Emily Klos's online exhibition about John Aubrey's The natural history and antiquities of the County of Surrey… 5 vols (London, 1718), is now available online: edwardworthlibrary.ie/exhibitions-... This marks the 400th of this birth in 2026-see another exhibition @chippenhammuseum.bsky.social also!

We're really excited today because our new environmental monitoring system has just gone live! To find out about how @heritagecouncil.ie has helped us see edwardworthlibrary.ie/preserving-o... and see our events during Heritage Week Details here: edwardworthlibrary.ie/news-and-eve...

Thucydides is always relevant! edwardworthlibrary.ie/book-of-the-... In this blogpost Ms Kayleigh O’ Connor (Ancient and Medieval History and Culture BA, TCD), investigates Thomas Hobbes’ translation of The History of the Grecian War ... (London, 1676). Please repost @tcddublin.bsky.social

We still have some places left on our 11.00am and 2.00pm tours tomorrow of @edwardworthlibrary in Dr Steevens' Hospital, opposite Heuston Station. Tours are free but please book via info@edwardworthlibrary.ie @culturedated8.bsky.social @libereurope.bsky.social #LAG2026 #LibraryArchitecture #LIBER

Please notes that Cathy Scuffil's lecture in @edwardworthlib is now booked out!

Ada Sussman's fascinating exhibition on 'Making the News: The Spectator and The Guardian in the Early Eighteenth Century' is now available online: edwardworthlibrary.ie/exhibitions-... Please repost @irishtimes.com @thespectator1828.bsky.social @theguardian.com @news.rte.ie @independent.ie

All are welcome to join us in @edwardworthlib.bsky.social , between 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm today for the opening of Ada Sussman's exhibition, 'Makings the News: The Spectator and The Guardian in the Early Eighteenth Century'. Please note that numbers are limited in the Edward Worth Library..

Immerse yourself in the world of early eighteenth-century periodicals tomorrow at the opening of Ada Sussman's new exhibition, 'Making the News: The Spectator and The Guardian in the Early Eighteenth Century'. Join us tomorrow, 30 April, between 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm. @failte-ireland.bsky.social

This Thursday, 30 April, 11:00 am-1:00 pm and 2:00 pm-4:00pm in @edwardworthlib.bsky.social come explore the world of eighteenth-century news production with our newest exhibition 'Making the News: The Spectator and The Guardian in the Eighteenth Century'. Please repost @irishtimes.com @news.rte.ie

Today marks the anniversary of the birth in 1641 of the Scottish phyician and geographer Sir Robert Sibbald. Sibbald was keenly interested in Scotland's natural history and included a section on birds in his Scotia illustrata (Edinburgh, 1684): birds.edwardworthlibrary.ie/waterbirds/w...

Sad to hear that our beloved merlins are at risk of extinction: www.theguardian.com/environment/... See also birds.edwardworthlibrary.ie/birds-of-prey/ @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @theguardian.com

UK’s smallest bird of prey among 200 species at risk of extinction, study finds

Merlin could disappear in worst-case scenario, with British isles facing ecological ‘point of no return’

theguardian.com

Please note change of venue for lecture on 2 April: The lecture will take place at 4:15pm in the Synge Theatre, 2039 Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin, rather than the Mediaeval Seminar Room, Phoenix House, 7-9 South Leinster Street, Room PX 2.1 as previously advertised.

What is your favourite bird? We'd love to hear which image from Worth's books about birds you like best! See birds.edwardworthlibrary.ie for a host of images! Please repost: @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social

Find details of @edwardworthlib's 2026 Lecture and Events listing here: edwardworthlibrary.ie/news-and-eve... All are wellcome but as space is limited, places must be booked in advance! @visitdublin.bsky.social @failte-ireland.bsky.social @culturedated8.bsky.social @dublincitylibs.bsky.social

How did a ‘Numidian chicken’ make its way to Bologna? Find out at @EdwardWorthLib’s second ‘Bird of the Week’ for 2026 : birds.edwardworthlibrary.ie/land-fowl/ Please repost @rspb.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social

Spring has officially arrived and how better to celebrate than by enjoying @EdwardWorthLib’s first ‘Bird of the Week’ for 2026, a beautiful swan. To find out more see : birds.edwardworthlibrary.ie/waterbirds/s... Enjoy! @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social

The Worth Library's Research Fellowships for 2026 have just been advertised. Find out more at edwardworthlibrary.ie/research-fel... Please repost! @bodleian.ox.ac.uk @cerl-community.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @harvard.edu

Pierre Daniel Huet's Memoirs sur le Commerce des Hollandois … (Amsterdam, 1717), is the focus of the December Book of the Month, written by Ms Apriliya Rida Nabila (MA in Public History, UCD). Find out more at edwardworthlibrary.ie/book-of-the-...

Mary, Queen of Scots was born #OTD in 1542 at Linlithgow Palace.

Cera Linnell explores the career of Hernán Cortés in México in our November Book of the Month: edwardworthlibrary.ie/book-of-the-... #Mexico

Completing a very successful joint-conference with the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance, on the topic: ‘Medical Education in Europe, 1350-1750‘!

If you missed the segment on #MooneyGoesWild on our newest exhibition 'Birds at the Edward Worth Library' please see the link below. Thanks to all involved!

caitrionalee.bsky.social@caitrionalee.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Birds at the Edward Worth Library www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... The #MooneyGoesWild team have a feature this week on the new online exhibition at the Edward Worth Library, Dublin @edwardworthlib.bsky.social showcasing this fantastic collection! edwardworthlibrary.ie/exhibitions-... #NatureArchives

Looking forward to hearing Professor Pierce Grace (University of Limerick): on the topic ‘Medicine in medieval Ireland, 1200-1650’ this afternoon. Professor Grace is giving the Davis Coakley Memorial Lecture in Medical History and the lecture is booked out.

birds.edwardworthlibrary.ie is launched! Thanks to Dr Dominique Crowley (artist), Ms John McGarry and Ms Maria McGarry (Webworks), Mr Paolo Viscardi (Keeper of Natural History at NMI); Dr Elizabethanne Boran (Librarian), Mr Derek O’Reilly (member, BirdWatch Ireland), and Dr Éanna Ní Lamhna.

We're really looking forward to hearing more about Grizelda Steevens today when Dr Priscilla Sonnier (University College Dublin) presents on ‘“Of Her Charity”: The Visual and Material Legacy of Grizelda Steevens’. This is the Griselda Steevens’ Memorial Lecture. This lecture is booked out!

Edward Worth Library is delighted to announce that our newest online exhibition, which is on early modern books about birds, is now available: birds.edwardworthlibrary.ie Enjoy and please share! @rspb.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @bto-gbw.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social

We're holding an Open Day today to celebrate Mr William Gawtry’s exhibition on ‘Hannibal and the Second Punic War’. We're open from 11.00am-1.00pm and 2.00pm-4.00pm. We're also launching William's Book of the Month blogpost: edwardworthlibrary.ie/book-of-the-... #ancienthistory #classics #history

You may know Virgil and Homer’s epics But what about Camões of Lisbon? One thousand two stanzas, each artistic Form The Lusiad, to be topped by none.

Today marks the anniversary of the death of the famous English mathematician, Thomas Harriot (1560-1621), whose Artis analyticae praxis (London, 1631) was collected by Worth. To find out more see mathematics.edwardworthlibrary.ie/notation/har...

Sir William Petty (1623-87) held strong views about taxation in early modern Ireland! Find out more at Ms Maeve Killion's exhibition on his books in @edwardworthlib: edwardworthlibrary.ie/exhibitions-...