NEWS Number 19: Spring 2005

During his lifetime, Dr Jasper Robert Joly (1819-1892), a Dublin barrister and one- time Vicar General of the Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry, amassed a magnificent library, principally of Irish material, including rare books and pamphlets, maps, music, topographical prints and some important manuscripts. When he donated his library to the Royal Dublin Society in 1863, it was with the proviso that “if…a public library should be established in Dublin under the authority of Parliament…analogous to the library of the British Museum in London…it shall be lawful for the said Society to transfer the collection to the trustees of such public library.” Joly's collection of 25,000 volumes was transferred to the National Library of Ireland, when it was formally established in 1877. Among his books were first editions of many 17th century Irish authors, a number of incunabula, French works from the Napoleonic

Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann period and more than 700 volumes of sheet music. Today, the Prints and Drawings Department houses three quarters of the Library’s entire National Library of Ireland collection of Joly materials including 70,000 individual prints, several thousand albums and extensive holdings of drawings and watercolours. This work dated 1791, and entitled Arrestation du Roi et sa famille desertant du Royaume, is one of a large number of historical scenes, cartoons and caricatures relating

NUACHT to the French Revolution which were acquired with the Joly Library. The Library’s café, the Joly Tearoom, which opened in Kildare Street in June 2004, is named after this key benefactor. National Library Events Lunchtime theatre at the Library Celebrating James Joyce’s birthday

At lunchtime each Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (from week Wednesday 2 February 2005 marked the 123rd anniversary of the birth of James beginning 11 April to week ending 22 April) the Library’s Seminar Room will play Joyce and the anniversary of the first publication in 1922 of his masterpiece, host to a series of performances by the Dublin Lyric Players of WB Yeats’s plays Ulysses. – The Dreaming of the Bones and At the Hawk’s Well. On 2 February last, cultural attachés and other representatives from a number of The Dublin Lyric Players derives its name from the Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast, embassies in Ireland joined Library staff and other guests for a specially devised whose foundation stone was laid by the poet Austin Clarke. During the first thirty programme to celebrate these two anniversaries. years of their existence, the Belfast-based Lyric Players championed the cause of The programme for the evening included a reception followed by a multimedia Yeats’s plays, putting on many of his works including the Cuchulain Cycle, presentation entitled The Birthday Book: Publishing Ulysses, 2 February which they performed at the official opening of the purpose-built Poets’ Theatre in 1922, and a curator’s tour of the Joyce exhibition, guided by the Library’s James 1968. Joyce Research Fellow, Dr Luca Crispi. The Dublin Lyric Players’ forthcoming series of productions at the National Library’s Seminar Room will be directed by Conor O’Malley. Over the past 30 years, he has directed a number of plays by Yeats including the Cuchulain Cycle.

Pictured at the reception were from left: Dr Tony Scott, Chairman of the Trustees of the National Library of Ireland; Winni Fejne, Minister, Embassy of Sweden; Philomena Murnaghan, Counsellor, Cultural Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Dr Luca Crispi, James Joyce Research Fellow, National Library of Ireland.

Pictured at rehearsals for the forthcoming series are from left: Alan Carey, Anna O’Malley, Geraldine Maguire, Margaret Toomey and Conor O’Malley.

Ireland Literature Exchange

The Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, John O’Donoghue, TD was guest of honour at a reception held in the Library on 1 February last to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the foundation of the Ireland Literature Exchange.

Aongus Ó hAonghusa, Director, National Library of Ireland and Wolfgang Wiethoff, Counsellor for Politics and Cultural Affairs, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Photographed at the Ireland Literature Exchange Reception were John O’Donoghue, Ida Delamer, National Library of Ireland Trustee, and Peter Mikel, Embassy of TD, Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism; Sinéad Mac Aodha, Director, Ireland Austria, pictured at the James Joyce celebrations event in the Library. Literature Exchange and writer Anne Enright. Profile: Dr Tony Scott Chairman of the Council of Trustees of the National Library of Ireland 1994 to 2005

