The RCB Library will close for Christmas on Wednesday 23rd December at 5pm.
The following registers of Dublin parishes and chaplaincies have been transferred to the National Archives for digitization and will be unavailable to researchers for approximately four weeks
Some Dublin parish registers will be unavailable to researchers for approximately four weeks while they are digitized in the National Archives.
Mr Patrick Quinn, from Co. Galway has, through the good offices of the National Museum of Ireland, deposited on indefinite loan in the RCB Library, a notebook of the renowned Cork antiquary, Richard Caulfield (1823-87), who was Librarian of Queen’s College, Cork.
Last Sunday, after Evensong in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, the Biishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Paul Colton, launched the twelfth volume in the RCB Library’s parish register series.
In response to a local initiative the RCB Library has had the Red Book of Ossory digitized.
Two students, Christiane Arndt and Kristin Laue, from the archives school in the University of Potsdam, Germany, recently visited the RCB Library.
The Representative Church Body Library has published its late night opening schedule for the coming academic term, 2008-2009.
At a recent auction of books, maps and manuscripts in Bonhams sale rooms in London, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, was successful in securing an important manuscript map of part of the lands of the vicars choral of St Patrick’s in the eighteenth century.