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Exploring our Hidden History TogetherSeptember 3, 2021
Help us reach our £1,000,000 target!September 1, 2021
Vacancy: Curatorial Research FellowAugust 2, 2021
Gift : Medal for 1789 Opening Armagh ObservatoryJuly 19, 2021
Exhibition on Silver and GoldJune 29, 2021
Local TreasuresJune 11, 2021

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2021 (23)

03/09 | Exploring our Hidden History Together
01/09 | Help us reach our £1,000,000 target!
02/08 | Vacancy: Curatorial Research Fellow
19/07 | Gift : Medal for 1789 Opening Armagh Observatory
29/06 | Exhibition on Silver and Gold
11/06 | Local Treasures
23/05 | We’re Good To Go – 2021
31/03 | 10th Anniversary No 5
22/03 | Videos for Lockdown : 250th Anniversary Armagh Robinson Library
17/03 | Videos for Lockdown : Morning on the Hill
14/03 | Science Festival Videos
10/03 | Online Event : Religion and Science
09/03 | Videos for Lockdown : Storytelling
04/03 | Amazing Animals : an online family event
03/03 | Videos for Lockdown : Music
02/03 | Tree-planting Ceremony for Library’s 250th Anniversary
24/02 | Videos for Lockdown : Illustrations
18/02 | Videos for Lockdown
15/02 | Lunchtime Lecture Series
13/02 | Playful Museums Festival at 5!
05/02 | Curatorial Research Project begins at Armagh Robinson Library
05/02 | Exceptional closure Covid-19
18/01 | New online exhibition : Mapping History

2020 (13)

15/12 | New Keeper : Canon Shane Forster
14/12 | Christmas Closure
14/12 | Bishops and Buildings book celebrates Armagh’s rich built heritage
09/12 | WE’RE GOOD TO GO!
29/10 | The Keeper’s Retirement
14/10 | [CLOSED] Vacancy: Curatorial Research Fellow (Fixed Term Contract)
26/09 | Covid-19 Support for the Library and No 5
18/03 | Letters to The Healing Place of the Soul
16/03 | Exceptional Closure – Covid-19
11/02 | Armagh Robinson Library & No 5 a JAM Card friendly organisation
07/02 | *Closed* Invitation for Expressions of interest: Fundraising Manager
17/01 | Dementia Friendly Yoga
15/01 | Playful Museums Festival with Flowers

2019 (16)

2018 (21)

2017 (26)

11/12 | Library and No 5 Christmas closures 2017
06/12 | Rokeby Lecture 2017 : Jonathan Swift at 350
07/11 | Armagh Georgian Festival 2017
06/10 | Four Stars for another year!
03/10 | Winter Opening Hours No 5
29/09 | Exhibition launch: Swift 350
13/09 | Donation of Memorial Medal to the Library
29/08 | European Heritage Open Days 2017 on the Hill of Armagh
06/07 | Launch of Travel Exhibition
03/07 | Workshop on Gulliver’s Travels in the Library
30/06 | Summer opening hours
07/06 | Summertime at Armagh Robinson Library and No 5!
17/05 | Annual Spring Lecture 2017 Images
15/04 | Annual Spring Lecture 16 May 2017: insights from archaeology, early Irish documentary sources, and experimental archaeology
14/04 | Temporary exhibition: Gems and Books on Gems in Armagh Robinson Library
11/04 | Easter Closure 2017
06/04 | Church of Ireland Spring Conference 2017
01/04 | Armagh Robinson Library launch event
28/03 | Northern Ireland’s oldest library begins a new chapter to secure its future
06/03 | Talk by Moyra Haslett on 18th Century Women Authors, 8 March 2017
15/02 | 2 March: World Book Day 2017 with Liz Weir
27/01 | ‘The Age of Female Authors’: Women Writers in the 18th Century
26/01 | Playful Museums Festival in Armagh
19/01 | Reflections on the Holocaust in Armagh Public Library
19/01 | Hidden Gems: Irish Language Holdings in Armagh Public Library
17/01 | Staged reading of Terence Rattigan‘s The Browning Version, 7th February 2017

2016 (50)

