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I, Earnán de Blaghd...

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Tue, 21 May 2013 01:09:06 -0700

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Would imagine that more recent Ministers for Finance would certainly envy Earnán de Blaghd (Ernest Blythe) the power to issue a proclamation like this one.

Can any of you help us fill in some detail on the background to this broadside?

Date: Saturday, 14 November 1931

Size: 44 x 35 cm

NLI Ref.: EPH E157

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Launch of Century Ireland

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Mon, 13 May 2013 05:05:46 -0700

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At the recent (7 May 2013) launch of a new project Century Ireland.

Left to Right
Katherine McSharry, Head of Services, National Library of Ireland
Jimmy Deenihan, TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Fiona Ross, Director of the National Library of Ireland

Century Ireland is an online historical newspaper that tells the story of the events of Irish life a century ago, and is published on a fortnightly basis. Check out the first issue and/or follow the project on Twitter @CenturyIRL

Date: Tuesday, 7 May 2013

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Launch of Century Ireland

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Mon, 13 May 2013 05:01:28 -0700

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A new project, Century Ireland, was launched on Tuesday, 7 May 2013. It's an online historical newspaper that tells the story of the events of Irish life a century ago, and is published on a fortnightly basis. It will appear every two weeks from now until 2022.

Century Ireland is produced by a team of researchers at Boston College Ireland, is funded by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, and is hosted by RTÉ.

It will illustrate the events of 1913 and onwards with material from cultural institutions, including a substantial amount of material from the National Library of Ireland.

Check out the first issue and/or follow the project on Twitter @CenturyIRL

Centre 3 left to right
Mike Cronin, Academic Director, Boston College-Ireland
Jimmy Deenihan, TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Noel Curran, Director-General of RTÉ

Date: Tuesday, 7 May 2013

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Martial Law

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:33:36 -0700

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Proclamation issued on Wednesday, 26 April 1916, by Major-General L. B. Friend (Commander of Troops in Ireland) , ordering a state of martial law in Dublin City and County, including Curfew from 7.30 p.m. to 5.30 a.m.

By Friday, 28 April 1916, Friend had been replaced by General Sir John Maxwell, hastily despatched from England to take over command of British Troops in Ireland.

This item was purchased by The Friends of the National Collections of Ireland and was generously donated to the National Library of Ireland in 2007.

Size: 71 x 50 cm

Date: Wednesday, 26 April 1916

NLI Ref.: EPH F338 (A1 size)

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Dublin as it Stood in the Year 1610...

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:34:25 -0700

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... by engraver James Malton, and published in London by Malton for his History of Dublin, July 1792.

Date: July 1792

Size: Etching, 47.5 x 27.2 cm on sheet 56.5 x 41.4 x 56.5 cm

NLI Ref.: PD 3181 TX 29

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No Mourning to be worn that day.

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:57:19 -0700

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Notice published in the Dublin Gazette laying out the ground rules for a celebration (Ode, Ball, Supper) of George IV's birthday at Dublin Castle on Monday, 23 April 1821.

Date: Tuesday, 17 April 1821

NLI Ref.: Dublin Gazette

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Two Faces of a Winding Clock

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 03:15:52 -0700

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Join Barry Kennerk, author of Moore Street: The story of Dublin’s Market District for a discussion on Dublin Markets on Wednesday 17 April at 7pm.

This event is part of Dublin: One City One Book, and this April the book being celebrated is James Plunkett's fantastic Strumpet City.

Date: Wednesday, 17 April 2013 at 7pm

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Pantheon Phusitechnikon

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 06:12:21 -0700

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Phantastic structure just up the way from us on the corner of Kildare Street at St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. The engraver was Thomas Badge, c. 1782-c.1841.

The excellent National Gallery of Ireland website tells us that in "1798, William Binns, an ironmonger, rebuilt what is now 25 and 26 St. Stephen's Green as a house with a toy and fancy goods shop, at the back of which, in Kildare Street, he erected a tower with 'gazebo' on top. The business ceased in 1816, when the stock and contents of the shop were auctioned. The whole premises, known as the Pantheon Phusitechnikon was later demolished."

According to my trusty copy of Kevin and Emer Rockett's Magic Lantern, Panorama and Moving Picture Shows in Ireland, 1786-1909, the viewing gazebo offered a panoramic view of Dublin, but was removed in 1821.

Size: 24.5 x 22.2 cm

Date: Circa 1808

NLI Ref.: PD 588 TA

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Lough Derg by Paul Henry

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 05:22:36 -0700

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From our collection of travel posters - Lough Derg by Irish artist Paul Henry (1876-1958). This poster was no. 63 in the London Midland & Scottish Railway series entitled "The Best Way"...

Size: 102 x 64 cm

Printed by McCorquodale, London

Date: 1949

NLI Ref.: EPH G3

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Madame Fanny Waxman and her Yiddish Repertory Company

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:45:39 -0700

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From our collection of theatrical ephemera comes this fantastic Abbey Theatre poster advertising Fanny Waxman's repertory company's week of performances from Sunday 15 to Sunday 22 June, 1924. As you would expect they did not perform on Friday...

Date: June 1924

NLI Ref.: ABBEY/1920-30/10

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Maud Gonne and W.B. Yeats go a-visiting

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 06:07:31 -0700

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Maud Gonne and W.B. Yeats visit Cuala Press together on Sunday, 18 October 1908.

We've digitised the Cuala Press (run by the Yeats sisters) visitors' book, 1908-1928, and you can see each page in glorious detail using our Mega Zoomifier image viewer...

