#PSA ahead of tomorrow's solar eclipse ☀️🌑 Never, ever, look directly at the sun! (more below) #solareclipse #TCDResearchCollections #TCDLibrary #TCD #FagelCollection

Our Library systems will have some downtime to facilitate updates behind the scenes on the morning of Tuesday 28 July until noon. This means while the catalogue will still be available to search, Click and Collect requesting and borrowing in person won't be available. Apologies in advance!

Ahead of the #TrinityTreasures documentary broadcasting tomorrow, Fri 17th July, listen back to Arena RTÉ Radio , featuring the Librarian & College Archivist Helen Shenton www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Looking forward to #TrinityTreasures starring the wonderful Trinity graduate & Oscar-nominated Ruth Negga with a host of our Library colleagues as they guide her through some of our collections items. Kicking off on Fri at 8.30pm on RTÉ 1 TV. For more details: www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

Curated by Stephanie Breen, Aileen Douglas and Ian Campbell Ross, the exhibition explores how Gulliver’s Travels has fascinated readers for 300 years, drawing on the rich collection of Swift’s masterpiece held in the Library of Trinity College Dublin.

Take a look behind the scenes as we install 'Gulliver at 300'! Running from July–December 2026, the exhibition celebrates 300 years of 'Gulliver’s Travels' by @tcddublin.bsky.social most distinguished alumni, Jonathan Swift. Explore the online exhibition: www.tcd.ie/library/exhi...

As we deinstall “Character is Better Than Wealth: The Enduring Legacy of Michael Davitt” and prepare to hand the reins over to Gulliver at 300, the curator would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who visited the exhibition and engaged with Davitt’s remarkable life and legacy.

🌈 ✨ We would like to wish everyone a very happy Pride!! ✨ 🌈 In celebration, we’re sharing this wonderful watercolour paint testing sheet from the Cuala Press Archives, which has been digitised and can be admired in more detail via our Digital Collections 👀 digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/work...

The Library welcomes our 23 Irish and international delegates to day 1 of ERASMUS Library Mobility Week, 2026. #ErasmusDublin26

Prime Minister Carney was also shown pages from the manuscript, the Book of Armagh with reference to his ancestral home Aghagower in Co. Mayo where St Patrick established a church (TCD MS 52 f.32 & f.13, see ‘Achad Fobuir’ 8 lines from the bottom in f.13).

We were delighted to host Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney and his wife Diana Fox Carney, joined by An Taoiseach Micheál Martin on his visit to the Old Library where he viewed the precious 9th century manuscript, Book of Kells.

An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin’s gift to Pope Leo XIV included Book of Kells facsimile reproductions from: Gospel of Matthew (22:39, folio 98r) “secundum autem simile est huic diliges proximum tuum sicut te ipsum” “And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself”

We were delighted to see An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin and his wife, Mary O’Shea in his private visit with Pope Leo XIV yesterday, presenting facsimile reproductions of the Book of Kells as part of a presentation gift.

A hundred years later, the 1926 Census offers a remarkable snapshot of the people who lived and worked at Trinity and the extraordinary stories within our records. Jean’s story is just one of them. www.tcd.ie/library/rese...

Located in Research Collections, the College Archives also hold rich resources for historical and genealogical research, from Board minutes and student entrance registers to College calendars or “guide books” documenting life at Trinity year by year.

Jean was the author of two published books and was awarded an honorary MA in 1945 prior to her death in 1949.

Students remembered her fondly for decades, whether keeping meals running during shortages, catering for Free State soldiers on campus in 1922, or surviving a gun battle on Moore Street while shopping for fish (the fish, unfortunately, did not make it back to campus).

The records preserved in the College Archives help bring many of these lives back into focus, including that of Jean Montgomery, a former Quartermaster in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during WWI who was the first woman Superintendent of the College from 1919–1949.

On this day in 1926, the census of Trinity College Dublin was certified, capturing campus life from 100 years ago. There were 185 people living across campus, from students and lecturers to support staff and their families. Among them were 26 “servants”, 17 of them women. @tcddublin.bsky.social

Job alert! 📢The Library of Trinity College Dublin is seeking an experienced #Archivist to work on the archive of the war correspondent and author Robert Fisk. Search "Project Archivist" on lnkd.in/epe82VKC to apply. Closing date 12:00, 27th May 2026.

We’re kicking off the weekend with some vintage advertisements, and in doing so highlighting an endangered species to mark Sir David Attenborough’s 100th year on Earth & his love for our planet ✨🌎 🌊 🐦 🌳 🎈

We’re celebrating William Shakespeare today in honour of his 462nd birthday 🎉 Did you know that we are home to the only copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio in Ireland? 🎭 Well now you do, and you can take a look at our digitised copy here 🔗 doi.org/10.48495/9s1...

To deal with reports of unauthorised access to Kinsella Hall and high demand on study spaces, the Library has introduced extended opening hours in the Hamilton Library and will be conducting ID card checks in Kinsella Hall. For details: www.tcd.ie/library/open... and www.tcd.ie/library/open...

A spot of provenance! 👀 (info. below)

"Patron comes to the library and asks for a book that ends in a cliffhanger. The Librarian says: ......." Celebrating April Fools' Day at the John Stearne Medical Library.

To celebrate the 180th anniversary of his birth, here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the installation of our exhibition “Character is Better Than Wealth: The Enduring Legacy of Michael Davitt.” You can visit the exhibition as part of The Book of Kells Experience and it will run until the end of June.

Have you visited ‘The Yeats Sisters & Irish Design’ exhibition, inside the newly refurbished Printing House? Recently, Dr Billy Shortall set eyes on this depiction of the building, designed by artist George Atkinson and printed by the Cuala Press in 1919. Did you know... (more below 👀)

It was a delight to share the Traveller Ethnicity Week book display with some visitors in the Library last week! #TravellerEthnicityWeek takes place at the beginning of March each year and we were very happy to be involved in this year's celebrations. Reading list: rl.talis.com/3/tcdlibrary...

A generous €7m gift from The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation, to support conservation and restoration of cultural treasures at Trinity, was announced last night. Read more: www.tcd.ie/news_events/...