14/12 | Website Offline Weekend 16-19 December
13/12 | Christmas Closure
02/12 | Photographs Georgian Day 2016
17/11 | Rokeby Lecture 2016
17/11 | Playful Museums Baby Café
09/11 | The Hill of Armagh on and around Georgian Day
14/10 | National Poetry Day 2016
08/10 | Winter Opening Hours No 5
22/09 | The Works of William Shakespeare Exhibition
22/09 | Culture Night 2016
15/09 | European Heritage Open Days 2016
12/09 | Culture Night on the Hill of Armagh
24/08 | European Heritage Open Days 2016
24/08 | New Children’s Activity Sheets
24/08 | Growing Academic Connections at Armagh Public Library
11/08 | Exhibition launch ‘Representations of Jews in Irish Literature’
25/07 | Playful Museums launched by Northern Ireland Museums Council
29/06 | Chesapeake Youth Orchestra Flute Ensemble
29/06 | Test opening hours
28/06 | Lecture on Life of Sir Thomas Robinson
22/06 | Inaugural Sir George Quigley Memorial Lecture
18/06 | Visit MA students
06/06 | Saturday opening during summer months
06/06 | Support for Conservation
02/06 | Lecture ‘The Stranger at the Gate’
02/06 | Library visit by Heritage Lottery Fund
27/05 | Retirement Mark Bailey
27/05 | Library placement Lisa Mansbridge
26/05 | Food and Drink Exhibit
26/05 | The Gregg Legacy Project
17/05 | Japan and Gulliver’s Travels
28/04 | Church of Ireland Historical Society’s Spring Conference 2016
28/04 | Armagh Public Library Gains Heritage Lottery Fund Support
21/04 | Book Launch : On the Hill of Armagh – In and Around the Cathedral
13/04 | Visit American Trust for the British Library
04/04 | Summer opening hours – No 5
24/03 | Niall de Burca storytelling session for schools
17/03 | Book Launch of On the Hill of Armagh. In and Around the Cathedral
17/03 | Family History Fair
09/03 | Digging Up Your Roots Family History Fair
03/03 | Saint Patrick’s Day – Afternoon on the Hill
29/02 | Story-telling with Niall de Burca
26/02 | First Morning on the Hill of 2016
09/02 | Armagh Promotional Film
09/02 | World Book Day – Reading by Daragh Carville
04/02 | Coins and Chronicles Exhibition
02/02 | Visit F.E. McWilliams Gallery
02/02 | Video recording Mark Ferguson Band
29/01 | Tri-Museum Visit Armagh
27/01 | Visit US Consul General

2015 (42)

01/12 | Winter opening hours – No 5
30/11 | Successful Georgian Day 2015
23/11 | Georgian Day 2015 on the Hill of Armagh
10/11 | Rokeby Lecture 2015
17/10 | National Poetry Day 2015
08/10 | Launch Music Exhibition
23/09 | The Library and No 5 retain Four-Star Grade!
21/09 | Culture Night 2015
21/09 | Library volunteer Andrew Hamilton
18/09 | The City Chapter Celebrates National Poetry Day
18/09 | 2015 European Heritage Open Days
14/09 | Armagh Culture Night
28/08 | European Heritage Open Days on the Hill of Armagh
03/08 | Visit Japanese research group
03/08 | Summer placement Clare Fegan
26/07 | British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference
25/06 | Summer Placement Adam Berry
24/06 | Gregg Papers Research
17/06 | Visit Benedictine Community
16/06 | Promotional Video by the AmmA Centre
16/06 | Re-issue Library Card
27/05 | Library internship Shannon Devlin
18/05 | Visit QUB MA students
07/05 | Evening opening for Synod members and friends
07/05 | Bookplates in Armagh Public Library
07/05 | A Glimpse into Brian Boru’s World
30/04 | World Book Night Giveaway in Armagh
30/04 | Church of Ireland Historical Society Spring Conference 2015
13/04 | Brian Boru Festival
27/03 | A Glimpse into Brian Ború’s world on the Hill of Armagh
19/03 | Succesful visit of “The Storytellin’ Man and the Songstress”
18/03 | Library and No 5 Easter closure
13/03 | World Book Day 2015
13/03 | Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for the Republic of Ireland visits the Library
13/03 | Ulster Architectural Heritage Society / Irish Georgian Society Summer School
02/03 | Story and Song in Armagh Public Library
02/03 | St Patrick’s Day’s on the Hill of Armagh
20/02 | World Book Day in Armagh
17/02 | Then Sings My Soul – Episode 2
09/02 | Armagh Matters on marbled paper exhibition
27/01 | Brought to book
21/01 | Then Sings my Soul