Signatures and addresses include those of W.B. Yeats and Maud Gonne, Jack B. Yeats, Sarah Purser, Elizabeth Bowen, Lady Augusta Gregory, George Russell, Thomas MacDonagh, Constance de Markievicz, Eva Gore-Booth, Florence Farr, Isabel, Lady Aberdeen, Mainie Jellet, Susan Mitchell, George Bernard Shaw and many hundreds of important cultural figures from Ireland, England, America and further afield...

Date: Sunday, 18 October 1908

NLI Ref.: MS 42,140

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Balbriggan Weavers' Society

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:54:57 -0700

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From the handwriting, it looks as if this membership card (no. 100) belonged to a gentleman called Batt Law.

Any information about this Society or any other Irish Weaver Society activity very welcome...

Size: 10.3 x 6.7 cm

Date: Circa 1800?

NLI Ref.: EPH A27

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DNA - A brick wall buster?

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:32:09 -0700

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Dr Maurice Gleeson delivered a lecture (20/03/13) at the NLI on the different types of DNA tests and how they can be applied to help family tree research.

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Bloomsday Survival Kit

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:34:35 -0700

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See the world through Joyce's spectacles
The Bloomsday Survival Kit, a Ulysses travelling reading group who are travelling around Dublin reading Ulysses "in location" visited the library recently and delighted the audience with a reading fromChapter 9 of Ulysses, Scylla and Charybdis.

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Best and Safest Remedy?

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:24:59 -0700

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Advertisement for Erson's Glycerine Cough Mixture, the pharmaceutical brain child of William Ledger Erson who operated as a pharmacist or druggist from 39 Henry Street, Dublin.

Wonder if it was as effective as Mr Erson made out?

I posted this advert on our NLI Facebook page some time ago, and got fantastic information from Celestine Rafferty about the Erson family:
"William Ledger Erson, b. St Michael's parish, Limerick, 30 October 1827, son of Paul Erson, merchant, and wife Anne. Had at least two brothers, George Robert, b. 24 Nov. 1829 and Charles, b. 9 Apr, 1836. Possibly other siblings.

Listed in 1862 as 'dentist, chemist, druggist' at 39 Henry Street, Dublin, with a residence at Mount Vernon, Dollymount. William married a widow, Bessie Martha Avery, née Close, daughter of Edward Close, a clerk in Holy Orders, in St Peter's parish, Dublin, 26th January 1850. William's brother, George Robert was one of the witnesses. They had at least two sons: Paul Close Erson, born December 1850 who died in November 1854, and William Robert Close, born 29 March 1857. He may be the William Robert Erson, physician and surgeon, living in Yorkshire in 1881. In 1899 Dr William Robert sailed, with 2 other doctors, on board the "Cintra" to Australia. He settled in a mining town in Western Australia and died there in 1904. Buried in Coolgardie Cemetery. ... William's mother's name was Ledger, hence his middle name. Oh, and they lived at Abbey Lodge, Askeaton. ... I found another son, Edward George Ledger Erson, b. 1852. Another doctor. Was tried in Australia c 1912/13 for being part of a scam to defraud a Maternity Benefits scheme. Died 1922."

MKSeery also did some investigating and found out that "the other part of the building at 39 Henry Street was occupied by J.M. O'Callaghan, "Fancy Baker". So you rotted your teeth on the cakes and then went into old William for the dental work and digestion aids."

This item features in our Particles of the Past exhibition, a part of Dublin City of Science, 2012.

Date: Circa 1862

NLI Ref.: Trade cards/1

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Smash Hits

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:35:06 -0700

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1932 Cumann na nGaedheal election poster that references popular culture in the form of records, implying that the chorus of all Fianna Fáil "songs" is the threat of war.

This poster can be seen in action in a photograph in our Poole Collection, taken on Thursday, 11 February 1932.

Size: 76 x 50.8 cm

Date: February 1932

Printed by: Temple Press, Temple Bar, Dublin

Published by: Cumann na nGaedheal, 5 Parnell Square, Dublin

NLI Ref.: EPH F37 (A1 Size)

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Happy St. Patrick's Day/Weekend!

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 05:27:33 -0700

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These are our opening hours for this St. Patrick's Weekend.

Our exhibitions are open each day. Even if you're far, far away, you can virtually visit some of our exhibitions from wherever you are in the world...

Nannycam, 1889 stylee

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:25:25 -0700

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Dr. Krugener's fantastic Patent Book Camera in an advert/advertorial from The British and Colonial Druggist. Carefully checking the shelves in Library Towers to see if we've any of these...

Date: 1889

NLI Ref.: 1K 2182

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Launch of Century Ireland

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Mon, 13 May 2013 05:11:57 -0700

National Library of Ireland posted a photo:

A new project, Century Ireland, was launched on Tuesday, 7 May 2013. It's an online historical newspaper that tells the story of the events of Irish life a century ago, and is published on a fortnightly basis.

Left to Right
Katherine McSharry, Head of Services, National Library of Ireland
Jimmy Deenihan, TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Catriona Crowe, Head of Special Projects at the National Archives of Ireland
Fiona Ross, Director of the National Library of Ireland

Century Ireland will illustrate the events of 1913 and onwards with material from cultural institutions, including a substantial amount of material from the National Library of Ireland.

Check out the first issue and/or follow the project on Twitter @CenturyIRL

Date: Tuesday, 7 May 2013

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Athlone in 1685

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:15:45 -0700

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Very picturesque print of the "town bridge" in Athlone from "Philip's Ordnance Maps, made for Charles II and now amongst the Ormonde Papers in Kilkenny Castle".

Date: Circa 1850

Size: Lithograph 18.5 x 11.3 cm (on sheet 25.6 x 16.1 cm)

Published by: Forster & Co., Dublin

NLI Ref.: ET 1752 TA

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