Dr Audrey Whitty wants to ‘showcase our beautiful building, introduce our national collections and meet visitors face to face’
On June 1st, Dr Whitty will lead the first of her monthly guided tours of the library, to “showcase our beautiful building, introduce our national collections and meet visitors face to face”. The tours underline for Whitty the way that the library’s “tradition of welcome, engagement and access underpins everything we do”.
Just off the main hall is the wood-panelled former director’s office, which now connects the original building to more recent additions, including itsThese buildings were originally heated by fires, “a terrifying prospect in a library. It’s no wonder the librarian’s last duties were to tour the building with the housekeeper and ensure the fires were damped down,” Whitty says.
The same Dobbyn & Son clock ticks, but the desks were introduced only in the 1920s and 1930s; the originals were bigger, and shared, but then abandoned because – shh! – they encouraged talking.Dublin was poorly served by public libraries before the National Library opened. It was soon always full.
“It’s just astounding that a country this size has those incredible literary figures. I’m not just talking about the men. Female Irish writers, particularly since the mid-20th century, have been astounding in terms of the quality of their work: Edna O’Brien, Kate O’Brien, Maria Edgeworth. We have the digital archive of Marian Keyes. Then you look at contemporary writing, people like Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Claire Keegan.
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