2025 News and Events
The Edward Worth Library’s newest online exhibition
‘Birds at the Edward Worth Library’
is now available,
with a smaller physical exhibition on display in the library.
Dublin Festival of History 2025
at the
Edward Worth Library
Spaces in the Edward Worth Library are limited: to book a place for events please e-mail info@edwardworthlibrary.ie
Friday 26th September – 3pm
Dr Priscilla Sonnier (University College Dublin): ‘“Of Her Charity”: The Visual and Material Legacy of Grizelda Steevens’. This is the Griselda Steevens’ Memorial Lecture. [Booked Out]
Tours of the Edward Worth Library will take place on the following dates and times:
Monday 29th September – 11.00am and 2.00pm.
Wednesday 1st October – 11.00am and 2.00pm.
Friday 3rd October – 11.00am and 2.00pm.
Monday 6th October – 11.00am and 2.00pm.
Wednesday 8th October – 11.00am and 2.00pm.
Friday 10th October – 11.00am and 2.00pm.
Thursday 2nd October – 3pm
‘Celebrating Nature: A Poetry Reading’ with poet Pat Boran
Thursday 9th October – 3pm
Dr Brendan Twomey (Independent Scholar): ‘From Office-holding to Civil Service: managing the nation’s finances in eighteenth-century Ireland’. This is the Brendan Prendiville Memorial Lecture.
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Pictures from the launch of our
‘Birds at the Edward Worth Library‘ exhibition.
Top from left: Dr Dominique Crowley (artist), Ms John McGarry and Ms Maria McGarry (Webworks), Mr Paolo Viscardi (Keeper of Natural History at the National Museum of Ireland): Bottom from left: Dr Elizabethanne Boran (Librarian of the Edward Worth Library), Mr Derek O’Reilly (member, BirdWatch Ireland), and Dr Éanna Ní Lamhna, who kindly launched https://birds.edwardworthlibrary.ie/ We are grateful also to Mr Antoine Mac Gaoithín for his wonderful photographs from the Worth collection!
Trustee of the Worth Library, Mr Brian Murphy, introducing the launch.
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The Charles Benson Memorial Lecture in Book History
Professor Andrew Pettegree (University of St Andrews), will be giving the Charles Benson Memorial Lecture in Book History at 3.00pm tomorrow, 16 July. His topic will be ‘Bookselling. Writing the History of a Restless Trade’. A few spaces for this lecture have just become available – if you’d like to attend please book a place by e-mailing: info@edwardworthlibrary.ie as soon as possible.
Open Day on 17 July:
On Thursday 17 July we are holding an Open Day to celebrate our intern Mr William Gawtry’s small exhibition on ‘Hannibal and the Second Punic War’. The Worth Library will be open from 11.00am-1.00pm and 2.00pm-4.00pm. Come see William’s exhibition and find about the courageous Carthaginian general Hannibal!
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The Librarian of the Edward Worth Library, Dr Elizabethanne Boran, gave a lecture about the Edward Worth Library on Wednesday 30 April 2025 as part of the Trinity College Dublin Centre for the Book Lecture Series.
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To mark Ms Maeve Killion’s small exhibition on ‘Sir William Petty at the Edward Worth Library’ there will be an Open Day at the Edward Worth Library on 1 May 2025:
10.30am-12.30pm; 2.00pm-4.00pm.
Come see our latest exhibition!
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Joining with out friends in Culture Date with Dublin 8 we are holding a number of events to celebrate wonderful Dublin 8! On 7 May at 3.00pm Dr Cathy Scuffil (Dublin City Historian in Residence) will give the local history lecture in the Worth Library 2025 series on the topic ‘Rialto Buildings – the place and the people’. This is taking place in the Worth LIbrary so does please book a seat as spaces in the Edward Worth Library are limited: please e-mail info@edwardworthlibrary.ie
We are also offering tours of the Worth during Culture Date with Dublin 8 on
Friday 9 May 11am, 12pm, 2pm & 3pm
This is a free event but booking is required: Please e-mail info@edwardworthlibrary.ie to book a place on a tour.
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In October 2025 the Edward Worth Library will be holding a joint conference with the
Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance, Pisa,
on the topic
‘Medical Education in Europe, 1350-1750: Texts, Institutions, Practices‘.
This will be held in the Domus Comeliana, CSMBR, Pisa and details are available here.
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The Edward Worth Library is saddened to announce the death of Mr Kieran Hickey, our Founding Trustee.
As a mark of respect to Mr Hickey, the Edward Worth Library will be closed on Wednesday 5 March.
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The 2025 Edward Worth Library Seminar series is now available.
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Trustees and Staff of the Edward Worth Library attending a retirement party in the National Library of Ireland for our much esteemed Trustee, Mr Gerard Long!
From left: Dr Elizabethanne Boran (Librarian), Mr Anthony Kelly (Chair of the Worth Library Trust), Mr Gerard Long (Trustee), Ms Maureen Browne (Trustee), Mr Antoine Mac Gaoithín (Library Assistant), Ms Helen Stokes (Trustee).