News

NLI wins Public Service Excellence Award (6/22/2012): National Library of Ireland wins Public Service Excellence Award; second major social media programme award win for the National Library since April of this year
Pardon for soldiers who deserted the Irish Army (6/14/2012): View our latest online video on "Irish army deserters and the morality of neutrality"
RARE BOOK COLLECTION UNAVAILABLE FROM 28 MAY– 16 JULY (5/8/2012): The Library’s recent Clean Sweep project has resulted in most of our rarest books being cleaned and rehoused. The next phase for managing the rare book collections is to move them to modern, clean shelving where they will be housed in a secure and more controlled environment. These collections will be unavailable from 28 May to 16 July 2012 and inlcude the Joly, LO, Dix, Thom, O’Kelley, Swift and O’Casey (LO) and certain music collections.
Top social media award for National Library of Ireland (4/26/2012): NLI wins an Ireland eGovernment award in the Social Media Category.
Hundreds of visitors to Europeana WWI collection roadshow (3/22/2012): Thousands of items and memories to go online
'Particles of the Past' Exhibition Now Open (2/23/2012): Join us as we celebrate Dublin City of Science
Book Launch: 'Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival' by Catherine Morris (2/17/2012): This book will be launched by Professor Declan Kiberd on Wednesday 14 March 2012 in the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Watch our Events Online! (2/10/2012): We've played host to many wonderful interviews and debates here at the NLI over the years. We're delighted to announce that you can now watch them online!
Discover Exhibition Closing Temporarily (2/6/2012): Please note that a new phase of Discover your National Library entitled Particles of the Past located at 2 Kildare St is being installed from next Monday, 13 February. The exhibition will be closed from that date until Monday, 27 February inclusive.
Watch 'War of Independence' Hedge School Online (2/2/2012): Watch this and other events online