1. Reaching out to your public: some initiatives from the National Library of Ireland

2. How we done it good at the National Library of Ireland

4. 25 Courses – 683 Registrations WB Yeats at the NLI Yeats and his Poetry Literature of Edwardian Ireland Reading at the NLI Dublin City of Literature Writing Rebellion Drama at the National Library Understanding 1916 The Irish War of Independence

5. As well as learning it was a really sociable experience The course provided a wonderful insight into the 1916 Rising (and events preceding and following it). It also provided an excellent opportunity to experience the many facilities and resources of the National Library. Stimulating and inspiring It makes accessible the works of Joyce, Beckett etc, - often, perhaps wrongly, seen as ‘difficult’

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