Nabobs, Soldiers and Imperial Service: The Irish in India is Trinity College Library’s latest exhibition.
It explores the experiences of Irish men and women living in India within the wider colonial context. Themes covered include the East India Company; trade and territorial expansion; the Indian Mutiny; Christian missionaries, including the Dublin University mission; the Indian Civil Service; big game hunting; and the road to Independence .
The links with South Asia and Trinity College Dublin are very old, reaching back at least to the establishment of the Chair of Oriental Languages in 1762. The exhibition will detail the links between Trinity, Ireland, Britain and Europe with India, concentrating on the wealth of printed books and other related material from the 19th and early 20th century that is held in the Library.
The exhibition runs from May 28 to October 3 in the Long Room, Trinity College Dublin

The Holocaust Education Trust Ireland and the Embassy of Bulgaria in Ireland, in association with Dublin City Public Libraries invite you to view the exhibition:The Power of Civil Society: The Fate of Jews in Bulgaria during the Holocaust.

The exhibition will be on display in the Central Library, Ilac Centre, Henry Street, Dublin 1 from April 7 – 29 April 2010.

It will be open 6 days a week and viewing for schools is recommended.

This exhibition is accompanied by a DVD Beyond Hitler’s Grasp which tells the story of Bulgarian Jews who were saved from Nazi persecution.

It will be shown from 1-2pm each day or by appointment.

All enquiries to: Open Learning Centre, Central Library Tel: 01 8734333 Email: centrallibrary@dublincity.ie

The Library’s new exhibition, Discover your National Library: Explore, Reflect, Connect provides a unique opportunity for the public to view first-hand a representative selection of the Library’s holdings – the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of Irish documentary material numbering almost eight million items including maps, prints, drawings, manuscripts, photographs, books, newspapers and periodicals.
Throughout, the exhibition makes extensive use of digital media, with special features including a series of screened talks by the Library’s curators describing the significance or importance of certain exhibition items. One of the most popular features is an interactive table using Microsoft Silverlight technology, which enables the visitor to zoom in on images of objects from the collections which can be seen in amazing detail. Images are tagged in such a way that if the visitor finds an item they are particularly interested in, the technology automatically links them to other similar items likely to be of interest.
Discover your National Library opens at 2-3 Kildare Street, Dublin on 20 January 2010. Admission is free.

The National Photographic Archive, Dublin hosted an exhibition of twenty images from the National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin for Culture Night in September this year and the exhibition attracted a great deal of interest.
The exhibition is now available (free of charge apart from transport costs) to libraries and other institutes or bodies who may wish to host it.
This photographic exhibition celebrates the contribution of four Swedish scholars and writers to Irish culture in the first half of the twentieth century. Each of them played a significant role in advancing the study of Irish folklore and ethnology and in cultivating Swedish-Irish relations. All four men and women were also capable photographers, and many of the photographs and correspondence with Irish colleagues are now preserved in the National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin.
The black and white images are mounted and framed and an accompanying catalogue was printed in Irish, English and Swedish.
For further deatils please contact the director of the National Folklore Collection, Ríonach uí Ógáin .

Beware the Jabberwock! an exhibition of books on the animal kingdom in Marsh’s Library was opened by Dr. Martin Mansergh, T.D., Minister of State, on Tuesday June 30 2009.
The title comes from the nonsense poem about odd creatures in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. There are books by famous 16th and 17th-century writers on natural history, covering exotic birds, butterflies and bees, elephants, horses, cats and tigers, reptiles and sea monsters. The exhibition includes many volumes by the Italian writer Ulisse Aldrovandi, whose magnificent work on natural history is regarded as the greatest zoological compendium of the early 17th century.
Other well known early writers on natural history on display in this exhibition are Thomas Moffett, the Comte de Buffon and Gulielmus Rondelet. Rondelet’s ‘Monkfish’ [illustrated] and ‘Bishopfish’ are both illustrated wearing their full clerical attire! Oliver Goldsmith’s Animated Nature is represented in the first Irish edition, published in Dublin in 1777.
The Exhibition is open to the public during the Library’s normal working
hours: Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri.: 9.30–1.00 and 2.00–5.00; Sat.
10.00–1.00. (Closed Tues. & Sun.) It will continue until Spring 2010.