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Legacy
Following his death in 1922, just two years after his retirement, 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 was known as "The Quaker Librarian" in Joyce's work, though Lyster was noted as being a member of the Church of Ireland, 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 and was put in place by the Friends of the National Library, an organization that his close friend WB 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 Jack B. Yeats hung within the library and the correspondences they have archived for private viewing in their records.

His wife, Jane Robinson Lyster, established a bequest in 1946 in his memory within his alma mater Trinity College Dublin. 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)