Subject Strengths
The following list of themes and subjects is not intended to be exhaustive and the staff of Research Collections will be happy to guide researchers to other collections which will be of interest to them. This should be read in conjunction with Named Collections: Early Printed Books and Special Collections.
The Library continues to collect historic material and persons who have material which the Library may be interested in acquiring should contact us.
- 1641 Depositions
- 19th- and 20th-Century Irish Political Papers
- Art and Architecture
- Asian, Middle Eastern and Ethiopic Manuscripts
- Book History
- Botany
- Caricature
- Classical Literature
- Deeds
- Drama in English
- Drama in French
- Economic History
- Education
- Engineering
- Family and Estate Papers
- Fiction in English
- Genealogy
- Historical Objects
- Icelandic Manuscripts
- Irish Language Material
- Law
- Maps and Atlases
- Mathematics
- Medical Collections
- Medieval & Early Modern Manuscripts
- Military History
- Modern Irish Language Manuscripts
- Modern Literary Manuscripts in English
- Music
- Papyri
- Philosophy
- Photographs
- Poetry in English
- Political History
- Private Presses
- Rebellions
- Registers of Papal Letters and Records of the Holy Office
- Science and Nature
- Social History
- Theology and Ecclesiastical History
- Travel, Exploration and Antiquarianism
- Trinity College Dublin Archives
- World Wars