The National Library of Ireland owes a great debt to Dr Tony Scott for his immense The collections, both literary and visual, held by the Library trace the contribution during his tenure as Chairman of the Council of Trustees. For more development of Irish life in all its aspects, Dr Scott adds. “It could very easily than ten years, he has been a guiding force behind the Library and has overseen slip away from this country, but, thankfully, it is readily available to everybody many important developments, not least the progress of the biggest building – scholars and lay people alike. In an increasing number of cases, Library archive development of this institution since the opening of the Kildare Street building in material may be accessed online, which makes it available to many from right 1890, and an enormously successful acquisitions programme, the high point of around Ireland and abroad, and is a most welcome development. Of course, none which for him was the purchase of a large collection of previously unknown Joyce of this would have been possible without the active involvement of a committed material in 2002. staff. I have always been struck by the number of occasions on which members of the public have commented to me on the outstanding quality of the Library’s Three years after that event, the Library is about to enter a new era, with staff. They are just superb; unsung heroes, really.” significant changes in its corporate governance and administration ensuing from its establishment as an independent cultural institution. The present Council of Trustees will be replaced by a new board, details of which will be announced shortly by the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Mr John O’Donoghue, TD. Over a period of 16 years (first as a member of the Council of Trustees and later as its Chairman), Dr Scott has combined his deep commitment to the Library with a number of other voluntary and professional roles: lecturer in the Physics Department of University College Dublin; Head of Public Affairs, UCD – a post he held for 15 years; co-founder of the Young Scientist competition, for which, 41 years on, he still acts as a judge; he also serves on the panel of judges for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which is held in the United States each year. He is currently Honorary Treasurer of the Institute of Physics, an international learned society and professional body with over 37,000 members. More recently, he has joined the Board of the National Gallery. He has also been appointed Vice-President of the Royal Dublin Society, and is a member of its Council. Among a wide range of hobbies, he takes a keen interest in music, and he is a long-time supporter of the UCD soccer team, which he notes is now back in the Premier Division. With so many demands on his time, it is remarkable that he has consistently contributed so substantially to the Library’s governance and policy making. Part of the motivation for doing so may be attributed to his lifelong interest in reading and collecting books; his involvement in scientific publishing over many decades, and his keen appreciation of the way in which the Library has increased his awareness of Ireland’s cultural heritage. As he describes it: “It’s only when you get involved with the Library, and you see the storehouse of knowledge and material contained there, that you realise what a cultural background Ireland has. Not only has my involvement with the Library broadened my outlook it has also made me aware of the importance of what we hold, and the need to preserve it at all costs.” Edmund Dwyer Gray Album

One of the Library’s most recent acquisitions is an album of letters and newspaper husband’s death. They include letters from Parnell, Justin McCarthy, William cuttings about a largely forgotten figure in modern Irish history, Edmund Dwyer O’Brien, Timothy Harrington, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy and Lord Aberdeen. Gray, who was a Home Rule MP from 1877 to 1888 and the proprietor of Dublin’s In addition to the letters, the album has many pages of cuttings from Irish and Freeman’s Journal. British newspapers over the period 28 March to 7 April 1888. These refer to Gray’s But for the advent of Charles Stewart Parnell, Gray might have led the Irish party death and funeral, and contain extensive accounts of his career. Of special interest at Westminster. Initially opposed to Parnell, he reluctantly accepted his leadership are copies of memorial cartoons published in the Weekly Freeman and in after Parnell launched the weekly United Ireland newspaper in 1881. Gray’s fear United Ireland – in both cases on 7 April. that United Ireland would be turned into a daily paper to rival the Freeman’s Also included are cuttings about Gray’s term as Lord Mayor of Dublin – mostly Journal brought him into line behind Parnell. reports of social gatherings at the Mansion House – and a cutting from the Apart from the Freeman’s Journal – which prospered under his management Illustrated London News of 15 April 1854 relating to Mrs Gray’s mother, – Gray’s business interests included the nascent Telephone Company of Ireland Caroline Chisholm, together with a letter dated 17 August 1852 to Mrs Chisholm and the Belfast-based about her Family Colonisation Society. Morning News. A final item of note in the album is the certificate recording that Gray was awarded His political interests were urban rather than rural, which was unusual among Irish the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s silver medal for his part in rescuing the party MPs. He served as a member of Dublin Corporation from 1875 to 1883, was crew of a schooner wrecked during a storm in Killiney Bay in 1868, for which Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1880, and in 1884 was appointed to the Royal Commission exploit he also received the Tayleur Fund gold medal. Curiously, one of those on the Housing of the Working Class. who witnessed Gray’s heroic deed was his future wife; they did not yet know one another, but met soon afterwards and married in the following year. Often in poor health because of asthma and heavy drinking, Edmund Dwyer Gray died at the early age of 42 on 27 March 1888. Felix Larkin is Hon Treasurer of the National Library of The album, comprising approximately 200 pages, is particularly valuable because Ireland Society so little material is available on Gray. Trinity College Library holds a small collection of letters, and there are some relevant items in collections such as the Dillon papers (Trinity College, Dublin) and the Joseph Chamberlain papers (University of Birmingham); but nothing of any substance. The album appears to have been compiled by, or for, Gray’s widow, Caroline Agnes Gray, who was a daughter of the English philanthropist Caroline Chisholm, celebrated for her work for emigrants to Australia, but caricatured as Mrs Jellyby in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. The majority of items in the album are letters of condolence to Mrs Gray on her

