Georgian & Victorian · event 1 of 13

1707

Marsh’s Library opens. The first public library in Ireland opens beside St Patrick’s Cathedral, with dark oak stalls, chained books and wired alcoves in which readers were locked with rare volumes. It survives entirely unaltered.

The Georgian & Victorian era

  1. 1707
  2. 1745
  3. 1759
  4. 1782
  5. 1791
  6. 1798
  7. 1 January 1801
  8. 1803
  9. 1845
  10. 1854
  11. 1904
  12. 16 June 1904
  13. 1913

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