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Research News

We love to see the results of research carried out in Marsh’s Library. These posts give details of some of the fascinating discoveries made by our readers.

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How to insult your king

Recent Maddock fellow Kelley Glasgow explores how writing history in the 17th century provided an outlet...

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Lives in Verse

Angela Byrne’s research investigates nineteenth-century women’s poetry albums as a form of life-writing.

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Emily Lawless’ Story of Ireland

Dr Renée Fox explores the archive of genre-defying Irish author and poet, Emily Lawless.

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Murder at the French Court

Dr Una McIlvenna explores the the secret murder of Concino Concini, adviser to Marie de Médici,...

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Tales of Whales

Maddock Fellow Dr Corrina Readioff describes how our attitudes to whales and marine life has developed...

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Wills and Dublin’s Huguenot community in Marsh’s Library

Recent Maddock Fellow Emily Vine shares some of her research into the wills made by members...

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Fellowships at Centre Culturel Irlandais

The Centre Culturel Irlandais in the heart of Paris is offering a fellowship in 2025 to...

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Two Fellowships for Independent Scholars, 2025

Exciting visiting research fellowships for independent scholars

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New Exhibition: Gutenberg’s Cradle

Our new exhibition offers a rare chance to see books printed in the decades after the...

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Dublin and the French Revolution

Maddock Fellow Maria Zukovs looks at how the French Revolution was portrayed in the Dublin press.

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Sir Kenelm Digby, Pietro Bembo, and the contested origins of Italian

Maddock Research Fellow, Dr Niall Dilucia explores how annotations in Sir Kenelm Digby’s books reveal the...

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The 6th Randolph Vigne Memorial Lecture, 2023

Smuggling, Stealing, Selling & Shooting the books of Dr Élie Bouhéreau A public lecture by Dr...

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‘With Apologies for Troubling You’ : Marsh’s 19th- and 20th-century Librarians

Dr Michelle Johansen, Associate Fellow at London’s Institute of Historical Research, reports on her recent Maddock...

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Gulliver’s Afterlives

Daniel Cook explores our continuing fascination with Jonathan Swift’s satirical masterpiece.

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Wide Horizons: 17th Century French-British-Swiss Networks

Dr Vivienne Larminie explores 17th century Europeans’ wide horizons and extensive networks. I arrived at Marsh’s...

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Mother Ireland

Dr Ellen Scheible discusses her recent Maddock Research Fellowship exploring the idea of ‘Mother Ireland’ among...

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Marsh’s Mathematical Marvels

Dr Cynthia Huffman explores the mathematical marvels in Narcissus Marsh’s personal collections.

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Using Transkribus for your Research

A Research Methods Workshop by Dr Janée Allsman Saturday, May 13th 2023 Marsh’s Library, St Patrick’s Close,...

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Know your Adversary: Dissident Books in Edward Stillingfleet’s Collection

Maddock Fellow, Dr Ana Sáez Hidalgo explores books in Bishop Edward Stillingfleet’s collection written by his...

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‘Sacrifice to Heavenly Truth’: Tracing John Flamsteed’s History of the Heavens

Maddock Fellow Emma Hill tracks down the surviving copies of a pirated 18th century book

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Inks & Skins: Investigating Manuscripts

Inks & Skins is a research project studying the material aspects of late-medieval (1100–1600) Gaelic manuscripts.

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Stocktake finds

Look what we found while doing a stocktake of the historic collections!

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Recording injustice: Marsh’s rare French pamphlets

Maddock Fellow Dr Linda Briggs discusses the extremely rare French pamphlets she read during her recent...

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Marsh’s earliest printed treasures

Sara D’Amico describes what she found among Marsh’s oldest printed books.

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An Irishwoman on the continent

Maddock Fellow Dr Kristina Varade of City University of New York (BMCC) discusses the extraordinary travelogue...

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A Nation Once Again

Dr Colin Reid, Senior Lecturer in British and Irish History at the University of Sheffield, discusses...

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Listen Back – A Place of Stories

Patricia Baker’s radio documentary about Marsh’s Library

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A 17th Century Academic Bun Fight

Professor Crawford Gribben tells us about his recent research…

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Women in the Benjamin Iveagh Library

  Dr Nora Moroney tells us of some exciting finds in our library at Farmleigh House.

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Fellowship on Eighteenth-Century Ireland

Joel W. Herman has been awarded the A. C. Elias, Jr., Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship for...

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Benjamin Iveagh Library Award

Congratulations to Dr. Nora Moroney who has completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship on our Benjamin Iveagh...

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Melmoth the Wanderer

Dr Tina Morin of the University of Limerick received an Irish Research Council award to work...

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William Bedell, Venice and the Irish language

  Eloise Davies tells us about her recent research at Marsh’s Library.

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The Habsburg-Bourbon Double Marriage of 1612-15

Dr Bram van Leuveren of the University of St Andrews in Scotland tells us about his...

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Swift and Georgian Dublin

Four leading experts on Jonathan Swift presented short papers on aspects of the great man’s life,...

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Élie Bouhéreau and the World of the Huguenots

The conference was a great success!

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Exciting Visiting Research Fellowship!

The Dr Bríd McGrath Fellowship for Independent Scholars

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Censorship Footprints

Prof. Javier del Barco shares an example of the discoveries he made in Marsh’s.

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A poem asking finders to return a book

As a student of librarianship in Leipzig, Germany, I naturally love to work with rare books.

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A Fantastic Find…from 1489!

In this post, Professor Javier del Barco tells us of an exciting find he has made...

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Lalla Rookh Bicentenary Symposium

27 May 2017 marked the two-hundredth anniversary of the publication of Thomas Moore’s epic oriental poem,...

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Scholarly Scribbles: Isaac Casaubon’s Marginalia

Dr Nicholas Hardy of Cambridge University explains what led him to Marsh’s, where he made some...

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Narcissus Marsh, the Theatre Impresario, and the Bolshevik Revolution

Olga Taranova is a journalist and translator living in Dublin.

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Manuscript online: a Latin-English-Irish dictionary

Around 1743, the library paid £20 for this dictionary which links Latin, English, and Irish (Gaelic).

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The Invention of Journalism

Andrew Pettegree’s talk on the making of the news is now available as a podcast

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Angelica’s Book

This intriguing book by Professor Brendan Dooley was launched in Marsh’s on Friday, 18th November 2016

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Politics and Print in the Early Modern Period: Hebrew Books and the Christian Imagination

This round table session brought together experts on Jews and Christians in the Early Modern Period...

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Mystery of Daniel O’Connell’s letter solved

                  On Saturday 29th August, we conducted a...

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The Perils of Print Culture

Congratulations to Dr Jason McElligott, Keeper of Marsh’s Library, and Professor Eve Patten of Trinity College...

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Willem Piso and the wonders of Brazil

Research Fellow Timothy Dale Walker describes Piso’s publication on Brazilian flora and fauna

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