a very interesting item. Despite being in...
by Inez J Fletcher, Cataloguer & Director of Irish ISSN Centre The British and Colonial Druggist, January 1889 to December 1892, in all its beautifully bound glory... It's on our shelves at call...
by Nikki Ralston, Conservation Back in July 2011, I posted a short blog introducing The Clean Sweep, a preservation project aiming to clean and box our rare book collections. We have now started the...
by Giada Gelli, Preservation Assistant We have all done some scribbling on copies, books, magazines and whatnot at some stage in our lives. There is nothing more pleasant than evading the realms of...
by Fiona Noonan, Preservation Assistant We are all drawn to books for different reasons - Stories, Authors, Illustrations and Bindings. So, when those of us working on The Clean Sweep Project were...
by Nikki Ralston, Conservation Regular visitors may have wondered about what's been going on in our Trustees' Room in recent weeks - that's the room to the left of our main hall. Comings, goings and...
