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The Library and Archives are closed to external visitors and enquiries 10 - 14 November.

Our team are auditing the collections and having a whale of a time…🐋

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November 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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📚Newly catalogued: The George Eogan Library
Former Museum Librarian Connie Bettison reflects on cataloguing Prof. George Eogan’s working library-2,000+ archaeology books & journals in the National Museum of Ireland Library
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Lynn Scarff, James Eogan and Fiona Eogan in the stacks. Image by Emma Skarstrand © National Museum of Ireland
April 17, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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What’s the oldest book in the National Museum of Ireland Library? UCD MLIS student Sofia Arias explores Olaus Magnus’s A Description of the Northern Peoples (1567), filled with Scandinavian life, mythology and sea monsters.
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Detail of the title page of the Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus. Copy number 025816. Research image by Sofia Arias © National Museum of Ireland
August 28, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Apr 2
This week, managers at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) were informed that 77 employees—virtually the agency’s entire staff—would immediately be put on paid administrative leave, according to one of the workers, who sought anonymity out of fear of retaliation from Trump officials.
The DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and Museums
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has long received bipartisan support. But after years of trying, President Donald Trump has delivered it a crushing blow.
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April 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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#museum30, day 17: the Museum’s library couldn’t possibly fit on one #bookshelf, so here’s what I’ve finished recently or still reading. 😍🤓📚 Be sure to check out the beauty library on the Museum’s home page! #beautybook #makeuphistory #makeupmuseum #museumlibrary
February 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM