- It also has an impressive double main reading room, a strong room with eight locks, and an additional four rooms containing a reference library and rare books.
- Today I visited Marsh's Library, the oldest public library in Dublin dating to 1701, located adjacent to St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
- Opening in 1707 Marsh’s Library was the first ever public library in Ireland. However that’s not the library’s only claim to fame.
- 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.
- Marsh’s Library is the first public library in Ireland, opening its doors in Dublin in 1707 and as such is a vital part of Irish heritage and tourism.
- Marsh's Library is the oldest public library in Ireland and houses a collection of rare and interesting books and manuscripts.
- 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.
- 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.
- Marshs-Library-Dublin-2. What do Bram Stoker, the ghost of an Archbishop, Newton’s Principia Mathematica and an ancient Egyptian mummy have in common?
- A library in Dublin that most people overlook. Marsh’s Library in Ireland is just as worth seeing as the Book of Kells in Trinity College.