2026 News and Events
The May Book of the Month is now online: Thomas Hobbes’ translation of The History of the Grecian War: In Eight Books. Written by Thucydides … (London, 1676). Text: Ms Kayleigh O’ Connor, fourth-year student Ancient and Medieval History and Culture BA degree, Trinity College Dublin.
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Celebrating Culture Date with Dublin 8 2026 the Edward Worth Library is holding lectures and tours. Tours will be at 11.00am on Wednesday 6 May and 11.00am and 2.00pm on Friday 8 May. Tours are free but booking is required: info@edwardworthlibrary.ie
In addition, the Library is hosting 2 lectures:
5 May: Dr Cathy Scuffil (Independent Scholar): ‘Why Flanagan’s Fields?’ This is the local history lecture in the Worth Library 2026 series.
7 May: Dr Elizabethanne Boran (Librarian of the Edward Worth Library): ‘’Satellites at the court of the Sun King’: French bookbindings in the Edward Worth Library’. This is the Grizelda Steevens Memorial Lecture and in 2026 is being run as a special Dublin City Council Culture Company event for Culture Date with Dublin 8: all bookings should be via the Culture Company link: Culture Club booking page
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New small exhibition launching on 30 April 2026!
Making the News: The Spectator and The Guardian in the Early Eighteenth Century
This Thursday, come explore the world of eighteenth-century news production with Ada Sussman’s new exhibition ‘Making the News: The Spectator and The Guardian in the Early Eighteenth Century’. Using Worth’s collection of early modern periodicals, Ada explores how the informal essay transformed news writing from a journalistic, sociological, and historical perspective. The exhibition illustrates the material reality of eighteenth-century news production, the political theatre it engaged with, the emerging taste of the middle class, and the urban space in which it was canonised.
The exhibition will be open to the public from
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. and from 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. on Thursday, 30 April.
All are welcome!
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The 2026 Edward Worth Library Lecture and Events series is now available.
Please note change of venue for the first lecture:
2 April: Professor Leah de Vun (Rutgers University), ‘Biological Facts: Doing the History of Nonbinary Sex and Gender in Premodern Europe’. This is the joint Trinity College Dublin–Worth Library lecture in Medieval and Renaissance Medicine and Science. Please note that it will be a hybrid lecture: the lecture will take place at 4:15 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. A Zoom link will be circulated for those on the mailing list wishing to attend remotely. To be added to the mailing list or to receive the Zoom link for this particular seminar please contact Professor Karras at ruth.karras@tcd.ie.
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Many thanks and every good wish to our out-going Ex-officio Trustee,
Mr Bernard Gloster,
who retired last week from his role as CEO of the Health Service Executive.
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The Worth Library Research Fellowships for 2026 have been advertised.
Find out more here.
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The Worth Library is delighted to announce that it has become a partner of the
Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance.