An Ghaeilge Chlóite: Leabhair Ghaeilge agus chultúir i Leabharlann Uí Ruiséil 📖 Irish in Print: Irish language and culture books in the Russell Library 🧐Come see the bilingual exhibition on display + bilingual info on the books available here: sway.cloud.microsoft/65i6cOFFjJqRdq… #gaeilge

Our colleague Dr Alison FitzGerald was at the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University recently to speak about the exhibition "Seen with Great Delight: Spectacle in Georgian London", for which she is guest curator. The exhibition runs until August 22nd. walpole.library.yale.edu/programs/exhib…]

Huge congratulations to our colleague Prof Terence Dooley on his well deserved appointment to the Royal Irish Academy 🎉🎉 maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/pr…

🔔New blog post alert!🔔 Have you ever wondered what the oldest printed book is in Special Collections at Maynooth? 🤔 Read our latest blog post to find out the answer to one of the most common questions Maynooth University Library Yvette Campbell 📜 t.ly/_RvdP #incunabula

You can also check out the beautiful display outside the Special Collections & Archives reading room on level 2 Maynooth University Library 📚

Don’t forget you can follow us over on Instagram for some fun content and wonderful highlights from Special Collections & Archives! instagram.com/sca_mulibrary/

I ❤️ an incunable Friday! Today we have a lovely medium-sized book on ecclesiastical history from 1497 by Eusebius with this lovely woodcut printer’s device by Pierre Levet. Another incunable that is the only copy in Ireland according to the ISTC! #FridayFeeling

📢Can you help us decipher this Latin inscription for a Carmelite convent? Eternal Twitter (X) glory be yours! #sleuthing #inscriptions #manuscripts #research #Latin #incunabula

A special thank you to Joshua and David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 for helping trace the former owner inscription to the Schongau Monastery of the Discalced Carmelites founded in 1719 which is now a retirement home in Germany. #provenance CERL

Wishing our followers & friends another very happy (and hoppy!) #Easter break full of peace, hope & chocolate!🐰 The reading rooms in JPII and the Russell Library will be closed on Good Friday 18th April and Easter Monday 21st April and will re-open to readers on 22nd April.

Ruth Daly, School Liaison Officer SPPU, today loaned a signed copy of the Good Friday Agreement to the Russell Library in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. L-R: Alexandra Caccamo, Special Collections and Archives, Ruth Daly & Dr Michael Shortall, Interim President. Thank you Ruth

📢Can you help us decipher this inscription [excluding motto] for a monastery possibly from Flanders dated 1636? Eternal Twitter (X) glory be yours! #sleuthing #inscriptions #research #Latin #rarebookwordle

The 12,000+ bound pamphlet collection at the Russell library covers a wide range of topical and controversial issues, including those relating to the Irish Famine and the life and death of Napoleon Bonaparte, as highlighted in this blog post mulibrarytreasures.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/ech…

Best of luck to all Maynooth University Library colleagues presenting at CONUL Conference today especially Alex, Alma, Jenny and Sarah who will be speaking about bats 🦇to getting to know our collections! - check out the poster! #CONUL2025

We’re thrilled to share that Alma Deane and Jennifer O’Malley won Best Poster at the CONUL Conference in Tullamore last week! Huge congratulations to Jenny and Alma on this well-deserved recognition! #CONUL2025 #SpecialCollections #MULibrary

1/4 📜✨Newly available manuscripts from the Russell Library, Maynooth. MSS CF 1 & CF 34 now on Irish Script on Screen (ISOS), thanks to MU Special Collections & Archives MU Special Collections & Lámhscríbhinní Choláiste Cholmáin. 19th-c Irish manuscripts contain poetry, religious texts & stories

MU Library is now on Bluesky! Follow us at bsky.app/profile/mulibr… for updates, ideas, and library news. We'll be posting less frequently on X going forward, so we hope to see you there.

Fantastic post from Ciara Joyce Maynooth University Library about her work on two collections relating to the theatre in Ireland. The archive of the New Theatre Group and An Damer . mulibrarytreasures.wordpress.com

A Tale of Two Theatres 🎭 This month's @sca_mulibrary blog post on mulibrarytreasures.wordpress.com is about two Irish #theatre archives that have become available to researchers in Maynooth University Library's Special Collections & Archives: The New Theatre Group + An Damer.