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# National Library of Ireland

Last year
2023
Government publishes programme of events for final year of Decade of Centenaries
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Quiz: Look at these old photos of Dublin - what pub stands there today?
Bullets, ballots and a flu pandemic: Life in Ireland was very turbulent 100 years ago
'5,000 men needed to recreate Bloody Sunday 1920 - no jeans' - Neil Jordan donates archive to National Library
Seamus Heaney letters, diaries and manuscripts on display to the public from tomorrow
Half a million books to be moved and €10m spent to preserve National Library collections
Leinster House is crumbling, here's why they want to close it for the summer
10 million Irish parish records are now free to search online
Rare personal papers shed light on private lives of 1916 signatories
1916 signatory tells wife she'll be a "widow before these lines reach you" in letters released online
It preserves our past, and visitors flock to it - so why is this essential resource underfunded?
7 then-and-now archive photos of Dublin street scenes
You probably wouldn't want to hang these Victorian Christmas cards on your mantel
The secrets of Irish parishes will be online soon
Family legends, ghosts, and nuns: The real Irish lives of WWI
National Library at 'critical point' due to funding cuts putting collections at risk
Photos from the 1970s tell the stories behind the people at Limerick's Milk Market
The mysterious young doctor who captured Ireland in black and white
Can you believe these Clare sisters were photographed 127 years ago?
Read 90 letters James Joyce wrote to his family
Click to explore: 10,500 items have just been digitised by the National Library of Ireland
National Library evacuated after basement fire
Dublin used to have 56 different cinemas. Here are some of the lost ones.
Ye Olde Irish Pantomime Posters of the Day
Have You Ordered The Turkey Yet Pic of the Day
Man arrested in connection with book theft at National Library
National Library finds new display place - on Google exhibit hotspot
Pictorial record shows the Irish hard at work 100 years ago
Hidden History: The guide to preserving your family archive
‘North’, ‘Norah’… possibly even ‘Leenwerrare’: Can you tell what’s written on this stone?
PICTURES: 100 years ago, the Dublin Lockout began
Can you name this little boy smiling at JFK during his visit to Ireland in 1963?
Website aims to answer questions about our past
'Busiest boy in Dublin' finally identified... 44 years after photo
National Library releases documents from Roger Casement's incarceration
Photos: Inside the 'largest ship in the world' docked in Arklow in 1870
NLI hosts free lunchtime genealogy talks in August
National Library awarded for social media savvy
World War I history roadshow wants your family memorabilia
Slideshow: Irish World War I recruitment posters