Marsh's Library
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Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars. Registered Charity RCN 20000752
Dublin
Joined October 2011
A well used copy of Cordier's Latin dialogues inscribed and doodled on by Élie and Amateur, sons of our first librarian, Élie Bouhéreau (1643-1719) #Readers
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A sunny binding for a sunny day! Detail from a Dublin binding on The Gentleman & Citizen's Almanack, printed in 1795 #Bindings
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Welcome July! The month to enjoy fruit a plenty & to prune back the vines according to John Evelyn's 1664 Kalendarium Hortense #RareBooks #Horticulture
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Some very classically inclined moths squished in the pages of Lucien of Samosata's 'The Fishers' #RareBooks #Critters
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Did you know it's #NationalStitchDay? Disney's Lilo & Stitch, that is! Well this is a post from the archive, which is the best we can do on this topic. This is a flayhole in parchment that is 'stitch'ed up. #ParchmentRepairs #BookCovers #LiloAndStitch
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A dullish binding you say? But hang on a second. Bling! Another beauty from our Farmleigh collection. #BeautifulBindings #Books #CannotTellABookByItsCover @FarmleighOPW
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Two Hollywood A-listers walked into the library today unannounced for a tour. We would never be so crass as to mention their names. .
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Feeling like a kid in a sweet shop deciding which of our beautiful bindings from @farmleighOPW to put in our new exhibition! #Book #Libraries #BookBindings #Gold
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'Nurses, plumbers, carpenters and roofers. The women of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham'. A free lecture by Jason McElligott at @IMMAIreland in Kilmainham next Wed, 25th June from 6 pm to 7 pm. All welcome. Organised by @opwireland To book a place, go to
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Vive l’amitié Franco-Irlandaise!! C'était formidable d'accueillir à la bibliothèque de Marsh ce groupe d'écoliers français qui lisent un roman se déroulant dans la bibliothèque de Marsh. @afdublin @FranceinIreland @CelinePlace.
🇫🇷 What a buzz to host 40 pupils from Bordeaux in @MarshsLibrary. These second year pupils from Assomption Sainte Clotilde have been reading #TheDoomsdayClub in class and were full of questions on the book, the writing process and everything in between.
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Among the 'experts' who offered advice to journal readers was Jonathan Swift.
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They didn't mince words in 17th century advice columns. From the Athenian Mercury for the 10th February 1694.
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I'm not sure this engraving quite captures the ferocity of a crocodile, but it is nice all the same! From the Grand Magazine, August 1758 #WorldCrocodileDay
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A 20-year-old James Joyce signed our visitor book when he came to Marsh's on 22nd & 23rd October 1902, giving his address as 7 St Peter's Terrace (now St Peter's Road, Phibsboro). Learn about what he read in our online exhibition: #Bloomsday2025
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This 1527 work on the apocalypse by Joachim Abbas was likely one of the books James Joyce consulted when he read in Marsh's in 1902. Bag one of the few remaining tickets for our Bloomsday tour to see it in the flesh!
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We still have tickets available for our #Bloomsday Tour on Saturday 14th June at 3pm. A viewing of his signature in our visitors' book and the 'fading prophecies of Joachim Abbas' mentioned in Ulysses will be at the end of the tour. Book here:
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A gorgeous title page and frontispiece on our 1695 edition of 'Voyage or relation of the present state of the Kingdom of Persia' by Mr Sanson, a French missionary who had spent a decade at the Safavid court negotiating on behalf of Louis XIV
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A beautiful blue & yellow embroidered binding covers our 1838 volume of 'Heath's Book of Beauty', an annual collection of poetry, essays and portraits #bindings #19thCentury
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