Hands on History: a multi-layered learning experience. Engaging post-primary students with NLI collections - Maeve Casserly (National Library of Ireland)
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The document outlines the activities in a two-day "Hands on History" program at the National Library of Ireland. Day 1 activities included a history tour, newspaper workshop, WWI exhibition visit, photography workshop, introduction to the library catalogue, and exercise analyzing an election pamphlet. Participants also visited the reading room and learned how to access historical newspapers and other resources. Day 2 activities included analyzing an election handbill and campaign speeches by De Valera and Obama. Feedback praised learning about the library's resources and different historical sources, though one participant noted limitations as an Android user.
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Hands on History: a multi-layered learning experience. Engaging post-primary students with NLI collections - Maeve Casserly (National Library of Ireland)
- 1. Hands on History: a multi-layered learning experience Maeve Casserly, Outreach National Library of Ireland @NLIreland
- 3. Day 1: Engaging with NLI collections • History and Heritage mini-tour • Newspaper Captions Workshop • Visit to WWI exhibition and Yeats • Photographs workshop • Catalogue Intro + how to get a Reader’s Ticket • DeValera pamphlet exercise • Working with History & Visit to Reading Room
- 4. Newspapers @ the NLI • NLI has 1000s of newspapers • Collection includes titles from mid-seventeenth century onwards. • Irish titles are the main focus. • Available in hard copy, and/or microfilm and/or digital. • Consult newspaper database. Some of the Newspaper titles in the collection
- 5. Election Handbill 1917 What is the message of this document? Is it effective?
- 7. Campaign Speech Analysis De Valera Speech: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=qf8TWsC-aE0 Obama Speech: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=bSLQSDFVK-8 Which was better? Why?
- 10. Feedback Day 1 Good to see about the different sources and how to use the catalogue. Enjoyable. Learned more about NLI which I knew little about it. Today will help me in the years to come due to the resources shown today and how to use them.
- 11. Feedback Day 2 The things like the comic and the radio are things I’ve never done before. But as an android user I can’t get most of the apps
- 12. Hands on History: a multi-layered learning experience Maeve Casserly, Outreach National Library of Ireland @NLIreland
Editor's Notes
- The National Library inherited newspapers from the Joly Collection of the Royal Dublin Society. Dr. Robert Jasper Joly donated his library to the RDS in 1863, with the proviso that it be transferred to a National Library if established. In 1922 after the foundation of the Irish Free State, the Chief Secretary’s office in Dublin Castle handed over its collection of newspapers from the NLI. Dublin Castle was the seat of the British administration in Ireland and the chief secretary would have been concerned with matters of security and defence. They would have used the newspapers of the day for surveillance purposes; to find out about nationalist and republican societies, events and movements e.g. if people like Tom Clarke made a speech somewhere the newspapers would record it. Since 1927 Library has legal deposit status for newspapers, which means we get a copy of every newspaper published in Ireland