National Library and entrance to the Dáil
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| Summary: | The Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991 was a project where one thousand photographs from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland were replicated a hundred years later by a team of volunteer photographers, thereby creating a record of the changing topography of the selected locations. |
| In collection: | The Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991 |
| Format: | Photo |
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[between 1990-1991].
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| Notes: | Weather conditions noted by photographer: fine Film number: 20A ; frame number: 16 1/1000 @F4, 1/1000 @ F16, 1/250 @ F16, 1/250 @ F8/11. Focal length 45 mm. ASA 200. Extra photograph taken from different angle to avoid trees - not part of 1000 photographs. Photograph taken at 10.30, 14 July, 1990 Additional information about this photograph may be available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/6213819096/in/photostream/ Physical description: 1 photograph Geographic Coverage: Dublin City, County Dublin, Province of Leinster, Ireland. more |
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Museum, Dublin [i.e National Library of Ireland] |
Thought that it was time to include a photo of us! This is the National Library of Ireland building on Kildare Street, Dublin. We first opened to the public on Friday, 29 August 1890.
The next day's Irish Times, recorded that the opening was "a very brilliant affair in every way. There was an enormous concourse of visitors, specially invited - a brilliant assemblage, in truth, of learning and beauty, and of personages of distinction in the social and official world of this country."
Date: Circa 1895
NLI Ref.: LROY 2501
Tags:
NLI, National Libraries, Library, Kildare Street, Dublin, Ireland, Robert French, Sir Thomas Newenham Deane, Sir Thomas Manley Deane, National Library, Leinster, 1890s, Glass Negative, Libraries, Libraries Across the Commons, William Lawrence, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, Thomas Newenham Deane
Comments
Wendy:
Apart from the Round room etc, the women's loo is well worth seeing!!!
www.flickr.com/photos/lizinitaly/6089049916/in/set-721576...
Posted: 05.10.2011
Swordscookie
You're looking well in spite of your great age!!! Keep up the good work.
Posted: 05.10.2011
Billy Quinn 1954
Are there any images of the entrance of the National College of Art and Design, which was entered through the gates to the National Library? I went there in the 70's.
Posted: 05.10.2011
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
@mutter_fluffer Not that I know of, sorry. That building is now part of the NLI complex - still with a very arty focus. That's where our Prints & Drawings collections and P&D Reading Room is, in addition to the Yeats exhibition and the NLI Seminar/Lecture Room...
Posted: 05.10.2011
XPAT-Polska
Magnificent - a great image of a superb builing.
Posted: 05.10.2011
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
@lizinitaly No problem! And you're not alone in admiring our "facilities" - there are regular outbursts of appreciation on Twitter under #LooWatch ... :)
Posted: 05.10.2011
tammybeck
awesome!
Posted: 05.10.2011
Sarah K Mc
My goodness, the state of the roads! :) Great "self portrait"!
Posted: 06.10.2011
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
@sarahkmc Thanks! Intrigued by the carriages... Wondering if they belonged to well-to-do readers, or had disgorged visitors to Leinster House next door?
Posted: 06.10.2011
Spidra Webster
Wow, you can see so much more of the building here. Very impressive.
Posted: 06.10.2011
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
@spidra Indeed. The view was much more open before the railings were erected between ourselves and Leinster House...
Posted: 06.10.2011
Carmen Cordero Olivares.
Precioso edificio.
Posted: 06.10.2011
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
@67513657@N05 ¡Gracias! Tengo la suerte de trabajar en un edificio tan hermoso ...
Posted: 06.10.2011
heady school
The National Library of Ireland, and the Museum opposite, were designed by the well known Cork architects, Sir Thomas Newenham Deane, and his son Sir Thomas Manly Deane.
Posted: 11.03.2012
fwpages
Isn't the embedded caption wrong, then-- it's the Library, not the Museum? Joyce makes a big deal out of Bloom racing for the security of the Museum after spotting Boylan somewhere on Kildare street, but I'm having trouble visualising this: is there a separate gate for the Museum in the outer fence to the right/south, or must Bloom have crossed Kildare straight on to the main gate, and _then_ veered right? ulyssespages.blogspot.com/2014/09/page-175-81173-1193-mak...
Posted: 04.10.2014
Niall McAuley
Yes, the caption is wrong, this was always the library.
And there is a small gate to the right at the Museum entrance, see here in Streetview
Posted: 04.10.2014
fwpages
Ahh... so if Bloom's back is (mostly) to Boylan, he must fear Boylan will call out? Or does he steal a backpeek just before he slips through that gate? My suspicion is that Joyce visualised exactly where BB was standing, and chose the wording to force us to deduce it, as a clue to some other mystery. (One possibility, eg-- BB was renting the piano that will soon appear in Bloom's livingroom.)
Posted: 04.10.2014
Niall McAuley
As can be see in this archive image of Leinster House, the empty urns on the gates (noted) were replaced with lights later.
Posted: 01.06.2018
