Check out our latest blog post on MU Library Treasures regarding the problems of tea and tea drinkers! mulibrarytreasures.wordpress.com/?p=7828

Any weekend plans? We're delighted to report that the Marquess of Sligo Archive has been fully digitised! MU Digital Library. You can access the digitised version in our record below. #FridayFeeling 📜

Printed at the Sign of the Three Candles, Dublin 1941, for #PoetryDayIreland 2024 we have 'On First Visiting Killiney' by Jamaican poet Ferdinand Levy from his only published volume, Flashes from the Dark, SP3422. For more see tinyurl.com/bdepu8u4 #poetry

Small but beautiful. Autograph book belonging to Irish politician Domhnall Ua Buachalla, Frongoch, #1916 #SomthingSmall #Archive30

Having been 'inconvenienced' by Napoleon, Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo, finally arrives in Paris in April 1814. His stay on the continent was brought about by a desire to escape the scandal of a vastly different stay, in Newgate Prison! #ArchiveTravel #Archive30

Any weekend plans? We're delighted to report that photographs from the Ken Saro-Wiwa Archive have been fully digitised MU Digital Library. You can access the digitised version in our record below. #FridayFeeling 🇳🇬

Join us in Royal Irish Academy Library for a series of lunchtime lectures on the past, present & future of early modern book collections in Ireland & Europe.

Where: Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St

When: 24 April, 8 & 15 May 2024, 1-2pm

Book tickets online: bit.ly/3Uiw3gW

#RIAHS

Some of the fashionable individuals from our archival collections Maynooth University Library #ArchiveFashion #Archive30

To all book conservators, this is a great opportunity to work with amazing colleagues and wonderful collections! MU Special Collections & Archives

From our current exhibition at the Russell Library on women in the book trade, Martina Plantin was the daughter of the founder of the Plantin Press and it is still possible to visit the Museum Plantin-Moretus press today.

Here we see her listed as ‘viduam…’ on the imprints.

What’s better than one early book from the #Badius press with its distinctive titlepage? …an earlier #Aldine casually alongside it!

Two giants of the printing press bound together available now📚

MU Special Collections & Archives RB 367/A, Paris, 1520
RB 367/B, Venice, 1516

#TypeThursday