In our new digital display, you can see what appointments Michael Collins had this week in 1918. Visit the front foyer of our building on Bishop St, D.8. to use our document reader & look through all 5 #MichaelCollinsDiaries, 1918-1922. Anyone else at the dentist this morning?

The shadows are getting longer. Early morning at Newgrange on Oct 1st. #Newgrange

Snap! On the left, an illustrated newspaper ad from 1742 advertising the wares of a Dublin locksmith. On the right, a key still in use in Marsh's today in our reader cages built in 1767...

You are invited to join us for our 2022 Anam Cara Gala on November 5th. This year we are honoring 3 people who have and continue to do great work for Irish abroad and in Arizona as whole, Michael Crow, Beth & Friends and Jane Hilton (posthumous). azirish.org/anam-cara/

#SeamusHeaney #Halloween

It is Hallowe’en. Turnip Head Will soon be given his face, A slit, two triangles, a hole. His brains litter the table top. A candle stub will be his soul. “Hallowe’en” by Michael Longley

On this #Halloween night in 1839, Annie was stolen by the fairies outside #Carndonagh #Donegal Be careful out tonight 🎃 #Samhain Donegal Daily Highland Radio John Mc Candless Myths Folklore & Fairytales (in pre-production) dúchas.ie Enniskillen Castle: Fermanagh County Museum Barra Best Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh Halfbaked - Tour Guide, hapless but mainly happy! The Heritage Council Oxfordshire Museum Service

To find the origin of #Halloween, you have to look to the festival of #Samhain in Ireland's Celtic past. #HappyHalloween irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/origin-of-Hall…

#happyhalloween2022 and #HappySamhain from all of us at the library!

For #StoutDay today, we’re sharing this label from our ephemera collection for Blackwater #Brewery Ballynatray XX #Stout (from Co. #Waterford). At the centre of the logo is the company's trademark of a #beehive surrounded by five #bees. 🐝 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000…

Listen back to our archivist Elizabeth McEvoy who featured in last night's documentary on @lyricfm about the creation of a theatre piece based on the civil war gaol diaries kept by artist, revolutionary and visionary Dorothy Macardle. rte.ie/radio/lyricfm/…

Support the ICLF this holiday season by signing up for Amazon Smile & registering the Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation as your chosen org. @amazonsmile will donate 0.5% of your eligible purchases to the organization of your choice. Learn more; aboutamazon.com/news/community…

We hear this might be the end of twitter, so we'll be in the stacks singing: youtu.be/u0ZNXxPP10I?t=…

The ICLF is proud to be a sponsor & Grand Finale location for the 5th Annual Indie Film Festival in February. It will include documentary films, short films, music videos, virtual reality, & multimedia installations. Tickets are now on Sale at ow.ly/T7hB50LSGSC

On this evening’s show: Fiona Murray and Eda Sagarra on the unknown men and women who traveled to London for the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.

200 years ago #OTD, the Commissioners for the Relief of the Poor sent their annual Recapitulation of Grants to the Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, with a special breakdown for the distribution of biscuit and meal, telling us who the local distributors were: See CSO/RP/1822/3031

Thank you Robin Norton and The Irish Times for this little bit of library love in the letters page today!

Wonderfully exposed, carboniferous, solitary Rugose Coral fossils, County Donegal, Ireland.

Good piece on a 5th century burial in Co. #Sligo. Well done to National Museum of Ireland National Monuments Service and especially to the landowner Declan Forde for following the correct course of action agriland.ie/farming-news/s…