2014 (36)

18/12 | Minister for Education visits the Library
17/12 | Georgian Day through the lens of Dungannon Cookstown Camera Club
11/12 | Visit Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for the Republic of Ireland
04/12 | Georgian Day
04/12 | Rokeby Lecture
04/12 | Display cabinets taken to new heights
14/11 | Georgian Day on the Hill of Armagh
14/11 | Georgian Day: The First ‘Rokeby Lecture’
13/11 | Library information leaflet translated into braille
10/11 | Paper Marbling
06/11 | Exhibition on marbled papers
06/10 | Visit to the Library by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs Welby
06/10 | Culture night 2014
06/10 | The Library and No 5 retain four star grade!
19/09 | Programme Culture Night on the Hill of Armagh
19/09 | Successful EHOD 2014 on the Hill of Armagh
05/09 | Culture Night on the Hill of Armagh
28/08 | European Heritage Open Days on the Hill of Armagh
15/08 | Library Wedding Bells
30/07 | Welcome for President Higgins
18/06 | Main catalogue
12/06 | The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Conference for 2014
15/05 | Opening Up the Library’s Print Collection
14/05 | The Waking of Brian Boru
16/04 | Library internship Ben Argue
10/04 | The Church Of Ireland Historical Society’s Spring Meeting
08/04 | Opening and closures over Easter
07/04 | The Hill of Armagh and the Giro d’Italia
06/04 | Drelincourt School’s ‘Morning on the Hill’ Visit
31/03 | Best wishes to Greer Ramsey
28/03 | ‘The Waking of Brian Boru: Performance Workshop’
17/03 | The City Chapter celebrates World Book Day in Armagh
06/03 | St Patrick’s Day 2014
19/02 | Care of Conor’s Costume Designs
19/02 | Conservation Book of Hours
30/01 | ‘The Waking of Brian Boru’ project launch

2013 (64)

22/12 | Book launch by Iggy McGovern
22/12 | Morning on the Hill with Armstrong Primary School
13/12 | Exhibit Book of Armagh
05/12 | Talk ‘Richard Robinson’s Famous Cousin: Elizabeth Montagu’
03/12 | Book launch on 11 December 2013: ‘A Mystic Dream of 4’ by Dr Iggy McGovern
28/11 | Stars in our eyes! Armagh Public Library and No 5 retain 4 star grade
28/11 | Armagh Georgian Day, 30 November 2013
27/11 | Public talk on 28 November 2013: ‘Richard Robinson’s Famous Cousin: Elizabeth Montagu’
18/11 | Library venue for William Kennedy Piping Festival events
13/11 | Project “Raising Collection Awareness and Preserving History in Armagh” concluded
04/11 | 21st century dentistry methods in 18th century library
28/10 | Northern Ireland Museums Council supports ‘Morning on the Hill’ for Key Stage 2
24/10 | Book launch ‘Funerary Monuments and Memorials in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh’
16/10 | Library makes headlines in South Tirol
16/10 | Public lecture ‘Anglican Book Collectors in Ireland’
10/10 | Poetry Day
02/10 | Donation in Ladin
25/09 | Lecture : Anglican Book Collectors in Ireland
23/09 | National Poetry Day Reading
22/09 | A Successful Culture Night 2013
19/09 | Culture Night in Armagh
19/09 | Art installation Jonny McEwen
18/09 | Visit to the Hill of Armagh by Council of Europe Representative
16/09 | EHOD 2013
13/09 | Book sale
06/09 | Strengthened Academic Connections at Armagh Public Library
05/09 | European Heritage Open Days 2013
04/09 | Thanks to Jane McKibbin
28/08 | Family Research
23/08 | Afternoon on the Hill with the Charles Wood Boys’ Choir
14/08 | European Heritage Open Days 2013
08/08 | Good Morning Ulster
30/07 | Your place and mine
30/07 | Book launch Nualla Reilly
19/07 | Fire and Police Services Exhibit
01/07 | Thanks and Good Wishes to Brian Johnston
27/06 | Library internship Maeve Graham
21/06 | Morning on the Hill with St Joseph’s Boys’ High School
12/06 | Morning on the Hill with St Malachy’s Primary School
06/06 | Visit from graduates University of Kentucky
31/05 | Book Launch ‘The Station Sergeant’
23/05 | Fundraiser results
10/05 | Marathon fundraiser update
08/05 | Visit by Mullabrack Ladies’ Group
07/05 | Marathon challenge completed!
03/05 | Book Launch: John McAllister’s ‘The Station Sergeant’
26/04 | Marathon Fundraiser: money raised so far
26/04 | Silver Maces
26/04 | Library Volunteers
25/04 | The City Chapter’s Contribution to World Book Night 2013
25/04 | Conference of the Church of Ireland Historical Society
18/04 | Marathon fundraiser!
15/04 | In memoriam
15/04 | Library closure
29/03 | Opening and closures over Easter
22/03 | Presentation to Rachel McCance
21/03 | St Patrick’s Day Stargazing at No 5
20/03 | New index to late 18th century newspapers made available
15/03 | No 5 nominated for a National Lottery Award!
06/03 | St Patrick’s Day events
13/02 | Prize Winner EHOD Competition
13/02 | Ulster semi-final debating competition
01/02 | Visit MA Students
30/01 | New website launch

