The National Library of Ireland collects and preserves the documentary and intellectual record of the life of Ireland. It is open, free of charge, to all those who wish to consult the collections; receive assistance from the genealogy advisory service and visit the award winning exhibitions. Current exhibitions include Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats and Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again.
The National Library of Ireland continues to welcome the public to Yeats: The Life and Work of William Butler Yeats which is an award winning exhibition for people of all ages and nationalities, exploring the story and the many works of one of Ireland’s most famous poets. This exhibition is in the main National Library building, 7-8 Kildare Street. It is open Mondays to Saturdays. Check their website for the various opening times.
Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again is an exhibition on one of Ireland’s most loved poets and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The exhibition draws on the National Library’s extensive archive of Heaney documents and features original manuscripts as well as diary entries and to-do lists. This exhibition is at the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre, Westmoreland Street, D02 VR66. It is open Tuesday to Saturday. Check their website for the opening times.
The Reading Room, the Microfilm Reading Room and the Manuscripts Reading Room, located at 2-3 Kildare Street, D02 TR76, is open Mondays to Fridays and closed on public holidays. Check their website for the various opening times.
- Ireland in the 80s: The Full Picture | Music
Free things to doIreland in the 80s: The Full Picture | Music Irish bands heading for the world stage, a homegrown scene finding its voice and an Irishman at the heart of Live Aid.
- Translating a Nation: Into English
Free things to doTranslating a Nation: Into English An in Conversation series 'Translating a Nation' The series celebrates the roles of Irish writers, publishers and translators in bringing Irish literature to a European readership and the Irish readers who read European literature in translation.
- Ireland in the 80s: The Full Picture | Food
Free things to doIreland in the 80s: The Full Picture | Food Ann Marie Duffin of Bia Duit, whose exploration of Irish food history has a huge following online, explores how the way we ate, cooked and thought about food changed forever
- Dublin By Dusk | Twilight Talks
Free things to doDublin By Dusk | Twilight Talks Join us for our third Twilight Talks which highlight how NLI collections have informed, shaped, or transformed Readers' research.
- Dublin By Dusk | Kildare Street After-hours
Free things to doDublin By Dusk | Kildare Street After-hours The National Library of Ireland is open late! As part of Dublin by Dusk, join us in our Reading Room and W.B. Yeats exhibition.
- Twilight Talks at National Library of Ireland
Free things to doTwilight Talks at National Library of Ireland Join us for our third Twilight Talks which highlight how NLI collections have informed, shaped, or transformed Readers' research.
- Ireland in the 80s: The Full Picture | Fashion
Free things to doIreland in the 80s: The Full Picture | Fashion Writer Robert O'Byrne, The Irish Aesthete, sits down with designer John Rocha to talk about what Ireland wore in the 1980s.
