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Based in five locations at University College Dublin, we provide access to a large range of print and electronic resources, and services to support your studies.
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UCD Library is very pleased to see that @iua-official.bsky.social has signed this 'Statement on the Four Digital Rights of Memory Institutions'.

@ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdarchives.bsky.social @ucddigitallibrary.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social
internetarchive.eu Internet Archive Europe @internetarchive.eu · 6d
!!! Three more organisations have joined the global #OurFutureMemory movement!
* @iua-official.bsky.social Librarians’ Group (IUALG)
* Boston Library Consortium
* @libraryfutures.bsky.social
🔗 Full announcement: www.internetarchive.eu/2025/11/21/t...
🔗 Promote the campaign: ourfuturememory.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Looking for your next great read? The 2026 Dublin Literary Award nominations offer plenty to choose from! 📖✨

With 69 novels selected by libraries in 36 countries, this year’s list spans continents, languages and genres.

Browse the list here: dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/...
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Spotlight on the five Irish authors nominated for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award:

✨ Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Two brothers in Dublin grieve in opposite ways: Peter, medicated and unravelling beneath composure, and Ivan, withdrawn and drawn into an intense new relationship.

🧵 1/5
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Join UCD Library's Research Data Librarian on 4 Dec. for an hour-long online training session, with a live demo of using DMPonline to create a #DataManagementPlan.
This training session is suitable for those looking for help navigating DMPonline.

Register for this online session at bit.ly/dmp4dec.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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UCD Library extends its deepest condolences to the family of poet & activist Margaretta D’Arcy, who passed away on Sunday.
She visited the Special Collections Reading Room in 2018 to read for the Irish Poetry Reading Archive.
Find her reading love letters to her husband on the IPRA YouTube channel.
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Join UCD Library's Research Data Librarian on 4 Dec. for an hour-long online training session, with a live demo of using DMPonline to create a #DataManagementPlan.
This training session is suitable for those looking for help navigating DMPonline.

Register for this online session at bit.ly/dmp4dec.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Robert Erskine Childers was executed #OTD 1922. Letter from Molly Childers to Eamon de Valera following her husband’s execution that morning beginning “Erskine was executed this morning at 7 o’clock.”
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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In the latest UCD #CulturalHeritage Collections blog post, Éamonn Ó hAdhmaill of @bealoideasucd.bsky.social writes about the Irish language festival Oireachtas na Samhna & the work the NFC does promoting their invaluable resources to the community.
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Oireachtas na Samhna
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Join UCD Library's Research Data Librarian on 4 Dec. for an hour-long online training session, with a live demo of using DMPonline to create a #DataManagementPlan.
This training session is suitable for those looking for help navigating DMPonline.

Register for this online session at bit.ly/dmp4dec.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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#BloodySunday took place #OTD 1920. Between 1948 and 1954, Ernie O'Malley interviewed c.400 of his revolutionary colleagues, some of them IRA men who were involved in the killings of the British intelligence officers that day. Here Matty MacDonald describes the killing of Captain G.T. Baggally. 1/2
“We knocked at the front door a maid came along have a letter from the Castle will you deliver this not to Captain Bagelly a one legged man. The maid pointing and in we went. We tapped at the door, opened it and walked in. There were 3 of us. Bagelly was in bed. Lemass, Jimmy and I. I was kind of scared. ‘Captain Bagelly?’ ‘That’s my name.’ ‘I suppose you know what we came for. We came for you.’ He was the Judge Advocate General. ‘I suppose you’ve come for my guns’ he said. One of us, Jimmy Brennan hid it under the bed and he reached behind for it… Slugs and a little more was our reply. ‘Get up.’ He was in pyjamas. Lemass and Jimmy and I fired 2 in the head from the 3 guns. I heard maids screaming afterwards but I was told she was alright. On the ground floor was Jack Foley. A fellow came out with a towel in pyjamas for a bath and Jack stuck him up and he was balls naked. Thinking he was a lodger but he was another British army officer and how we didn’t know about him, we hadn’t any orders about him.” Matty MacDonald, Ernie O’Malley Notebooks, UCDA P17b/105
November 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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In the latest UCD #CulturalHeritage Collections blog post, Éamonn Ó hAdhmaill of @bealoideasucd.bsky.social writes about the Irish language festival Oireachtas na Samhna & the work the NFC does promoting their invaluable resources to the community.
ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2025/11/20/o...
Oireachtas na Samhna
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Sa bhlag is déanaí de chuid #CulturalHeritage, scríobhann Éamonn Ó hAdhmaill @bealoideasucd.bsky.social faoi fhéile chultúrtha na Gaeilge, Oireachtas na Samhna, agus an obair ríthábhachtach atá ar bun ag Cnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann a n-acmhainní luachmhara a chur chun cinn.
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Oireachtas na Samhna
November 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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It’s here! The 2026 Dublin Literary Award Nominated Titles are out! ✨📚

69 novels nominated by 80 libraries from 36 countries, including 5 Irish authors & 30 translated works in 17 languages.

