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Legacy

Following his death Thomas William Lyster was remembered again in Oliver St John Gogarty's novel "As I Was Going Down Sackville Street". He was portrayed consistently in both this story and in James Joyce’s famed "Ulysses" as an enthusiastic and helpful character who was always called upon to help the people in the library. He is still known as "The Quaker Librarian" in Joyce's work, though Lyster was noted as being a member of the Church of Ireland,^[1] and is a benign and kind hearted figure in Joyce's tale. This trait is common between the two novels which indicate a passion for learning and spreading knowledge as a core virtue of his character.

A memorial plaque is still in place at the National Library where it describes him as being an enlightened book lover and one who was eager to help the library's visitors. This memorial was hung near the entry to the main reading room^[2] and was put in place by the Friends of the National Library, an organization that his close friend William Butler Yeats was a prominent member of. He and Yeats are reported to have been present at many library openings and events together, with Yeats being the one to compose the text of the plaque.

He is also still remembered through a portrait drawn by John Butler Yeats, father of W.B. Yeats, that is hung within the library and preserved in their archives.^[3]

His wife, Jane Robinson Lyster, established a bequest in 1946 in his memory within his alma mater Trinity College Dublin^[4]. This fund is one of the college's Moderatorship Prizes and is focused on the History discipline within the institution.

Works

1883: Heinrich Düntzer's Life of Goethe. London: Macmillan & Co. (translation)
1893: Select Poetry for Young Students; 2nd ed
1900: A series of volumes called English Poems for Young Students (editor)
1900: Observations on Shelf-classification. Chicago: H. Marshall & Son. (Author)
Intermediate School Anthology

References

^ Flood, Maura. "Behind the scenes in the National Library's Genealogy Room: Maura Flood". Irish Family History Centre. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
^ granitewordpress (2016-07-14). "Behind the scenes in the National Library's Genealogy Room: Maura Flood". Irish Family History Centre. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
^ Yeats, J.B (1859). "T.W. Lyster". NLI.ie. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
^ "Prizes and Other Awards" (PDF). tcd.ie. p. 246. Retrieved 12 November 2023.

[1] Flood, Maura. "Behind the scenes in the National Library's Genealogy Room: Maura Flood". Irish Family History Centre. Retrieved 12 November 2023.

[2] ranitewordpress (2016-07-14). "Behind the scenes in the National Library's Genealogy Room: Maura Flood". Irish Family History Centre. Retrieved 2023-11-26.

[3] Yeats, J.B (1859). "T.W. Lyster". NLI.ie. Retrieved 22 November 2023.

[4] "Prizes and Other Awards" (PDF). tcd.ie. p. 246. Retrieved 12 November 2023.

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