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#MULibraryAdvent Day 15🎄  

Can you find the very Green Celtic bird? We hope he’s not a Grinch!- Search for it here and no peeking ahead!🫣-https://ow.ly/X61k50Xyf95
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#MULibraryAdvent Day 14🎄  

‘All Happiness be Yours this Christmas-tide’ – Can you find the simple but sweet homemade card?- Search for it here and no peeking ahead!🫣-https://ow.ly/mqov50Xyf4k
December 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#MULibraryAdvent Day 13🎄  

Can you find the jolly postman ringing his bell for Christmas post? We hope you’ve done all your shopping! - Search for it here and no peeking ahead!🫣-https://ow.ly/I7HR50XyeWu
December 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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We’re at the halfway point! Are you enjoying the Advent Experience? Don’t forget to click on the info spot to learn a little more about Brian O’Higgins (1882-1963).

#MULibraryAdvent Day 12🎄

Can you find his colourful poem? Search for it here and no peeking ahead!🫣-https://ow.ly/wwrh50XyeR2
December 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#MULibraryAdvent Day 11🎄  

Can you find the two little girls on their way home for Christmas?- Search for it here and no peeking ahead!🫣-https://ow.ly/PKlM50XyeMq
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#MULibraryAdvent Day 10🎄  

Can you find the silhouettes of a carriage ride and a cheeky squirrel?- Search for it here and no peeking ahead!🫣-https://ow.ly/swqO50XyeJr
December 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#MULibraryAdvent Day 9🎄  

Can you find the hanging lantern guarded by some Celtic birdies?- Search for it here and no peeking ahead!🫣-https://app.cloudpano.com/tours/0TnYSzTAK
December 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#MULibraryAdvent Day 8🎄  

Can you find the Celtic-inspired design in this Christmas card of Brian O’Higgins?- Search for it here and no peeking ahead!🫣-https://ow.ly/A2Su50XyeBc
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#MULibraryAdvent Day 6🎄  

Can you find the cold stroll in a 19th century scene?- Search for it here and no peeking ahead!🫣-https://ow.ly/i8oH50XyekW
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#MULibraryAdvent Day 5🎄  

‘Gloria in excelsis Deo’ - Can you find the colourful nativity scene?- Search for it here and no peeking ahead!🫣-https://ow.ly/Z3Nn50XyeeP
December 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#MULibraryAdvent Day 4🎄  

Can you find the red-faced Celtic bird with the little house?- Search for it here and no peeking ahead!🫣-https://ow.ly/jQqp50Xye2X
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#MULibraryAdvent Day 3🎄  

Can you find the greetings sincere with the purple string? - Search for it here and no peeking ahead!🫣https://ow.ly/hNrJ50XycV1
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#MULibraryAdvent Day 2🎄  

Can you find the teach beag gleoite leis an díon buí? - Search for it here and no peeking ahead!🫣-https://ow.ly/2GEv50Xycr7
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Today is the day where we launch the Virtual Advent Experience 2025! 🥳
Come back each day for a sneak peek 🔍

#MULibraryAdvent Day 1🎄
Can you find the very serious speckled duck? - Search for it here and no peeking ahead!🫣- https://ow.ly/C2ar50XyaH7
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Very excited to launch our 2025 virtual Advent experience tomorrow based on vintage Irish handmade Christmas cards in our Special Collections & Archives!🎄
📯Tomorrow we will be launching 'Nollaig Shona' - The Art of Irish Christmas Cards’ our virtual Advent calendar experience for 2025!❄️ 

Follow alongside us here or Instagram Maynooth University Library MU Library Makerspace for clues from 1st-24th December! 

#MULibraryAdvent🎄
November 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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📯Tomorrow we will be launching 'Nollaig Shona' - The Art of Irish Christmas Cards’ our virtual Advent calendar experience for 2025!❄️ 

Follow alongside us here or Instagram Maynooth University Library MU Library Makerspace for clues from 1st-24th December! 

#MULibraryAdvent🎄
November 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Let’s celebrate Explore Your Archive 2025! Read our latest blog post ‘Lifting the Lid on Archives’ by archivist Róisín Berry and find out more about how MU Library has been highlighting our fantastic archival collections this winter: https://mulibrarytreasures.wordpress.com/
#ExploreYourArchive
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
More Maynooth beauties to admire from @stpatsmaynooth.bsky.social fully digitised with thanks to ISOS 📜
1/4📜✨New on ISOS: from the Russell Library, Maynooth
three 19th-c. Manuscripts for Fr. Muiris Cinniféic,
scribes Éamonn Ó Mathghamhna & Pól Ó Longáin.
Saints’ lives, genealogies, law, devotional, etc
links to Book of Lismore & the Leabhar Muimhneach.

🙏Thanks to
@mulibrary.bsky.social
@dias.ie
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Christmas is in the air today in frosty #Maynooth. Arrived this morning to a surprise decorated office courtesy of Russell Library elves!

Prep is well and truly underway for the MU Virtual #AdventCalendar 2025 w/ a sneaky peak 👇🏻

Frosty morning 🥶 ✅
Decorations🎄 ✅
Trusty Santa notebook 🎅🏻 ✅
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Anyone got a spare £million? Asking for.... Well, asking for me news.artnet.com/art-world/me...
Rare Gospel Written by Medieval Women Could Fetch More Than $1 Million at Auction
A recently discovered gospel likely written by women at the abbey of Essen in the 10th century could sell for more than $1 million.
news.artnet.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Read all about our oldest Gaelic manuscript held in the Russell Library @stpatsmaynooth.bsky.social as part of the LEIGHEAS project @maynoothuniversity.ie 📜
The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for November 2025 is Maynooth, @mulibrary.bsky.social MS C110, containing an Irish translation of Arnaldus de Villanova’s Speculum medicinae completed in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork on 15 May 1414:

leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
November 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This tiny book printed in 1549 caught my eye for this little insignia of a dragon on the title-page and spine. While not the insignia of Dracula (as I secretly hoped), this cute stamp is from the stunning Archiginnasio Library in #Bologna and likely belonged to Giacomo #Boncompagni (1548-1612).
October 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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This 13th of Oct dare you enter the pumpkin patch on campus with our 2025 #Halloween Virtual Experience with MU Library Makerspace featuring images from the collections of St Patrick's Pontifical University Maynooth University Library🎃
Enter Here - https://ow.ly/GJMS50XavQR
Oíche Shamhna!🧙‍♀️

October 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Printer's device of Swiss printer Andreas Cratander (1490-1540) designed by Hans Holbein the Younger featuring #Occasio, the Roman goddess of good fortune and opportunity.

@stpatsmaynooth.bsky.social - RB 54a, Basel, 1536

#printersmark #rarebooks
September 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Culture Night is this Friday, 19 Sept!

Drop in, no booking needed:
📚 Russell Library (16:30–18:30)
⛪ College Chapel, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth (16:30–18:30)
🔬 Science & Ecclesiology Museum (16:00–20:00) + bilingual storytelling!

culturenight.ie/even...

#CultureNight #OícheChultúir
September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM