Archbishop Marsh's Library

04/09/2026

Sea monsters in Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum. Be careful sailing near Tiguex!

03/09/2026

Marsh's Library will be closed to visitors from September 5th-14th as we prepare for our new exhibition. We will reopen on September 15th at 9:30am and look forward to welcoming you back.

02/09/2026

We were delighted to welcome Mr Paulo Artur dos Santos de Campos Rangel, Portuguese Minister of State & Foreign Affairs (centre), and His Excellency, João Pedro Fins do Lago, Ambassador of Portugal to Ireland (left) to Marsh's Library.
Our colleague Olga Taranova showed them some of our collections related to Portugal, including Irish architect James Cavanah Murphy's magnificent plans of the monastery of Batalha from 1795.

02/09/2026

This week is the last chance to see our exhibition 'Gulliver 300', celebrating the 300th anniversary of the publication of Jonathan Swift's masterpiece. It closes on Friday 4th September, before setting off on its travels to the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris!

01/09/2026

Where am I, maps of the ancient world version! The four countries are all in Europe, can you guess what modern countries they are from (working clockwise from the largest)? From Abraham Ortelius' Parergon, first printed in 1595.

31/08/2026

The beautiful watermark on a letter to our librarian in 1943 tells us the paper was made in Swift Brook paper mills, founded in 1785 in Saggart, Co. Dublin. They produced paper for bank notes, stamps, and also the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic, before finally closing in 1972.

31/08/2026

Marsh's Library is now on LinkedIn! Follow us at www.linkedin.com/company/marsh-s-library

28/08/2026

A magnified transection of a thistle stalk by Nehemiah Grew. Grew was one of the first scientists to use a microscope to study the internal structure of plants.

27/08/2026

The very lovely Sandi Toksvig visited our library early in the summer, and we're delighted to see the promo video for her forthcoming shows about Irish literature for Britain's Channel 4 on the 3rd and 10th of September.
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27/08/2026

The names of Robert and Elizabeth Cotton are inscribed at the front of Commentarius brevis rerum in orbe gestaru (1586). Strangely, they appear to be written in a child's hand.