Joel W. Herman has been awarded the A. C. Elias, Jr., Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship for 2021

Engineers Week is always one of our favourite times of the year

Explore this gorgeous exhibition of rare maps

The Library will remain closed while Level 5 restrictions are in place

We have three activities for children/students to try!

Our intern Sarah Lengers describes what she discovered about women visitors to Marsh’s

Dr Nora Moroney’s work on our Benjamin Iveagh collection was highlighted

We’re happy to announce that we have gained the Fáilte Ireland Safety Charter

Take our personality quiz and find out which character you are from the library’s history!

As the new Assistant Librarian at Marsh’s I will be working on the records for the Stillingfleet Collection

If you missed our social media Escape Room challenge

Congratulations to Dr. Nora Moroney who has been awarded a two-year post-doctoral fellowship to study our Benjamin Iveagh Library at Farmleigh House in the Phoenix Park.

Congratulations to Dr Tina Morin of the University of Limerick on her recently-announced Irish Research Council award.

Another puzzle for you to do! Try our Imperial Map of China!            

a new digital version of our very popular doodles exhibition

Explore Joyce’s reading in Marsh’s Library, which he visited in 1902.

A peaceful puzzle to do at home!

A selection of books on China

Explore Bram Stoker’s reading in this digital exhibition.

These books exist in only one copy in the world: ours.

We are very proud of our Hebrew and Yiddish books…

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

These beautiful bookbindings are a testament to one man’s labour of love

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

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

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

So can you explain the science behind this magical effect?  This is a nice activity for younger children to have a bit of water play. Here in Marsh’s we are well aware of what would happen to the books and particularly the paper inside them if they were to get wet.  In fact every year […]

Round and round volvelles, cogs and cams go!  During Engineers Week we have a cam station, which was inspired by the rotary movement of a volvelle found in one of Narcissus Marsh’s astronomy books (see image on the left). A cam makes the same circular motion, but as a result can create a linear movement […]

Click on the crossword and yearsearch images to download a copy for printing. Try to find the answers using the internet or use the fact files below to find the answers!

In 2017, we exhibited books and manuscripts that had been stolen from the library.  ‘Sorry!?’ Do you say?  How could we display missing items? Well, some had merely a page or two missing, cruelly sliced out!  Most of the books however had been re-purchased or found and returned.  This saw the beginning of our book […]

Marsh’s Library has seen many famous faces over its 300 year history. 

Marsh’s Library has a wealth of books on the early discoveries of our solar system and beyond.  This is largely due to our founder, Narcissus Marsh, who had a life long passion for astronomy and collected many books on the subject. In 2019 we held a Planetary Quiz for primary schools.  We are sharing our […]

Engineers Week is approaching!

For the holiday season, here are two new online jigsaws!