NLI Christmas Opening Hours

All NLI locations will be closed on the following dates:

• 24 December
• 25 December
• 26 December
• 1 January 2026

Reading Rooms & Readers Ticket Office:

• Closing at 5pm, Tuesday 23 December
• Re-opening at 9.30am, Friday 2 January 2026

Exhibitions:

Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats, 7 Kildare Street

• Closing at 5pm, Tuesday 23 December
• Re-opening at 9:30 Saturday 27 to Tuesday 31 December (last admission 4:30).

Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again, Westmoreland Street

• Closing at 5pm, Tuesday 23 December
• Re-opening at 10am, Friday 2 January 2026.

Please note: The temporary exhibition Friendship Postcards: Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth is located at our College Green location (Bank of Ireland Cultural Centre), NOT Kildare Street. Free entry | Until 6 January

Live Aid, National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar

• Closing at 4pm, Tuesday 23 December
• Re-opening at 10am, Saturday 27 December.