Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
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Marsh's Library
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Gutenberg's Cradle" is a book about the gorgeous books in our collection published in the decades after the invention of printing. It has been nominated for the prestigious ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography. You can buy a copy of this beautiful book here: marshlibrary.ie/product/gute...
The latest round of our Maddock Research Fellowships has just been advertised. Come and work in our exciting research collection: marshlibrary.ie/about/news-e...
Oh no, Rupert Giles (aka the actor Anthony Head), everyone's favourite school librarian, has passed away. We were only talking at lunch yesterday about how Giles was the best TV representation of a librarian ever. RIP, Anthony Head.
No more Rivals until November?! We'll just have to occupy ourselves with medieval romance until then! From Le rommant de la rose, 1526.
The best kind of book owner: Edward Lightbourne left not only his lovely signature, but also the year he bought this collection of John Milton's pamphlets, and the cost.
Before anyone gets too enraged it is an anonymous satire related to the 17th century 'Querelle des femmes' a debate on the capabilities of women and their role in society.
Hmm, this might be a bit controversial: 'The purgatory of modern men', from 1619. As for that subtitle ...
Armadillos & their cherub tormentors on a map of central and west coast Mexico, from Blaeu's Atlas Major, vol 10, 1662-5.
Good luck to everyone starting their leaving cert today! A little bit of addition to warm the brain, from 'Records Arithmetick', a manual to teach simple & practical maths.
Gutenberg’s Cradle is a beautifully illustrated book about the 75 texts in Marsh's Library that were published across Europe in the half-century after the invention of printing with moveable type. A ...
