
11 May ‘Open the Archives’: Intro
#OpentheArchives at the National Print Museum
As part of her MA in Public History at University College Dublin, Katie Breen carefully selected and researched items from the Museum’s lesser-known archive.
“Being onsite at the National Print Museum for the last month has been such an incredible experience. While the museum had a fair idea about what was in their archive, combing through it and picking out what interested me, and being the first to research those pieces has been simply amazing. As a history student I chose to focus on the stories of the events and people in these pieces. In a living and working museum such as the National Print Museum, having an onsite archive filled with important newspapers and documents from the past is so important, and adds to the heritage of the museum which you can see and touch, just like the printing machines themselves!” – Katie Breen, MA, Public History, University College Dublin
Trade Unionism and the 1916 Easter Rising
Éamon de Valera is installed as third President of the Republic of Ireland at a ‘brief and simple ceremony’ at Dublin Castle on June 25....
Éamon de Valera, 1882-1975
Éamon de Valera is installed as third President of the Republic of Ireland at a ‘brief and simple ceremony’ at Dublin Castle on June 25....
Daniel O’Connell Centenary Commemoration Sheet, 1875
This commemoration sheet was printed by the Dublin Typographical Provident Society for the centenary celebration of Daniel O’Connell on the 6 August 1875....
‘Open the Archives’: Intro
Over the coming days we will be sharing some of the carefully selected pieces from our archive chosen by Katie Breen across our social media platforms....
“Needs Must” – The Second World War and Newspaper Rationing
To-day the “Evening Mail,” for the first time we believe in its history of 119 years, appears as a single sheet. “Needs must,” and no apology to our readers will mend matters or enlarge our ...
Ethel Rosenberg and the “Red Scare”
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?” … In the early 1950s when anti-Communist hysteria swept across the United States of America, thousands of Americans had to ...