2012 (25)

28/11 | Rehearsed Reading of ‘Observatory’
19/11 | Georgian Buildings open for Georgian Day
09/11 | Launch of Joint Funding Project
01/11 | Armagh Public Library and Registry Museum awarded Four Stars
03/10 | The Public Catalogue Foundation
21/09 | Gregg Exhibition Opening
12/09 | European Heritage Open Days a great success
05/09 | Swift Book Sale
06/07 | Book launch by Anne Doughty
27/06 | 2012 Morning on the Hill
16/06 | International symposium Processes of Religious Acculturation in the (very) long Fifteenth Century
06/06 | Advance Notice for the 2012 European Heritage Open Days
15/05 | The Church of Ireland Historical Society in Armagh
02/05 | 2012 World Book Night for Armagh
02/05 | Library featured in prize winning photograph at Armagh County Museum
18/04 | Media Visit to the Library and No 5
28/03 | The Museum Heritage Online Readers’ Awards 2012
21/03 | Family history resources
12/03 | St Patrick’s Day Events, Armagh 2012
09/03 | The Ulster Schools’ Semi-Final Debate
09/03 | Armagh Mayor’s Awards for 2012
20/02 | NITB Great Days Out Fair for 2012
20/02 | Morning on the Hill 2012
05/01 | Moira Friendship Group in ‘Afternoon on the Hill of Armagh’
05/01 | Visit Finnish ambassadors

2011 (32)

09/12 | Illuminated manuscripts
08/12 | Oldest printed books
07/12 | Gulliver’s Travels
07/12 | Succesful Georgian Day for Library and No 5
06/12 | Beresford Collection
05/12 | French Flag
04/12 | Conor Drawings
03/12 | Prints
18/11 | Press release Armagh Georgian Day
24/10 | New Keeper for Armagh Public Library
24/10 | Antiques Roadtrip Autumn Series
24/10 | William Kennedy Piping Festival 2011
24/10 | Georgian Day 2011
26/09 | Donation: Freemason Collection
12/09 | European Heritage Open Days – 10 and 11 September 2011
28/06 | Armagh Heritage Day 2011
28/06 | CD Launch in Armagh Public Library
28/06 | Visit by the Northern Ireland Museums Council
01/06 | Promotional banner Library
12/05 | Welcome to No 5
11/05 | Music concert in Library
11/05 | Church of Ireland Historical Society Meeting
11/04 | Advance notice for the 2011 European Heritage Open Days
11/04 | Recent group visits
06/04 | Morning on the Hill for 2011
06/04 | Donation: Codex Sinaiticus
05/04 | Think Tourism NI
05/04 | World Book Day 2011
05/04 | St Patrick’s Day – Afternoon on the Hill
16/03 | New Website Address
16/03 | New Online Catalogue
08/03 | Official Opening of No 5

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