Explore the full list here: dublinliteraryaward.ie/features/new...

#DublinLitAward #DLA2026
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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The Intellectual Disability Supplement to The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (IDS-TILDA), Wave 5, 2023, is now available on Dataverse: doi.org/10.7929/ISSDA/V3MJ4V.

Request via process outlined in terms tab:
#IrishData #SocialScience #DataArchive
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Intellectual Disability Supplement to The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (IDS-TILDA), Wave 5, 2023
The Intellectual Disability Supplement to The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (IDS-TILDA), Wave 5, 2023, SN: 0073-07 is now available on ISSDA Dataverse to request.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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This is great news! 📈
From the Library of Things & The Loop repair café to incorporating #sustainability into our JJL redevelopment projects, see libguides.ucd.ie/green to discover the initiatives UCD Library is contributing to the effort here at UCD.💚
@ucdsustainability.bsky.social
ucddublin.bsky.social University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 9d
💙💛 University College Dublin is ranked 47th in the world and 27th in Europe in the 2026 QS World University Rankings for Sustainability.
www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...
UCD ranked among top 50 universities in the world for Sustainability
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November 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Attend our joint seminar tomorrow @ucdresearch.bsky.social

Engagement for Research Impact
12th Nov
2.30pm
Link 3, James Joyce Library

This session will help you understand the complex area of research impact, incl. how to measure your impact within academia & more.

Register👉 bit.ly/engage1211
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November 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Padraig Pearse, Irish revolutionary, and one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rebellion, was born #OTD 1879.

This studio portrait of Patrick Pearse aged 5 was given to Éamon de Valera in 1967 by Máire and [Madeline] Macken.
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Attend our joint seminar tomorrow @ucdresearch.bsky.social

Engagement for Research Impact
12th Nov
2.30pm
Link 3, James Joyce Library

This session will help you understand the complex area of research impact, incl. how to measure your impact within academia & more.

Register👉 bit.ly/engage1211
White and grey graphic with abstract design for UCD Library and UCD Research November 12 joint seminar on engagement for research impact.
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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For the month of November our Library Spotlight shines on books that have banned over the years, from James Joyce's 'Ulysses' to Marjane Satrapi's 'Persepolis'.

See the book display in the JJL, the related UCD Special Collections items display, and our online guide: libguides.ucd.ie/spotlight/ba...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Bígí linn amárach ar champas UCD Belfield, beidh deis buaileadh le mjc léinn Theach na Gaeilge ó gach dámh de chuid na hollscoile.
@ucdphilosophy.bsky.social @ucdlibrary.bsky.social @ucdglobal.bsky.social @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social @ucdscoilglcb.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Join Dr Dorota Kolbuk on 14 Nov as she shows how #CitizenScience can support marine & coastal research efforts.
Topics incl. how to get involved in coastal citizen science & the benefits these activities bring to environmental monitoring & community engagement.

Register at forms.gle/CpNWS3SEFtzi...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
ucdlibrary.bsky.social
For the month of November our Library Spotlight shines on books that have banned over the years, from James Joyce's 'Ulysses' to Marjane Satrapi's 'Persepolis'.

See the book display in the JJL, the related UCD Special Collections items display, and our online guide: libguides.ucd.ie/spotlight/ba...
Dark graphic with flames and book covers for UCD Library's 'Banned Books' display.
November 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Today is #WDPD25 asking "Why Preserve?" UCD Digital Preservation Librarian Niamh Murphy is (virtually) at this yr's @ipres2025.bsky.social in Wellington, NZ. The weaving of Māori tradition into the conference is a reminder that #digitalpreservation is all about people.

#WorldDigitalPreservationDay
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November 6, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Join Dr Dorota Kolbuk on 14 Nov as she shows how #CitizenScience can support marine & coastal research efforts.
Topics incl. how to get involved in coastal citizen science & the benefits these activities bring to environmental monitoring & community engagement.

Register at forms.gle/CpNWS3SEFtzi...
A coastal scene showing beachcombers looking down on tidal pools with boats and a town in the background.
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Pleased to post that ISSDA has uploaded the recording of their Dataverse Demonstration to their Youtube channel.

View the recording here: youtu.be/nOgZNPwD564?...

@ucdlibrary.bsky.social @researchireland.ie
#IrishData #SocialScience #DataArchive #Dataverse
New ISSDA training on Youtube
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November 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM