Join us this Pride on Zoom for a virtual tour of our online exhibition, Living with Pride: Photographs by Christopher Robson. Learn about the man behind the camera and his wonderful collection of 2000 images, which capture protest, Pride, and the LGBTI+ community in Ireland from the years of 1992-2007. 

Join Niamh Ní Riain for this online talk through Irish, about the life and works of  WB Yeats.

Discover more details about his personal life and how it affected his poetry. Find out how he influenced the Irish cultural revival, and what theatre he established in Dublin. Learn more about one of Ireland's most famous poets and his poetry in this  introductory Irish language talk.

The talk is suitable for those who are new to the Irish language and those who have more experience with it, and is open to all. Free, but booking is required, as the talk will take place over zoom. 

This book club is for everyone, you don't need to be a poetry expert!

There will be an opportunity to read our favourite poems from this collection, chat about themes and inspirations and ask questions about anything we didn't understand.

Enjoy a fascinating journey exploring the highlights of Heaney's archive, from his rural origins through to his remarkable career as a poet

The exhibition draws on items from the National Library of Ireland’s Yeats Collection, the largest collections of books, manuscripts and personal items relating to WB Yeats in the world.

Explore Yeats’ many interests – Ireland, literature, folklore, theatre, politics, mysticism and the occult. Exhibition highlights include manuscripts of many of Yeats’ most beloved poems including “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and “Easter, 1916”, his Nobel Prize medal, personal artefacts from Yeats’ school reports to a cherished carved piece of lapis lazuli, remarkable photographs of Yeats and his family and friends, and much more.

Helen Hooker O'Malley gifted over 1,200 of her photographic works to the National Library of Ireland in 1992, the year before her death. Almost all of these works date from the 1970s.

An American by birth, Ireland became Helen’s home following her marriage in 1935 to the Irish writer and revolutionary, Ernie O’Malley. Though their marriage ended in 1952, her love for Ireland remained constant throughout her life.

Clarke, a medical doctor from Co. Monaghan, took the images while he was a student in Dublin between 1897 and 1904. His approach is remarkable as an early example of a modern photojournalistic style, focused on the people of Dublin rather than the city’s architecture.

This exhibition reveals his vivid record of Dubliners at the turn of the twentieth century.

Dublin was the focal point of the activity in the Easter 1916 rebellion against British rule in Ireland, but counties Galway, Meath and Wexford also experienced pockets of fierce fighting. Maps, photographs, prints, and manuscripts reveal the stories of the people and places involved in the Rising across Ireland.