Marsh's Library
@marshslibrary.bsky.social
Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
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Marsh's Library will be closed for the Christmas period from 5pm Friday December 19th and will re-open at 10:30am Tuesday January 6th. Wishing you all a safe and happy 2026.
In our last blogpost of 2025, Maddock Research Fellow
Dr Zoë Van Cauwenberg @zvancauwenberg.bsky.social sheds light on some of the women authors and illustrators among the book owned by Benjamin Guinness, now part of our Benjamin Iveagh collection
marshlibrary.ie/between-the-...
Dr Zoë Van Cauwenberg @zvancauwenberg.bsky.social sheds light on some of the women authors and illustrators among the book owned by Benjamin Guinness, now part of our Benjamin Iveagh collection
marshlibrary.ie/between-the-...
Between the Bindings: Uncovering the Histories of Irish Women Writers - Marsh's Library
Zoë Van Cauwenberg uncovers some of the Irish women writers and illustrators in the Benjamin Iveagh collection.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
In our last blogpost of 2025, Maddock Research Fellow
Dr Zoë Van Cauwenberg @zvancauwenberg.bsky.social sheds light on some of the women authors and illustrators among the book owned by Benjamin Guinness, now part of our Benjamin Iveagh collection
marshlibrary.ie/between-the-...
Dr Zoë Van Cauwenberg @zvancauwenberg.bsky.social sheds light on some of the women authors and illustrators among the book owned by Benjamin Guinness, now part of our Benjamin Iveagh collection
marshlibrary.ie/between-the-...
Marsh's Library will be closed for the Christmas period from 5pm Friday December 19th and will re-open at 10:30am Tuesday January 6th. Wishing you all a safe and happy 2026.
December 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Marsh's Library will be closed for the Christmas period from 5pm Friday December 19th and will re-open at 10:30am Tuesday January 6th. Wishing you all a safe and happy 2026.
Join us for a tour in Ireland's oldest and coldest public library followed by a tasting of delicious whiskey from our friends at Teeling Whiskey Distillery!
Tours are at 6:30-8:00pm January Friday 23rd and January Friday 30th.
Book here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/teeling-wh...
Tours are at 6:30-8:00pm January Friday 23rd and January Friday 30th.
Book here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/teeling-wh...
December 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Join us for a tour in Ireland's oldest and coldest public library followed by a tasting of delicious whiskey from our friends at Teeling Whiskey Distillery!
Tours are at 6:30-8:00pm January Friday 23rd and January Friday 30th.
Book here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/teeling-wh...
Tours are at 6:30-8:00pm January Friday 23rd and January Friday 30th.
Book here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/teeling-wh...
A map of the arctic circle from Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior, v.1 from 1662. Interesting take on a polar bear!
December 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
A map of the arctic circle from Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior, v.1 from 1662. Interesting take on a polar bear!
A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).
Some of the lovely 'baubly' bindings on display in our current exhibition 'Exquisite & Rare: Book Bindings from the Library of Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh' #Christmas #Bindings
December 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Some of the lovely 'baubly' bindings on display in our current exhibition 'Exquisite & Rare: Book Bindings from the Library of Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh' #Christmas #Bindings
Hand-coloured mistletoe from a 16th century herbal. Do people still hang it much in their homes over Christmas?
December 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Hand-coloured mistletoe from a 16th century herbal. Do people still hang it much in their homes over Christmas?
Tiny reindeer from a map of Norway in vol.1 of Joan Blaeu's 11 volume Atlas Major, 1662 #Christmas #Maps
December 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Tiny reindeer from a map of Norway in vol.1 of Joan Blaeu's 11 volume Atlas Major, 1662 #Christmas #Maps
Is your Christmas tree up yet, or is it still too early? Hand-coloured fir tree with bonus wildlife, from Hieronymous Boch's herbal printed 473 years ago.
December 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Is your Christmas tree up yet, or is it still too early? Hand-coloured fir tree with bonus wildlife, from Hieronymous Boch's herbal printed 473 years ago.
A map of the topography of the moon from Johannes Hevelius' Selenographia, the first lunar atlas, printed in 1647 #supermoon #astronomy
December 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A map of the topography of the moon from Johannes Hevelius' Selenographia, the first lunar atlas, printed in 1647 #supermoon #astronomy
Is it just us or is there a dog-like look to the sea monster in this 1576 map of Corfu?
November 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Is it just us or is there a dog-like look to the sea monster in this 1576 map of Corfu?
