- Founded in 1707, Marsh’s Library holds some 25,000 books and 300 manuscripts, and is the oldest public library in Ireland.
- Though visitors tend to flock to see the Book of Kells, less make the journey down to Marsh’s Library, the atmospheric home to nearly 25,000 rare books.
- Learn how Ireland's oldest public library came to be and uncover the household names who studied there with our history of Marsh's Library Dublin.
- Marsh’s Library welcomes visitors of all ages and backgrounds. Visitors are asked to pay an entrance fee of €7, with €4 for students and senior citizens.
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- This often-forgotten refuge, which at first glance appears to be no more than an old library, is home to more than simply sloping shelves and leather-bound books.
- When it first opened in 1707 it was the first public library in Ireland. The interior of Marsh’s Library has remained largely unchanged since that time.
- Ordered by Archbishop Narcissus Marsh in the C18th, Marsh’s Library stands today a priceless trove of knowledge, literature and history.
- Follow me on my visual and written Gothic adventures through Dublin as I explore a 300 year old haunted Marsh's Library, a crypt, and an invisible graveyard.
- Marsh’s Library is a superb example of late Renaissance architecture, its tall windows and red brick walls a tantalizing encasement of the many valuable tomes within.