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From Guillaume Lorris Le Rommant de la Rose (Paris, 1526?).
From Thomas Moore Lalla Rookh and Irish Melodies (London, 1817).
From Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village (London, 1927).
Robert Burns (1759-1796).
Mrs Siddons as Isabella.
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The list of actors in a programme for Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey at the Abbey Theatre (1926).
From Aesop's Fables (Roüen, 1670).
From Cervantes Don Quixote (London, 1742).
From Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe (London, 1790).
2003 Exhibition
This exhibition finished in June 2004. The items described here are no longer on public display in the Library. Information about current Library exhibitions is available on our events page.
The Fountain of Genius
An Exhibition of Poems, Plays and Prose in Marsh's Library
The exhibition was opened in the Library by Mr John O'Donoghue, T.D., Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, on 4th September 2003, and was open to the public until June 2004. The following is the short description of the exhibition that was published at the time.
This exhibition represents different aspects of literature - poetry, drama and fiction - and on display are the works of the finest of European writers, including Shakespeare and Chaucer; Moliere and Rabelais; Petrarch and Boccaccio; Goldsmith, Sheridan, and Tom Moore. There are the signatures of the famous writers who used Marsh's Library - including Jonathan Swift, Bram Stoker and James Joyce.
One section, entitled The Scandalous Profession, contains 17th-century books condemning the theatre as horrid, blasphemous, immoral and profane.
Also in the exhibition are copies of plays performed at the Smock Alley Theatre, and a printed sheet concerning riots there in 1747. Included too is an Abbey Theatre programme from 1926 of O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock which featured the actors Barry Fitzgerald, Eileen Crowe, F.J. McCormack and Ria Mooney.
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