Portrait of Edmund Dwyer Gray (1845-1888), from the Weekly Freeman, 7 April 1888.

Statue in O’Connell Street, Dublin of Sir John Gray, father of Edmund Dwyer Gray. In Joyce’s Dubliners, one of the characters in the story ‘Grace’ recalls Edmund Dwyer Gray ‘blathering away’ at the unveiling of his father’s statue, while another comments: ‘None of the Grays was any good’. , 7 April 1888. United Ireland Memorial cartoon published by

The famous emblem which appeared above the leading article in the Freeman’s Journal. It was adopted in 1891, three years after Edmund Dwyer Gray’s death. The sunburst behind the old Irish Parliament building in College Green, Dublin was an expression of the Freeman’s Home Rule aspirations.

Albam Edmund Dwyer Gray

Ceann de na nithe is déanaí atá faighte ag an Leabharlann ná albam le litreacha Is léir gurbh í baintreach Gray, Caroline Agnes Gray a chuir an t-albam le chéile nó agus le píosaí a gearradh as nuachtáin faoi dhuine nach bhfuil an oiread sin tráchta gur cuireadh le chéile di é, iníon í leis an daonchara Sasanach Caroline Chisholm, déanta air i stair nua-aimseartha na hÉireann, is é sin Edmund Dwyer Gray, a bhí a bhain cáil amach dá cuid oibre d’eisimircigh chuig an Astráil, ach a bhfuil ina MP de chuid Rialtais Dúchais idir 1877 agus 1888 agus a bhí ina úinéir ar scigphictiúr déanta di mar Mrs Jellyby i Bleak House le Charles Dickens. Freeman’s Journal Bhaile Átha Cliath. Litreacha comhbhróin chuig Mrs Gray tar éis dá fear céile bás a fháil den chuid is Murach gur tháinig Charles Stewart Parnell chun cinn, d’fhéadfadh sé gurb é mó atá san albam. Áirítear orthu litreacha ó Pharnell, Justin McCarthy, William Gray a bheadh i gceannas ar an bPáirtí Éireannach i Westminster. Bhí sé i gcoinne O’Brien, Timothy Harrington, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy agus ón Tiarna Aberdeen. Parnell ar dtús báire, ach de réir a chéile ghlac sé lena cheannaireacht tar éis do Chomh maith leis na litreacha, tá go leor leathanach de phíosaí Pharnell an nuachtán United Ireland a sheoladh in 1881. Ba é an imní a bhí ar ó nuachtáin na hÉireann agus na Breataine sa tréimhse 28 Márta go dtí 7 Aibreán Gray, go n-athródh United Ireland isteach ina pháipéar laethúil agus go mbeadh 1888 ann. Tagraíonn siad sin do bhás Gray agus dá shochraid agus tá cuntais sé in iomaíocht leis an Freeman’s Journal agus sin a mheall é chun tacaíocht a fhairsing ar a shaol iontu. Bheadh spéis speisialta i gcóipeanna de chartúin thabhairt do Pharnell. chuimheacháin a foilsíodh sa Weekly Freeman agus sa United Ireland Seachas an Freeman’s Journal – ar éirigh thar cionn leis faoina bhainistíocht -– an 7 Aibreán, sa dá chás. – áirítear ar leasanna gnó Gray an Telephone Company of Ireland nuaghinte agus Tá píosaí maidir le téarma Gray mar Ard-Mhéara ar Bhaile Átha Cliath san áireamh Morning News a bhí bunaithe i mBéal Feirste. freisin – tuairiscí den chuid is mó maidir le bailiúcháin shóisialta ag Teach an Ard- Bhí níos mó suime aige i bpolaitíocht uirbeach seachas tuaithe, rud a bhí Mhéara – agus píosa ón Illustrated London News an 15 Aibreán 1854 maidir neamhghnách i measc MPanna an Pháirtí Éireannaigh. Bhí sé mar chomhalta de le máthair Bhardas Bhaile Átha Cliath idir 1875 agus 1883, ina Ard-Mhéara ar Bhaile Átha Mrs Gray, Caroline Chisholm, in éineacht le litir dár dáta 17 Lúnasa 1852 chuig Cliath in 1880 agus ceapadh é chuig an gCoimisiún Ríoga ar Thithíocht an Lucht Mrs Chisholm maidir lena Cumann Family Colonisation Society. Oibre in 1884. Rud suntasach eile ba chóir aird a thabhairt ar san albam ná an teastas ag Bhí sé tinn go minic de bharr plúchadh agus de bharr go mbíodh sé ag ól go trom, tuairisciú gur bronnadh bonn airgid air ón Royal National Lifeboat Institution don agus bhásaigh Edmund Dwyer Gray agus gan é ach 42 bliain d’aois an 27 Márta pháirt a bhí aige ag tarrtháil criú ó scúnar a scriosadh le linn stoirme i gCuan Chill 1888. Iníon Léinín in 1868, agus fuair sé bonn óir ón Tayleur Fund don eachtra céanna. Aisteach go leor, duine de na daoine a chonaic crógacht Gray ná a bhean chéile ina Tá an t-albam, ina bhfuil thart ar 200 leathanach, fíorluachmhar de bharr a laghad dhiaidh sin; ní raibh aon aithne acu ar a chéile ag an am, ach bhuaileadar le cheile ábhair atá ar fáil maidir le Gray. Tá bailiúchán beag litreacha i Leabharlann go gairid ina dhiaidh sin agus phósadar an bhliain dar gcionn. Choláiste na Tríonóide, agus tá roinnt rudaí cuí i mbailiúcháin ar nós pháipéir Dillon (Coláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath) agus i bpáipéir Joseph Is é Felix Larkin Cisteoir Oinigh Chumann Leabharlann Náisiúnta Chamberlain (Ollscoil Birmingham); ach ní raibh aon ní substaintúil iontu. na hÉireann Independent Newspapers (Ireland) photographic collection

