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# national-library-of-ireland - Wednesday 12 September, 2018
Bullets, ballots and a flu pandemic: Life in Ireland was very turbulent 100 years ago
The National Library of Ireland has launched its latest exhibition, which will run until May 2019.
# national-library-of-ireland - Thursday 9 August, 2018
'5,000 men needed to recreate Bloody Sunday 1920 - no jeans' - Neil Jordan donates archive to National Library
The archive will be digitised and put on display.
# national-library-of-ireland - Thursday 5 July, 2018
Seamus Heaney letters, diaries and manuscripts on display to the public from tomorrow
Tickets are free – but booking is advised for the next few days due to high demand.
# national-library-of-ireland - Wednesday 12 July, 2017
Half a million books to be moved and €10m spent to preserve National Library collections
Current storage conditions put some collections at fire risk.
# national-library-of-ireland - Saturday 28 May, 2016
Leinster House is crumbling, here's why they want to close it for the summer
Leinster House is to undergo its most significant restoration work to date.
# national-library-of-ireland - Wednesday 2 March, 2016
10 million Irish parish records are now free to search online
The documents show the impact the Great Famine had on Ireland’s population.
# national-library-of-ireland - Saturday 13 February, 2016
Rare personal papers shed light on private lives of 1916 signatories
The Seán MacDiarmada and Thomas MacDonagh collections are the latest tranche of Easter Rising-related documents to have been digitised by the National Library.
# national-library-of-ireland - Sunday 13 December, 2015
1916 signatory tells wife she'll be a "widow before these lines reach you" in letters released online
The letters Éamonn Ceannt wrote to his wife show a very loving side to his character, describing her as his “sweetheart of the hawthorn hedges”.
# national-library-of-ireland - Saturday 10 January, 2015
It preserves our past, and visitors flock to it - so why is this essential resource underfunded?
Its acting director says cutbacks have affected the library badly.
# national-library-of-ireland - Saturday 3 January, 2015
7 then-and-now archive photos of Dublin street scenes
From 1875 to the present day.
# national-library-of-ireland - Wednesday 24 December, 2014
You probably wouldn't want to hang these Victorian Christmas cards on your mantel
Three words: Talking Christmas oysters.
# national-library-of-ireland - Monday 1 December, 2014
The secrets of Irish parishes will be online soon
Parish registers will be digitised by the National Library of Ireland.
# national-library-of-ireland - Saturday 22 November, 2014
Family legends, ghosts, and nuns: The real Irish lives of WWI
Meet Jack Leslie, aged 97.
# national-library-of-ireland - Thursday 4 September, 2014
National Library at 'critical point' due to funding cuts putting collections at risk
Visitor numbers to the NLI are up 42% on last year.
# national-library-of-ireland - Thursday 7 August, 2014
Photos from the 1970s tell the stories behind the people at Limerick's Milk Market
The photographs are of merchants, traders, children and characters of Limerick’s historic quarter between 1971 and 1978.
# national-library-of-ireland - Monday 4 August, 2014
The mysterious young doctor who captured Ireland in black and white
John J Clarke loved taking photographs of the world around him – and luckily for us, 200 of his photos have been digitised.
# national-library-of-ireland - Thursday 19 June, 2014
Can you believe these Clare sisters were photographed 127 years ago?
The O’Halloran girls fought off an attempted eviction from their home in Bodyke.
# national-library-of-ireland - Monday 16 June, 2014
Read 90 letters James Joyce wrote to his family
Spoiler: Lots of the letters were about Finnegan’s Wake. And they weren’t all in English. Classic Joyce.
# national-library-of-ireland - Friday 25 April, 2014
Click to explore: 10,500 items have just been digitised by the National Library of Ireland
Come with us on a journey through time and space…
# national-library-of-ireland - Tuesday 1 April, 2014
National Library evacuated after basement fire
But all is ok now and no collections were damaged.
# national-library-of-ireland - Saturday 15 March, 2014
Dublin used to have 56 different cinemas. Here are some of the lost ones.
Practically every little suburb had its own cinema. Is yours still there?
