Heritage and History

Reading Room

Welcome to Dublin City Library and Archive!

We hope that you enjoy your visit and get the maximum benefit from your time with us. The research Reading Room is open from 10am to 8pm Monday to Thursday and from 10am to 5pm on Friday and Saturday.

Robert EmmetEmmet and Devlin Lecture Lecture: Monday 15th March
'Revisiting Emmet’s Dublin through the collections of Dublin City Public Libraries' with Dr. Máire Kennedy

Saint Francis Xavier Church, Francis StreetListen to the 13th Annual Sir John T. Gilbert Lecture: 'Commodious Temples: Catholic church building in nineteenth-century Dublin' by Brendan Grimes

Dublin's civic buildings in the early modern periodWe are delighted to announce a new publication Colm Lennon's 'Dublin civic buildings in the early modern period', the twelfth annual lecture in the Gilbert Lecture Series is now available.

ALSO: ' Sir John T. Gilbert Commemorative Lectures 1998 - 2007'. To celebrate 10 years of Gilbert Lectures the first ten lectures have been published in this new collection

North Strand Bombings ExhibitionNorth Strand Bombing Oral History website 

Listen to first hand accounts of the North Strand and Donore Avenue Bombings during the World War II.

 
Audio downloadsListen to Dublin City Public Libraries' Heritage and History lectures and talks on dublinheritage.ie.
 
Irish Newspapers ArchiveAccess the Irish Newspapers Archive from the Reading Room or any branch of Dublin City Public Libraries
 
dublinheritage.iedublinheritage.ie - a resource from Dublin City Public Libraries focusing primarily on databases derived from printed and other historic records.