In November 2004, Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Limited donated its entire Sorting and cataloguing the collection will present quite a challenge to the staff photographic collection, comprising more of the Archive, but work has already begun on sorting and re-housing the glass than 300,000 images and covering an 84-year span, to the National Library of plate material. It is hoped to make some of the material from the 1920-1970 period Ireland. The material is of immense historical value. As well as providing a record of available to the public by the end of 2005. all aspects of 20th century Irish life, it will help to fill in gaps in the Library’s existing An exhibition to mark the donation, and to celebrate the centenary of the Irish collection of photographs, particularly in the areas of politics and sport Independent, will be held in Autumn 2005 at the National Photographic in Ireland. Archive. The collection, which contains glass plates, plastic negatives and a small number The National Library of Ireland is very grateful for the generous donation of a of prints, will be housed in the National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar, Dublin. collection that will become a rich resource for our readers.

President Bill Clinton’s visit to Derry, 1995 U2 concert at Croke Park, 26 June 1987 Bono and the Edge, 1987

Men and women lying on pavement guarded by soldiers, 1923 Dublin bombings, North Strand or North Circular Road, 1940 ‘Johnny Forty Coats’, PJ Marlow, 14 February 1943 Belfast riots, 1969 Stormont, 1969 Rev Ian Paisley, September 1969 Evacuation of British troops – buying from fruit sellers on the Dublin Docks, 1922

‘Johnny Forty Coats’, PJ Marlow, 14 February 1943 Cardinal MacRory visits Dundalk, 1930 Irish Hospital Sweepstakes winners, March 1933 Irish Hospital Sweepstakes staff dressed in hunting costumes with boxes for mixing, March 1933 Evacuation of British troops – buying from fruit sellers on the Dublin Docks, 1922 Children playing Red Cross during the Civil War, 1922 Tailteann Games, 1924

