Wheels, Winds and War- Correspondence of Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Posted by Natasha (Special Collections Cataloguer) April 29, 2010 at 15:30
It is always fascinating to get a glimpse of history through the collections held at the RDS library, and this week I have been cataloguing a small collection of correspondence to and from Richard Lovell Edgeworth.
From the RDS Library to Stardom
Posted by Nadia (Assistant Librarian) April 20, 2010 at 16:30
Some of you certainly remember our former colleague Fergal Rock. Fergal is the “nice chap” who worked in the RDS Library for nearly 5 years, first at the library desk and then upstairs at the Horse Show Archives and later at the FitzGerald Correspondence Project...
What is in our little black book?
Posted by Senan (Assistant Librarian) April 09, 2010 at 16:30
Yesterday I was cataloguing the last trolley of journals from our Irish Journal collection. I had already begun typing a blog post to inform everyone about the latest part of our collection to be re-catalogued, but then I made a discovery! In the middle of a run of the James Joyce Broadsheet I found a black notebook and when I opened the notebook on the first page was written “Valuation of the Library of the Royal Dublin Society”.
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