Advent Calendar 2025

For this year’s Advent Calendar, we hope you enjoy this selection of archival fashion from […]

Advent 2024: 20 December

Today’s images features a Christmas cover of The Garda Review from 1931

Advent 2024: 8 December

Today’s images features a Christmas cover of The Garda Review from 1932

Advent Calendar 2024

For this year’s Advent Calendar, we hope you enjoy this selection of festive findings from […]

Advent 2023: 16 December

Today’s images from our collections and their corresponding image available on UL library databases

Advent 2023: 14 December

Todays image is of our ScanTent, which allows researchers to quickly take digital images for private use

Advent 2023: 12 December

Images of the digitisation lab, of our cameras and of the digitisation process in the lab’s book scanner

Advent 2023: 9 December

Sketches of the construction of the Ardnacrusha Power Station and a repurposed turbine in UL from the station

Advent 2023: 8 December

Today’s images are of brochures from the Dance United Northern Ireland Collection from the National Dance Archive of Ireland

Connecting cartographic collections through place and time

New interactive online resource highlights a corpus of nine maps from the collection, collectively known as ‘The Looney Map’ of Tipperary

The Diary of a Country Gentleman

Guest post by MA student Nathan Durand on the diary of Henry William Massy (1816–1895)

Advent 2021: 20 December

The book cover for ‘On and Irish Jaunting Car’ from the McAnally Collection (1902)