Irish Hospital Sweepstakes staff dressed in hunting costumes with boxes for mixing, March 1933 Custom House combatant, 1921 Bremen flight, Portmarnock, 1928 Donation of important collections of modern Irish prints and drawings

In recent months, the Library has acquired two important collections of modern Irish prints and drawings – 79 contemporary prints and 26 drawings by Brian Lalor, and a portfolio of 11 prints by Cor Klaasen. The Department of Prints and Drawings is very grateful to Mr Brian Lalor and Mrs Dónall O’Luanaigh, Keeper of Collections; Joanna Finegan, Assistant Keeper, Tineke Klaasen for their generosity in donating these collections to the National Department of Prints and Drawings, and Brian Lalor, artist, view a sample of Library. the works he has donated to the Library The Brian Lalor Collection The Brian Lalor works are a major addition to the modern collections of the Portfolio of prints by Cor Klaasen Department of Prints and Drawings. They were donated by the artist and author Printed in 2004 from original lino blocks by Tom Phelan, master printer, this Brian Lalor, who is also a committee member of the National Library of Ireland portfolio by artist, printmaker and designer Cor Klaasen comprises 11 prints in Society. a limited edition of 10, together with three extra trial prints (unique). He has written and illustrated many publications on architecture, travel and It was donated to the Library by the artist’s widow, topography, including guides to Ireland and Dublin city in particular; he is also Mrs Tineke Klaasen. general editor of the Encyclopedia of Ireland (2003). Cor Klaasen (1926-1989) was one of a small group of Dutch designers who As well as a printmaker, Brian Lalor has lectured on the history of Irish printmaking: came to live in Ireland in the 1950s: this very influential ‘Dutch School’ was this collection of his work covers a wide variety of print techniques including responsible for some of the etching, mezzotint, woodcut and linocut, chiefly focusing on topographical views of most innovative graphic design produced in Ireland during Dublin city and Dublin Bay, Cork city as well as topographical views of Jerusalem, this period. Rome and Istanbul. From his arrival in 1956, Klaasen worked extensively in advertising, publishing The works in this collection are also of great value to the Library as many were and, later, education, teaching at both NCAD and Dun Laoghaire College of Art Blue Guide to used in the artist’s publications including several editions of the and Design. The acquisition of this portfolio of his prints will be of interest Ireland The Laugh of Lost Men (A&C Black/WW Norton), (Mainstream), to anyone researching the history of Irish design, illustration, the book arts and The Irish Round Tower Drawings by Brian Lalor (Collins Press), ; printmaking, and also to those studying the economic and social development of poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Ninety Drawings (Gallery Press): Ireland from the Dublin Drawn and Quartered (Routledge & Keegan Paul), (O’Brien Press) 1950s onwards. and The Ultimate Dublin Guide (O’Brien Press). The donation of this important collection greatly expands the National Library’s holdings of modern Irish topographical art, book illustration and printmaking, ensuring that the Library holds a rich visual record reflecting and documenting Ireland from the 17th century to the present day. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Oscar Wilde (1854), the artist also donated a unique handmade book containing eight woodcuts which were originally used for the 1997 Duckworth illustrated edition of The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Woodcut, 1995. Woodcut, The Ballad of Reading Gaol. ‘I walked with other souls in pain’. Original illustration for 1997 illustrated Duckworth edition of Brian Lalor ‘Cork from Shandon Steeple’. Etching, 1980 National Library of Ireland Society Forthcoming exhibitions at the National The National Library of Ireland Society is a voluntary support group, which Photographic Archive aims “to assist and support the National Library in the maintenance and Streets broad and narrow, an exhibition of photographs of Dublin expansion of its services and the improvement and protection of its status as streetscapes – some vanished, others much altered – opens at the National the National Library of Ireland.” It arranges an annual programme of lectures Photographic Archive in Temple Bar on Monday 7 March. on topics of Irish interest in a variety of subject areas including history, The images, which were recorded between 1888 and 1890, are part of the literature and current affairs; it organises an annual outing to historic houses John’s Lane and Mullinahack album, which was created by James Talbot and other venues, and it provides an opportunity for interested persons to Power (of the John’s Lane Distillery family) for Spencer Harty, then Dublin support the Library at a crucial phase in its development. City Engineer. One of the highlights of the Society’s Autumn/Winter 2004 programme A particular focus of the images featured in the exhibition is the maze of back was a Joycean evening which took place in December. The programme for streets between Ormond Quay and Mary’s Lane, on the north side of the River James Joyce and the evening included a reception and a tour of the Liffey, and the streets situated between Thomas Street and Ushers Quay, on Ulysses at the National Library of Ireland exhibition, followed the south side of the river. These images offer an interesting contrast to the by a short lecture and selected readings. more commonly photographed fashionable areas of late 19th century Dublin. The Society’s Spring programme got off to a successful start on 23 February when Fergus Gillespie from the Office of the Chief Herald gave a lecture ‘Joyce at Lunchtime’ entitled The Sons of Milesius: the Irish and Spain in the Middle The National Library’s successful ‘Joyce at Lunchtime’ series of talks Ages. On 23 March Felix Larkin will deliver a lecture entitled Mrs Jellyby’s continues, offering visitors the opportunity to learn more about specific daughter: Caroline Agnes Gray (1848-1827) and the Freeman’s aspects of the life and works of James Joyce, using the resources of the Journal. The title of Breándán Ó Cathaoir’s lecture (25 May) is Charles James Joyce and Ulysses Hart: Young Irelander Abroad. Details of other upcoming lectures will at the National Library of Ireland exhibition. be posted on the Library website (www.nli.ie) in the coming weeks. Lectures For the March series, the focus is on the extraordinary friendship between begin at 7pm and take place in the Library’s new seminar room. James Joyce and his agent, confidante, friend and supporter throughout the The Society’s annual outing in June will be to Belfast. It will include a visit to 1930s, Paul Léon, who was instrumental in safeguarding many of Joyce’s Stormont and a tour of locations associated with the writer CS Lewis. literary papers after the Nazi occupation of Paris. Membership Rates In April, with a talk entitled Dark Times: Joyce’s Eyesight, visitors can hear more about the difficult personal conditions which Joyce overcame in Ordinary Membership �25 p.a. order to write both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. OAP Membership �15 p.a. Student Membership �10 p.a. The May series celebrates the remarkable women who Corporate Membership �1,000 p.a. shaped Joyce’s life and supported his art, and in June, as another Bloomsday (by invitation only) approaches, we examine some of the different critical approaches to Joyce, beginning with Stuart Gilbert’s James Joyce’s Ulysses. Contacting us The talks, which are given by National Library staff, take place every Tuesday For further information on the NLI Society, please contact: The Secretary, and Thursday of the month, at 1.10 pm. Admission is free and all are welcome. NLI Society, National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Email: [email protected] Address for correspondence; Sandra McDermott, Hon Secretary, National Library of Ireland Society, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Tel: 01-603 0227 Email: [email protected] Recent Library publications

