‘I found this valuable book fast falling in pieces…’
Irish language annotations appear on an item produced in exile
Collection snapshot: West Clare Brigade Papers
Watch this short video introduction to the collection, aired during Clare Library History Week 2023
Photographs of the 1927 wedding of Lisalie Armstrong and Lieutenant Odo Russell
Photographs of the 1927 Wedding of Lisalie Armstrong and Lieutenant Odo Russell
The O’Mara Papers Exhibition
New exhibition on the O’Mara family of Limerick at the Glucksman Library
Histories, bindings, knocks and markings
How can we use the term ‘unique’ when several copies exist?
O’Mara correspondence: a perspective on Michael Collins’ death, 1922
A letter from Stephen O’Mara of Strand House, to his son following the shocking and untimely death of Michael Collins in August 1922
New online mini-exhibition for Heritage Week 2023: Set and step dancing in the NDAI
New exhibition of video clips of Irish set dancing workshops, from the Joe and Siobhán O’Donovan Collection in the NDAI.
Documenting the successes of the horse ‘Knight of Troy’
The Knight of Troy was a special and esteemed horse from the Moyaliffe Stud, Tipperary in the 1930s
Fashionable marriage: A list of wedding gifts from the 1920s
This inventory of gifts given to Lisalie Armstrong and Odo Russel on their wedding day provide glimpses of social class, gender, and high society life in Ireland during the 1920s.
The breeches Bible
Binding, Bucknalls and breeches
The Scrapbook of Winifred Barrington, 1912 – 1915
The scrapbook of Winifred Barrington, compiled between the years 1912 and 1915 is full of vibrant images, drawings and poems.
Odellville’s Valuation for Transfer 1918
This typescript valuation from December 1918, offers a remarkable insight into the various items that were stored at Odellville, Ballingarry, Co. Limerick.
