All the amazing ornate public spaces in Ireland either ecclesiastical or from colonial era
Its inconceivable that secular Ireland could invest in making something like the NLI that could last through the ages, at best we get bland corporate mush pic.twitter.com/BApbKSJ9NN
— Ciaran Brennan (@CBBurkean) June 3, 2022
Fight!
Any excuse.
How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read…
…if they can’t even fit inside the building?
This morning.
Dublin 2.
Local schoolgirls were left stunned as The National Library of Ireland unveiled a large-scale LEGO model of its building on Kildare Street, built to coincide the coming phase of its ongoing redevelopment programme.
Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland
This morning.
National Library of ireland
Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Neil Jordan taking advantage of a 2m tax write-off donating his archive in the presence of Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan (above second right), Director of the National Library of Ireland, Dr Sandra Collins (second left) and Chairman of the National Library of Ireland Board, Paul Shovlin.
He brutally shot Michael Collins.
FIGHT!
Director Neil Jordan donates archive to National Library (RTÉ)
Sam Boal/RollingNews
National Library of Ireland tweetz:
Something to make you smile on a Friday – an old trading card for Clark’s Spool Cotton…..featuring a big elephant, as you do!
Behold! The Irish web! Arrived safe and sound from our friends @internetarchive. It will be winging it’s way to our reading room very soon! #staytuned #webarchiving #digipres pic.twitter.com/cdlqaBxjOO
— Nat Library Ireland (@NLIreland) April 4, 2018
Anyone?
This morning.
National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Director of the National Library of Ireland Dr Sandra Collins (top left) and Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphreys Tat the announcement of a major redevelopment of the NLI main building to “create storage and preservation conditions necessary to keep the National Collections safe for the long term”.
The project is expected to take four years to complete.
Sam Boal/Rollinngews.ie
Hush now.
A missing photo from yesterday’s 1916/2016 web archive awards ceremony at the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
The team behind the library and its extensive archive, which now includes your comments/analysis, our in-depth reports and Leather Jacket Guy.
Top from left: Maria Ryan (2016 Web Archivist), Ger Wilson, Dr Sandra Collins (NLI Director), Della Keating and Joanna Finegan.
And not a noisy man among them.
Shhh.
FIGHT!
Yesterday: Thank You Very Much
Thanks Orla Sweeney
It’s election 2016!
Maria Ryan, of the National Library of Ireland, writes:
We are currently running a competition which aims to engage with the general public.
“Remembering 1916, Recording 2016” is our largest project to date and we want to reflect the participatory nature of this year by asking the public to help us select sites for inclusion in the NLI Web Archive.
In short, we are looking for people to nominate websites which record the events of 1916 and websites which reflect life in Ireland in 2016.
We are asking you to nominate websites under the following two categories:
What website best remembers the events of 1916?
What website best records Irish life in 2016?
The shortlisted websites will be archived and made available for generations to come in the NLI’s web archive. We would love to hear what suggestions your readers may have.
Vote here
National Library of Ireland tweetz:
Here’s an infographic with main findings from 2013 annual review. We had over 250k visits last year, up 42% on 2012.
One fixie.
Three chaps.
An impossible (surely?) bike design from the Waterford Bicycle Club, circa 1897.
We’re calling it a trixie.
