Political pamplets preserved for posterity

JAMES JOYCE is going back to the National Library today but not as we know him. This time the National Library does not have to pay €12.5 million for the writer’s manuscripts like they did last year.

The James Joyce making his way back to the National Library today is a Galway county councillor whose canvassing card is among the 1,500 memorabilia from the last local and European Parliament elections.

These records of the 1999 elections will be presented to the National Library by the General Council of County Councils (GCCC) at a reception this evening. They were prompted to collect the manifestos, canvassing cards and leaflets from the 1999 elections when they saw the vast amount of literature that was being produced.