Marsh’s Library wishes to appoint an Assistant Librarian to work with its rare books and manuscripts.

Closed from 5pm on Saturday 21 December 2019: open on Thursday 2 January 2020.

Minifigure Hunting!

We are very proud of our Hebrew and Yiddish books…

Love stories? love the unusual? come to Marsh’s Library…

The conference was a great success!

Recent discoveries about Bram Stoker’s research for Dracula

The Dr Bríd McGrath Fellowship for Independent Scholars

Marsh’s Library holds a rich collection of maps

Visit this unspoiled gem in the heart of the city!

…is now a permanent fixture of the library!  

Visit the library and step into these works of the imagination!

Our minifigures keep finding new hiding places!

Launched by our collaborator, Dr Anne Marie D’Arcy, at the Trieste Joyce Summer School

An exciting new exhibition (buy the catalogue online)!

Call for applications now closed

 An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, welcomed the German Chancellor Dr Merkel to Farmleigh House

We were delighted to host the artist Melissa Ellis

Success has beckoned since Dublin artist Melissa Ellis opened her exhibition here.

a story of a wayward reader!

Dr Laura Cleaver tells us about a remarkable find among our medieval manuscripts

We’re delighted to be a part of this exciting project coordinated by Dr René Gapert

Prof. Javier del Barco shares an example of the discoveries he made in Marsh’s.

As a student of librarianship in Leipzig, Germany, I naturally love to work with rare books.

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 from 1489 discovered in Marsh’s I discovered a very old book which was not in the Library catalogue. The book is in Hebrew and was […]

Olga Taranova is a journalist and translator living in Dublin.

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.

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

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

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

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

Four leading experts on Jonathan Swift will present short papers (each of 20 minutes’ duration) on aspects of the great man’s life, writings, and relationships.

We had 716 visitors to the library on Culture Night!

Many thanks to all the teachers and students who attended