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Updated / Wednesday, 7 Apr 2021 13:23 A British machine gun located in the Iveagh Buildings on Bull Alley sprayed the building with bullets, shattering windows and damaging books. Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh's Library, writes about Changed Utterly?, a new online exhibition which traces the experience of minorities during the Irish Revolution. Founded in the Liberties of Dublin in 1707 by an Anglican clergyman, Marsh’s Library was widely associated in the popular mind with the Union between Britain and Ireland. During Easter Week 1916, its location beside Jacobs’ biscuit factory a...

iStock.com/Jacob Ammentorp Lund There may be no greater repository of analog information than the library, a glorious assembly of printed pages that can take us on adventures, educate us, and fill our days and nights with details of worlds beyond our own—all free of charge. Today, there are roughly 116,867 public and academic libraries dotting the country. To celebrate National Library Week, we've rounded up 25 fascinating facts about these irreplaceable institutions. 1. Benjamin Franklin started up a lending library in 1731. Hulton Archive/Getty Images One of the oldest public libraries in...

Updated / Friday, 8 Jan 2021 17:30 With children of all ages studying from home once again, our friends at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum decided to pull together some of the free educational resources available from Ireland's top museums. And because they are so keen to spread the word on all the great things to see and learn online they sent it on to RTÉ to celebrate the wonderful work still going on even in these tough times. Unsurprisingly, there’s lots of materials covering art and history. But there’s some for English, Irish, science and maths too. There's over 20 museum web...