Today marks the anniversary of the birth in 1641 of the Scottish phyician and geographer Sir Robert Sibbald. Sibbald was keenly interested in Scotland's natural history and included a section on birds in his Scotia illustrata (Edinburgh, 1684): birds.edwardworthlibrary.ie/waterbirds/w...
Sad to hear that our beloved merlins are at risk of extinction: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
See also birds.edwardworthlibrary.ie/birds-of-prey/
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Please note change of venue for lecture on 2 April: The lecture will take place at 4:15pm 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.
What is your favourite bird? We'd love to hear which image from Worth's books about birds you like best! See birds.edwardworthlibrary.ie for a host of images! Please repost:
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Find details of @edwardworthlib's 2026 Lecture and Events listing here:
edwardworthlibrary.ie/news-and-eve...
All are wellcome but as space is limited, places must be booked in advance!
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How did a ‘Numidian chicken’ make its way to Bologna? Find out at @EdwardWorthLib’s second ‘Bird of the Week’ for 2026 : birds.edwardworthlibrary.ie/land-fowl/
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Spring has officially arrived and how better to celebrate than by enjoying @EdwardWorthLib’s first ‘Bird of the Week’ for 2026, a beautiful swan. To find out more see : birds.edwardworthlibrary.ie/waterbirds/s...
Enjoy! @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social
The Worth Library's Research Fellowships for 2026 have just been advertised.
Find out more at edwardworthlibrary.ie/research-fel...
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Pierre Daniel Huet's Memoirs sur le Commerce des Hollandois … (Amsterdam, 1717), is the focus of the December Book of the Month, written by Ms Apriliya Rida Nabila (MA in Public History, UCD).
Find out more at edwardworthlibrary.ie/book-of-the-...
Mary, Queen of Scots was born #OTD in 1542 at Linlithgow Palace.
Cera Linnell explores the career of Hernán Cortés in México in our November Book of the Month: edwardworthlibrary.ie/book-of-the-...
#Mexico
Completing a very successful joint-conference with the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance, on the topic: ‘Medical Education in Europe, 1350-1750‘!
If you missed the segment on #MooneyGoesWild on our newest exhibition 'Birds at the Edward Worth Library' please see the link below. Thanks to all involved!
Looking forward to hearing Professor Pierce Grace (University of Limerick): on the topic ‘Medicine in medieval Ireland, 1200-1650’ this afternoon. Professor Grace is giving the Davis Coakley Memorial Lecture in Medical History and the lecture is booked out.
birds.edwardworthlibrary.ie is launched! Thanks to Dr Dominique Crowley (artist), Ms John McGarry and Ms Maria McGarry (Webworks), Mr Paolo Viscardi (Keeper of Natural History at NMI); Dr Elizabethanne Boran (Librarian), Mr Derek O’Reilly (member, BirdWatch Ireland), and Dr Éanna Ní Lamhna.
We're really looking forward to hearing more about Grizelda Steevens today when Dr Priscilla Sonnier (University College Dublin) presents on ‘“Of Her Charity”: The Visual and Material Legacy of Grizelda Steevens’. This is the Griselda Steevens’ Memorial Lecture. This lecture is booked out!
Edward Worth Library is delighted to announce that our newest online exhibition, which is on early modern books about birds, is now available:
birds.edwardworthlibrary.ie
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We're holding an Open Day today to celebrate Mr William Gawtry’s exhibition on ‘Hannibal and the Second Punic War’. We're open from 11.00am-1.00pm and 2.00pm-4.00pm.
We're also launching William's Book of the Month blogpost: edwardworthlibrary.ie/book-of-the-...
#ancienthistory #classics #history
But why create this work of rhetoric?
Was the English translation a true one?
Our Book of the Month shows the poem’s trail
To remain, through time, a relevant tale.
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#BookOfTheMonth #Travel #Colonialism #History #Portugal #CapeOfGoodHope #Poetry #Translation
You may know Virgil and Homer’s epics
But what about Camões of Lisbon?
One thousand two stanzas, each artistic
Form The Lusiad, to be topped by none.
Today marks the anniversary of the death of the famous English mathematician, Thomas Harriot (1560-1621), whose Artis analyticae praxis (London, 1631) was collected by Worth. To find out more see mathematics.edwardworthlibrary.ie/notation/har...
Sir William Petty (1623-87) held strong views about taxation in early modern Ireland! Find out more at Ms Maeve Killion's exhibition on his books in @edwardworthlib:
edwardworthlibrary.ie/exhibitions-...
Join the voyage of Vasco da Gama in June's Book of the Month, delving into The Lusiad. Composed originally in Portuguese by Luís de Camões, Os Lusíadas stands against the test of time to still be considered the national poem of Portugal over 450 years later.
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Today is the feast day of #Colum Cille (#Columba) (c. 521–597), founder of the monastery of #Iona. Find out more about him at edwardworthlibrary.ie/exhibitions-...
We were honoured to welcome Ms Helen Stokes and the participants of the 2025 HOPE Exchange Programme to the Edward Worth Library this morning!
We're giving tours of the Library's latest exhibition today at 11.00am, 12.00pm, 2.00pm and 3.00pm and booking details are here: www.culturedatewithdublin8.ie/whats-on/tou...
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We're celebrating the beginning of 2025 Culture Date with Dublin 8!
Our lecture today is booked out but we have a few places left on our tours on Thursday 8 May and Friday 9 May. Come see our beautiful Library!
Booking details are here: www.culturedatewithdublin8.ie/whats-on/tou...
It's May Day and the Worth Library is having an Open Day to launch Ms Maeve Killion's exhibition on the works of Sir William Petty in the Worth Library. Our May Book of the Month is his Political Arithmetick - read all about his interesting views on taxation: edwardworthlibrary.ie/book-of-the-...
Looking forward to our Open Day tomorrow! 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.
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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.
Please repost!