Can your students slow down the pull of gravity?

What a scoop!

In this post, Professor Javier del Barco tells us of an exciting find he has made in the Library… “Yesterday was a very good day in work. Titlepage of the book…

One of our favourite festivals

The Benjamin Iveagh Library was donated to Marsh’s Library by the Guinness family.

The beautiful interior of the library was photographed by Louise Daly and here are some of her photos! 

    Thanks to our good friend Matt Cashore at the University of Notre Dame for these photos.

Join us every day (excluding Tuesdays and Sundays) at 3pm for a tour of the library.

What has a 500-year-old squashed spider got in common with the ghost of a long dead Archbishop?

Z3.5.21 is a 16th-century commonplace book.

Who were our readers in the past? Where did they come from, and what did they read?

Around 1743, the library paid £20 for this dictionary which links Latin, English, and Irish (Gaelic).

Olga Taranova is a journalist and translator living in Dublin.

Dr Nicholas Hardy of Cambridge University explains what led him to Marsh’s, where he made some exciting findings during a recent research visit.

…is now a permanent fixture of the library!  

There is a book thief out to steal one of our books

1,185 books.  That is how many items went missing from Marsh’s Library

What kind of books went missing in Marsh’s Library?

Marsh’s Library wishes to recruit a number of part-time volunteers to help with tourist visitors. Applicants should enjoy meeting people, and be outgoing, enthusiastic and articulate. A second language would…