A roaring fire is just the thing for a chilly Tuesday in November. Doodle found inside the 1672 'New Rules' for the regulation of cities and towns in Ireland.
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A roaring fire is just the thing for a chilly Tuesday in November. Doodle found inside the 1672 'New Rules' for the regulation of cities and towns in Ireland.
We were so excited to welcome astronauts Dr Norah Patten & Dr Shawna Pandya to Marsh's last Friday organised by The Embassy of Canada in Ireland & Space Medicine Ireland. After a tour & a sit down in the chairs used by Bram Stoker & James Joyce, we showed them some of our astronomy books! 🚀✨🪐
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
We were so excited to welcome astronauts Dr Norah Patten & Dr Shawna Pandya to Marsh's last Friday organised by The Embassy of Canada in Ireland & Space Medicine Ireland. After a tour & a sit down in the chairs used by Bram Stoker & James Joyce, we showed them some of our astronomy books! 🚀✨🪐
Galileo explaining the cosmos to the muses. The frontispiece from the first edition of his collected works, printed in Bologna 1655-6.
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Galileo explaining the cosmos to the muses. The frontispiece from the first edition of his collected works, printed in Bologna 1655-6.
Our collection of parrots, watercolour on velum, from Eleazar Albin's 'Natural History of Birds', mid 18th century
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Our collection of parrots, watercolour on velum, from Eleazar Albin's 'Natural History of Birds', mid 18th century
So many heretics out there, but thankfully you can spot them by their pointy ears!
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
So many heretics out there, but thankfully you can spot them by their pointy ears!
Our Maddock fellow Ben Card spotted this error correction in a 1645 pamphlet 'The primitive practise for preserving truth' this morning. We think the errors in every copy were corrected manually in the print shop before they were sent out. A lot of work for some poor apprentice! #errors #printing
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
If you are in Dublin over the next few months, don't miss this gorgeous exhibition of some of the treasures in our Benjamin Iveagh Library at the Farmleigh Gallery in the Phoenix Park. #opw #farmleigh
November 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
If you are in Dublin over the next few months, don't miss this gorgeous exhibition of some of the treasures in our Benjamin Iveagh Library at the Farmleigh Gallery in the Phoenix Park. #opw #farmleigh
Who's a good weesle headed armadillo?! This engraving of what we now call a a nine-banded armadillo is from Nehemiah Grew's 'Musaeum Regalis Societatis', a 1681 catalogue 'of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal society'.
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Who's a good weesle headed armadillo?! This engraving of what we now call a a nine-banded armadillo is from Nehemiah Grew's 'Musaeum Regalis Societatis', a 1681 catalogue 'of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal society'.
We have it on good authority that this 17th century play by Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher is one of the dirtiest in English!
November 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We have it on good authority that this 17th century play by Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher is one of the dirtiest in English!
Remember remember! Some very blurry printing on this highly sectarian pamphlet about 'the 5th of November' printed in 1679
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Remember remember! Some very blurry printing on this highly sectarian pamphlet about 'the 5th of November' printed in 1679
Best to look away now if you're squeamish! Surgical instruments for use on the eyes, from 'Les Oeuvres de chirurgie de Jacques Guillemeau' printed in 1694.
November 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Best to look away now if you're squeamish! Surgical instruments for use on the eyes, from 'Les Oeuvres de chirurgie de Jacques Guillemeau' printed in 1694.
A teeth-rottingly happy hallowe'en to all!
Skeleton from William Cowper's Anatomy of Human Bodies, 1698. The plates in this enormous book are from the 1685 Dutch edition of Govert Bidloo's 'Anatomia humani corporis' & were used by Cowper with no acknowledgement.
Skeleton from William Cowper's Anatomy of Human Bodies, 1698. The plates in this enormous book are from the 1685 Dutch edition of Govert Bidloo's 'Anatomia humani corporis' & were used by Cowper with no acknowledgement.
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A teeth-rottingly happy hallowe'en to all!
Skeleton from William Cowper's Anatomy of Human Bodies, 1698. The plates in this enormous book are from the 1685 Dutch edition of Govert Bidloo's 'Anatomia humani corporis' & were used by Cowper with no acknowledgement.
Skeleton from William Cowper's Anatomy of Human Bodies, 1698. The plates in this enormous book are from the 1685 Dutch edition of Govert Bidloo's 'Anatomia humani corporis' & were used by Cowper with no acknowledgement.