An Irish printer took first press west of the Mississippi River /

The diary of Adam and Eve Mark Twain :

Part I / Extracts from Adam's Diary [.] Monday This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way...Sunday Pulled through. This day is getting to be more 7 more trying.../

Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann Sráid Chill Dara Baile Átha Cliath 2 :

Handset in newly cast type Colum Cille 121 designed in the 1930s by Colm O Lochlainn and printed at The Wild Apple Press, 2005. /

The scholar and his cat

Irishman Mathew Carey: An early printer in America /

Against Printers

[Leaflet] Late hours on Easter Monday 1916:

When Dublin newspaper went dark /

Papermaking in Ireland :

An industry that disapeared after 300 years /

Ireland's first printed book, 1551:

'The Boke of The Common Praier' /

Triolet to Claire :

Eimhar O'Duffy wrote a short poem to Claire Hobson [wife of Bulmer Hobson] on the half-title page of a copy of his book, 'A Lay of the Liffey and Other Verses', on 4 July 1918, a book printed that year by Colm O'Lochlainn's Three Candles Press...

John Henry Cardinal Newman :

In celebration of his beatification in September 2010. The words are from his himily at University Church in Dublin, Sunday after Ascension, 1856. /

[Verse] I will rise and go now / to penny buns and tea / The clock's at half-eleven / and Dennan foams with glee. / So leave the weary Accessions-Books / and come along with me!

Crawford Neil, who loved writing light verse, was an attendant at the National Library of Ireland and an innocent casualty of the Rising. He was born 20 January 1887.

Zacchaeus & Bartimaeus :

two gentlemen from Jericho /