Browse our past and present exhibitions, held in the Library from 2013 onwards! Click the Title to read more.
Object photography by Ian Maginess and Brian Rutledge, atlas and map scans by Mallon Technology.
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Judging a Book by its Cover : Decorative Bookbinding Styles
July-December 2024
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Camelids
February – June 2024
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The History of Fishing around the British Isles
September-November 2022
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Written by Hand : Manuscripts in Armagh Robinson Library
December 2022-June 2023
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Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
July 2023 -January 2024
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Thomas Cooley. An Architectural Legacy
Permanent
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Mannerist Prints from the Rokeby Collection
November-December 2021
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Archbishop Richard Robinson
February-April 2022
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A Spotlight on the Beresford Collection
May – August 2022
![Launch of the exhibition on If We Don’t Stand up for Children, Then We Don’t Stand up for Much : 30th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Armagh Robinson Library](https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/UNCRC-30th-2.jpg)
30th Anniversary of the UN convention of the Rights of the Child
December 2019-February 2020
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Botany: the Science of Beauty
March-December 2020
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Silver and Gold
June – November 2021
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Mathematical Texts from the 17th and 18th Centuries
July-September 2018
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Theatre in the 18th Century
October 2018-February 2019
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The Legacy of Aesop’s fables
March-June 2019
![Launch of the exhibition First Past the Post : Outdoor Sports in Armagh in Armagh Robinson Library](https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Sports-exhibition-1.jpg)
Outdoor sports in Armagh
July – November 2019
![Launch of the exhibition Of All the Pleasures in the World, Travell is [...] the Sweetest and Most Delightfull : Travel Literature in Armagh Robinson Library](https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Travel-exhibition-1-1280x832-scaled.jpg)
Travel Literature in Armagh Robinson Library
July-September 2017
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350th Anniversary of Swift’s Birth
October-December 2017
![Launch of the exhibition The Healing Place of the Soul : Medical Texts in Armagh Robinson Library](https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18.1.2018-b.jpg)
Medical texts in Armagh Robinson Library
January-March 2018
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Astronomical texts in Armagh Robinson Library
April – June 2018
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Representation of Jews in Irish Literature
August 2016
![Launch of the exhibition The Works of William Shakespeare : the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, at Armagh Robinson Library](https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ShakespeareLaunch-scaled.jpg)
The Works of William Shakespeare
September-December 2016
![Launch of the exhibition Women Writers in the 18th Century in Armagh Robinson Library](https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Armagh-Public-Library-Public-Talk-1.jpg)
Women Writers in the 18th Century
January-March 2017
![Launch of the exhibition Gems and Gems Literature in Armagh Robinson Library](https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Gems-in-Robinson-Library-1-scaled.jpg)
Gems and Gem Literature in Armagh Robinson Library
April – June 2017
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Choir Music in Armagh Public Library
October-December 2015
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Numismatics in Armagh Public Library
February-April 2016
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Food and Drink in Northern Ireland
May – July 2016
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To the Rescue!
August 2013
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The Book of Armagh
December 2013-January 2014
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J.A.F Gregg, Archbishop of Armagh
September 2012-October 2014
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Marbled papers
November 2014 – April 2015