William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the famous Dublin Abbey Theatre. Recently the Linen Hall’s education and outreach officer devised the activity plan below to introduce…...
Due to Coronavirus Linen Hall Library Will Close To Public from Midnight 17 March
Given the rapidly evolving situation of Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Linen Hall Library will be closed to the public from midnight tonight, Tuesday 17 March, until further notice. We will continue to conduct as much of our work as possible remotely, and will post any further developments regarding our situation on…...
Linen Hall Library COVID-19 Statement
Linen Hall Library statement regarding the COVID-19 situation: The Linen Hall Library’s priority is always the safety of our staff and visitors. The Library currently remains open as normal, but we are closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation. We are in communication with and taking advice from the appropriate authorities. If…...
Linen Hall Job Opportunity for Library Assistant
Important message regarding this job vacancy. We would like to thank those applicants who have applied for this position. Given the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, we will not be moving forward with this recruitment at this time. The Linen Hall Library currently has a job vacancy for a Library Assistant.…...
UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage Visit to the Linen Hall Library on 18 March Postponed
The Simon Armitage/Leontia Flynn Library Tour event on Wednesday 18 March has been postponed until further notice. For Simon Armitage’s full statement go to: https://www.simonarmitage.com/the-laureates-library-tour/ For the updated Linen Hall Library statement regarding Coronavirus and its impact on Library services and events, please go to: https://linenhall.com/linen-hall-library-coronavirus-covid-19-statement-update-16-march/...
March Marks International Women’s Day and World Book Day at the Linen Hall Library
On 5th March the Linen Hall celebrates World Book Day with a reading by actress Roma Tomelty from Irish writer Molly Keane’s anthology Molly Keane’s Ireland, and on 10th March to mark International Women’s Day we illuminate Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager Lady Gregory. Also scheduled are our regular…...
Library Announces Six Job Opportunities for ‘extraOrdinarywomen’ Project
The Linen Hall Library is excited to announce six new job opportunities for the extraOrdinarywomen project. extraOrdinarywomen is a major undertaking that will make tens of thousands of pages and images from a selection of the Library’s world-renowned archives accessible online for the very first time. The project will focus…...
Linen Hall Library’s Heritage Women’s Project Receives £377,600 From The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Others
‘Women’s history needs to be told accurately and correctly and it needs to be celebrated, for the women that we were, the women that we’ve become because of those women, and the women that our children become because of the generation before.’* The extraORDINARYwomen project is a major undertaking that…...
Linen Hall Raises the Curtain on its Phenomenal Theatre Archive in February Exhibition
The theatre’s powerful capacity to reflect societal changes is central to the Linen Hall’s February exhibition State of Play: The Theatre and Cultural Identity in 20th Century Ulster launching on 5 February. Many items from the Library’s renowned Theatre and Performing Arts Archive will be on display. February also features…...
