Archbishop Marsh's Library

02/06/2026

Using our pop-up book as inspiration. Pop-out mechanisms are a little bit easier to make with younger children. Instructions can be found on our website!

29/05/2026

Whatever you're up to this weekend, may you be as entertained as these swans and fish! woodcut from Olaus Magnus' History of the Northern People, 1555.

28/05/2026

It's very lovely to see all the irises in bloom around Dublin 8 at the moment. These lovely hand-coloured ones are from a mid-16th century herbal.

26/05/2026

A happy looking dog at court. From the engraved title page of Hugo de Groot's Introduction to Dutch jurisprudence, printed in 1636.

25/05/2026

An impressive bouquet of flowers from Paul Contant's 'Le Bouquet Printanier', printed in 1600 in La Rochelle.

21/05/2026

Somebody went to real efforts to erase what was written on the title page of this work on Roman obelisks from 1589. They scribbled out the inscription and pasted a slip of paper over it. Must've been scandalous!

19/05/2026

In our latest blog post, recent Maddock Fellow Dr Joe Borsato
looks at how Indigenous peoples shaped Huguenot colonization in the seventeenth century.

Recent Maddock fellow Joe Borsato discusses how Indigenous peoples shaped Huguenot colonization in the seventeenth century. On 27 May 1603, the Innu (Montagnais), an Indigenous people of northeastern North America, met a group of Frenchmen who arrived near the confluence of the Saguenay and St. Lawr...

19/05/2026

The binder used a fragment of printed music to line the spine of the letters of Aldo Manuzio the younger, from 1592. Music was tricky to print & the page may have had an error, or perhaps it didn't sell. Whatever the reason, it ended up in the waste pile.

18/05/2026

On Newstalk's Talking History , Marsh's Director Dr Jason McElligott joined Prof Daniel Cook, Dr David Kenny & Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir to talk about the continuing impact of Gulliver's Travels 300 year after it was first published:

We mark the 300th anniversary of the publication of one of the most influential books ever writte...

14/05/2026

A tiny map of Venice from the title page of a pamphlet printed in 1606. The pamphlet, 'Considerationi sopra le censure della Santita di Paolo V contra la serenissima Republica di Venetia' was printed during the Venetian Interdict of 1606-7, a quarrel between the Roman Church & Venice which led to a temporary excommunication of Venetian Catholics.