# national-library-of-ireland - Saturday 21 December, 2013
Ye Olde Irish Pantomime Posters of the Day
Snowhite and the Seven Corkmen, anyone?
# national-library-of-ireland - Monday 9 December, 2013
# national-library-of-ireland - Thursday 21 November, 2013
Man arrested in connection with book theft at National Library
A large number of books and pamphlets, some of which are of historical value, were discovered at a house in Clonsilla.
# national-library-of-ireland - Friday 1 November, 2013
National Library finds new display place - on Google exhibit hotspot
The NLI has become first Irish group to feature on Google Cultural Institute, bringing their archive to world attention.
# national-library-of-ireland - Saturday 26 October, 2013
Pictorial record shows the Irish hard at work 100 years ago
Working Lives exhibition at the NLI exposes the conditions in which men, women and children toiled to survive.
# national-library-of-ireland - Saturday 19 October, 2013
Hidden History: The guide to preserving your family archive
These top tips from National Library of Ireland’s conservation expert could help you hold onto family memories for longer.
# national-library-of-ireland - Saturday 31 August, 2013
‘North’, ‘Norah’… possibly even ‘Leenwerrare’: Can you tell what’s written on this stone?
National Library of Ireland researchers have been trying to identify the inscription, but they’ve hit a wall…
# national-library-of-ireland - Tuesday 20 August, 2013
PICTURES: 100 years ago, the Dublin Lockout began
The Dublin Lockout exhibition opens at No. 2 Kildare Street tomorrow afternoon.
# national-library-of-ireland - Monday 27 May, 2013
Can you name this little boy smiling at JFK during his visit to Ireland in 1963?
The National Library of Ireland is trying to identify the boy for an upcoming JFK Homecoming exhibition.
# national-library-of-ireland - Tuesday 26 March, 2013
Website aims to answer questions about our past
The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht will launch www.irishgenealogy.ie later today.
# national-library-of-ireland - Wednesday 16 January, 2013
# national-library-of-ireland - Friday 21 December, 2012
National Library releases documents from Roger Casement's incarceration
Materials include portraits, documents relating to the degradation of his knighthood and touching letters to his family in the final days before his execution.
# national-library-of-ireland - Sunday 25 November, 2012
Photos: Inside the 'largest ship in the world' docked in Arklow in 1870
The SS Great Eastern was the largest ship ever built when it launched in 1858 – and here’s what the saloons inside it looked like when it docked in Arklow in 1870.
# national-library-of-ireland - Monday 13 August, 2012
NLI hosts free lunchtime genealogy talks in August
The National Library of Ireland will host a series of free lunchtime talks this month.
# national-library-of-ireland - Friday 27 April, 2012
National Library awarded for social media savvy
Fáilte Ireland gets overall prize in eGovernment awards for their Discover Ireland online campaign.
# national-library-of-ireland - Tuesday 20 March, 2012
World War I history roadshow wants your family memorabilia
Call for public to find old documents, photographs etc. relating to ‘The Great War’ – they will be scanned and recorded on a pan-European website.
Slideshow: Irish World War I recruitment posters
National Library of Ireland’s archive shows the emotional, moral and practical pressure put on Irish men to join the ranks in the ‘Great War’.
# national-library-of-ireland - Sunday 1 January, 2012
Archives show human tragedy and truth behind Titanic sinking
National Library of Ireland resources give Irish perspective on shipping disaster which has its centenary in April this year.
# national-library-of-ireland - Saturday 24 December, 2011
Drunken robins, oysters and sailors: 24 cards of Christmas past
Some of these cards collected by the National Library are over a century old – but show that even the Victorians could be gaudy and bawdy in their festive celebrations.
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FARMERS ARE CURRENTLY staging a protest outside a major Aldi distribution centre in Naas, Co Kildare.
Organised by the Irish Farmers’ Association, the protest began at 7am and is expected to last all day.
Farmers are blocking exits and entrances at the site. IFA President Joe Healy said farmers are sick of “being short-changed” by meat factories and retailers.
The action comes after a taskforce was agreed by beef farmers and representatives of the beef processing sector in October, following weeks of protests.
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