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Curated by Stephanie Breen, Aileen Douglas and Ian Campbell Ross, the exhibition explores how Gulliver’s Travels has fascinated readers for 300 years, drawing on the rich collection of Swift’s masterpiece held in the Library of Trinity College Dublin.

Take a look behind the scenes as we install 'Gulliver at 300'! Running from July–December 2026, the exhibition celebrates 300 years of 'Gulliver’s Travels' by @tcddublin.bsky.social most distinguished alumni, Jonathan Swift. Explore the online exhibition: www.tcd.ie/library/exhi...

🌈 ✨ We would like to wish everyone a very happy Pride!! ✨ 🌈 In celebration, we’re sharing this wonderful watercolour paint testing sheet from the Cuala Press Archives, which has been digitised and can be admired in more detail via our Digital Collections 👀 digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/work...

Although the exhibition is coming down, you can continue exploring Michael Davitt's story through the online exhibition www.tcd.ie/library/exhi... the digitised images www.tcd.ie/library/rese... and the project page www.tcd.ie/library/rese... #VirtualTrinityLibrary #MichaelDavitt #IrishHistory

As we deinstall “Character is Better Than Wealth: The Enduring Legacy of Michael Davitt” and prepare to hand the reins over to Gulliver at 300, the curator would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who visited the exhibition and engaged with Davitt’s remarkable life and legacy.

Today I deinstalled my exhibition, “Character is Better than Wealth: The Enduring Legacy of Michael Davitt” after its four month run @tcdlibrary.bsky.social. A sincere thank you to everyone who visited, attended a lecture, asked for a tour, listened, watched or supported the exhibition in any way. 🖤

A hundred years later, the 1926 Census offers a remarkable snapshot of the people who lived and worked at Trinity and the extraordinary stories within our records. Jean’s story is just one of them. www.tcd.ie/library/rese...

Located in Research Collections, the College Archives also hold rich resources for historical and genealogical research, from Board minutes and student entrance registers to College calendars or “guide books” documenting life at Trinity year by year.

Jean was the author of two published books and was awarded an honorary MA in 1945 prior to her death in 1949.

Students remembered her fondly for decades, whether keeping meals running during shortages, catering for Free State soldiers on campus in 1922, or surviving a gun battle on Moore Street while shopping for fish (the fish, unfortunately, did not make it back to campus).

The records preserved in the College Archives help bring many of these lives back into focus, including that of Jean Montgomery, a former Quartermaster in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during WWI who was the first woman Superintendent of the College from 1919–1949.

On this day in 1926, the census of Trinity College Dublin was certified, capturing campus life from 100 years ago. There were 185 people living across campus, from students and lecturers to support staff and their families. Among them were 26 “servants”, 17 of them women. @tcddublin.bsky.social

“Edinburgh’s Unruly Women” is coming out in paperback this summer 😎 You can preorder here: www.routledge.com/Edinburghs-U... for hundreds of case studies of individual women who navigated their local church courts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🩵📜 @routledgebooks.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @voicestcd.bsky.social

Our current exhibition “Character is better than wealth: the enduring legacy of Michael Davitt” will be featured on RTÉ’s Nationwide on Wednesday, May 6th at 7pm. Tune in to hear curator Ciara Daly share insights into Davitt’s remarkable legacy. #VirtualTrinityLibrary 🎥

Ciara Daly@dalykeeks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’ll be on Nationwide next Wednesday the 6th of May at 7pm speaking about the legacy of Michael Davitt and my current exhibition @tcdlibrary.bsky.social 🎥

I’ll be on Nationwide next Wednesday the 6th of May at 7pm speaking about the legacy of Michael Davitt and my current exhibition @tcdlibrary.bsky.social 🎥

It was a real pleasure to speak to the Friends of the Library last week about my exhibition, “Character is better than wealth: the enduring legacy of Michael Davitt.” Thank you to everyone who attended and helped make the discussion so engaging.

These marks provide a unique record of and insight into the history of print making in Ireland and are a tangible link to past times when female entrepreneurship, local industry and craftsmanship were thriving alongside one another ✨

Noted during the ongoing cataloguing of these historic artefacts, the wooden blocks upon which the photoengraved zinc plates rest feature stamps or impressions hinting to their creator.

A spot of provenance! 👀 (info. below)

We’re celebrating William Shakespeare today in honour of his 462nd birthday 🎉 Did you know that we are home to the only copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio in Ireland? 🎭 Well now you do, and you can take a look at our digitised copy here 🔗 doi.org/10.48495/9s1...

An online exhibition is available www.tcd.ie/library/exhi... and the Michael Davitt Papers are currently being digitised as part of a #VirtualTrinityLibrary project and are available to view digitalcollections.tcd.ie/collections/...

To celebrate the 180th anniversary of his birth, here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the installation of our exhibition “Character is Better Than Wealth: The Enduring Legacy of Michael Davitt.” You can visit the exhibition as part of The Book of Kells Experience and it will run until the end of June.

It was a delight to share the Traveller Ethnicity Week book display with some visitors in the Library last week! #TravellerEthnicityWeek takes place at the beginning of March each year and we were very happy to be involved in this year's celebrations. Reading list: rl.talis.com/3/tcdlibrary...

We were delighted to have the opportunity to take the MPhil “Lived Experiences of Early Modern Women” class to view different manuscripts in the @tcdlibrary Manuscripts & Archives. Special thank you to Dr. John Gillis and Estelle Gittins for sharing their work and insight into the collection!

‘Tuar ceatha’ or Rainbow (literally ‘prophecy of rain’). Continuing with some interesting phrases ‘as Gaeilge’ as part of #SeachtainNaGaeilge #SnG26

Did you know ‘Breacadh an lae’ or Sunrise literally means ‘brightening of the day’. Learn a phrase a day as part of #SeachtainNaGaeilge this week #SnG26.

As we celebrate #SeachtainNaGaeilge. Here’s a great selection of Irish language books for all levels of Irish speakers in our new reading list: rl.talis.com/3/tcdlibrary... You can check out some of them on the Book Display in the Eavan Boland Library.

Agus muid ag ceiliúradh #SeachtainNaGaeilge. Seo rogha leabhar Gaeilge in ár liosta léitheoireachta nua; rl.talis.com/3/tcdlibrary... Tá siad feiliúnach do chách – idir foghlaimeoirí agus cainteoirí líofa: Is féidir leat breathnú ar chuid acu i dTaispeántas Leabhar i Leabharlann Eavan Boland.

Gifts like these are helping us to achieve our ambitions to re-imagine the Old Library as a place of wonder, education and enlightenment accessible for all from school children to scholars.