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The Newly Restored Printing House Opens with an Exhibition on the Yeats Sisters & Irish Design

01/30/2026

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The exhibition, entitled ‘The Yeats Sisters & Irish Design’, celebrates the work and legacy of Elizabeth and Susan (Lily) Yeats. Founders and directors of Cuala Industries (1908-1940), they were nationally and internationally recognised as leading figures in the Arts and Crafts movement.

The Printing Houseis the third oldest building on the campus of Trinity College Dublin. The building housed Ireland’s oldest printing and publishing house, Dublin University Press until 1976. The first publication of Dublin University Press was Plato’s Dialogues in 1738. It also housed the Cuala printing press for a period of time.

Cuala Industries was a cultural focal point in early 20th century Ireland. Over the course of its history many of Ireland’s leading writers and artists were part of its creative stable.

On display are photographs and other archival material giving a flavour of the working lives of the Cuala women as well as examples of the prints and needlecraft produced by the business. The exhibition is in collaboration with the Department of Foreign Affairs. All are welcome to this free exhibition, please call into the Printing House between 10am-4pm Monday-Friday.

The Cuala Press is part of the Virtual Trinity Library initiative, and this display coincides with a loan of Cuala Press material by the Library to Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art for an exhibition on Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts.

On Tuesday, 3 February (6pm), the Trinity Long Room Hub will host a discussion highlighting Trinity's collaboration with Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art spring 2026 exhibition, "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts". The discussion will also address the Cuala Press archives and other Yeats collections held by both universities. \ \ A short panel presentations will be given by Angela Griffith, Principal Investigator of Trinity's Cuala Press Project, along with TRIARC Visiting Research Fellow Billy Shortall, who will speak on how Cuala Press prints aimed to cultivate a positive image of Ireland. Trinity professor of English Tom Walker will speak on W.B. Yeats and the visual and applied arts. Boston College's Burns Librarian Christian Dupont will provide an overview of the Boston College exhibition and discuss Lily Yeats's embroidered Stations of the Cross displayed at the 1932 Eucharistic Congress. Laura Shanahan, Head of Research Collections at the Library of Trinity College Dublin, will moderate the discussion among panellists and the audience.

New Library Catalogue Relaunch: Update 9-01-26

01/09/2026

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We are delighted to confirm that the new 'Library catalogue' will be officially re-launched on Monday 12 January 2026. The current Library catalogue, Stella Search, will remain temporarily available via a link under the Library home page search box up to Thursday 12 February, 2026, at which point it will be fully removed and switched off.

There will then be two main search platforms available via the Library website home page:

Library Catalogue: for Library holdings, such as print books, e-books, journal and e-journal titles, as well as manuscripts and archives;
Articles and More: for subscribed e-resources and database content, such as full-text e-journal articles and some e-books.

The content available via the 'articles and more' platform has been streamlined and populated afresh with our subscribed databases and packages.

Check out the Library Guide on The New Library Discovery Platforms for further details including FAQs.