The National Library of Ireland was established by the Dublin Science and Art Museum Act, 1877 and it first opened its doors on 29th August 1890.
The following is a list of the Directors of the Library:
William Archer 1878-1895
Thomas W. Lyster 1895 -1920
Robert Lloyd Praeger 1920-1924
Richard Irvine Best 1924-1940
Richard J. Hayes 1940- 1967
Patrick Henchy 1967-1976
Alf MacLochlainn 1976–1982
Michael Hewson 1982-1988
Patricia Donlon 1989 - 1997
Seán Cromien 1997
Brendan O Donoghue 1997 - 2003
Aongus Ó hAonghusa 2003 - 2009
Fiona Ross 2010 - 2014
Sandra Collins 2015 -
The National Library is also a stop on the Bloomsday Tours which celebrate James Joyce's novel Ulysses. The novel follows the journey of Leopold Bloom across Dublin from Sandycove to Howth Head on a single day, the 16th of June 1904. On his travels, Bloom visits the National Library on Kildare Street to look up an old copy of an ad that he is trying to place. This occurs in Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis.
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