IMPORTANT NOTICES IMPORTANT The National Library of Ireland’s Joyce Studies 2004 pamphlet series offers a general audience the opportunity to engage with a broad range of topics New Appointment in Joyce studies, with each of the essays written by a specialist in the field. The Council of Trustees of the National Library of Ireland Covering subjects as diverse as the humour of Ulysses, the complicated is pleased to announce the appointment of Aongus Ó publishing history of the novel, and James Joyce’s own voracious reading, hAonghusa as Director. the pamphlets offer a snapshot of themes that continue to engage readers and Mr Ó hAonghusa has been Acting Director of the Library scholars of James Joyce’s works over a hundred years after the day, 16 June since September 2003, following the retirement of Brendan O 1904, on which he set the action of his great work Ulysses. Donoghue who served as Director of the Library from 1997. The pamphlets, which cost �5 each, are available from the Library shop. Full Mr Ó hAonghusa joined the National Library in 2000 from details of all the titles in the series are available on our website, at http://www. the Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, nli.ie/new_publ.htm. where he was Assistant Principal. During his tenure there he held the post of Head of Internal Audit, and he was also involved in areas such as heritage policy and Gaeltacht/Irish language policy. He also served as Private Secretary to a number of Government ministers. He is a graduate of University College Galway, from which he holds a B.Sc. in Zoology, and he also holds a Masters in Public Administration from University College Dublin. Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann

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