This room features changing exhibitions several times a year.
The current exhibit, Ink and Imagination, features very special items from the UCD LIbrary Special Collections. More than 500 years of creativity is represented in this exhibition of items – you can see archives that reveal literary work as it was being written, beautiful rare books cherished for many decades, today’s poets reading their own poems – and much more.
As you explore the displays, keep an eye out for very early printed books, manuscripts by Irish writer Edna O’Brien written on hotel notepaper, very special and rare poetry editions, and even a letter from the founding rector of the University, John Henry Newman, who was canonised in 2019.
When you’ve finished exploring this exhibition, continue through the door and across the stairwell to our Riverrun of Language.
