# National Library of Ireland
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Last year
2023
Decade of Centenaries
Government publishes programme of events for final year of Decade of Centenaries
24 Mar 2023
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Bullets, ballots and a flu pandemic: Life in Ireland was very turbulent 100 years ago
12 Sep 2018
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Michael Collins
'5,000 men needed to recreate Bloody Sunday 1920 - no jeans' - Neil Jordan donates archive to National Library
9 Aug 2018
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seeing things
Seamus Heaney letters, diaries and manuscripts on display to the public from tomorrow
5 Jul 2018
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National Refurb
Half a million books to be moved and €10m spent to preserve National Library collections
12 Jul 2017
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spruce up
Leinster House is crumbling, here's why they want to close it for the summer
28 May 2016
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love and friendship
Rare personal papers shed light on private lives of 1916 signatories
13 Feb 2016
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Eamonn Ceannt
1916 signatory tells wife she'll be a "widow before these lines reach you" in letters released online
13 Dec 2015
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National Library
It preserves our past, and visitors flock to it - so why is this essential resource underfunded?
10 Jan 2015
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a victorian christmas
You probably wouldn't want to hang these Victorian Christmas cards on your mantel
24 Dec 2014
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all the books
National Library at 'critical point' due to funding cuts putting collections at risk
4 Sep 2014
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GLIMPSE TO THE PAST
Photos from the 1970s tell the stories behind the people at Limerick's Milk Market
7 Aug 2014
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Hidden Ireland
The mysterious young doctor who captured Ireland in black and white
4 Aug 2014
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battling o'hallorans
Can you believe these Clare sisters were photographed 127 years ago?
19 Jun 2014
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Back in Time
Click to explore: 10,500 items have just been digitised by the National Library of Ireland
25 Apr 2014
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at the movies
Dublin used to have 56 different cinemas. Here are some of the lost ones.
15 Mar 2014
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set in stone
‘North’, ‘Norah’… possibly even ‘Leenwerrare’: Can you tell what’s written on this stone?
31 Aug 2013
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find this boy
Can you name this little boy smiling at JFK during his visit to Ireland in 1963?
27 May 2013
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on a mission
'Busiest boy in Dublin' finally identified... 44 years after photo
16 Jan 2013
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