Pamphlets

There are over 12,000 pamphlets in bound volumes, principally from the 18th and 19th centuries, and mostly published in Ireland or England. They cover a wide range of topical and controversial issues:  writers reacting to government policy, verse and political satire, parliamentary speeches, comic operas, charity sermons, associations for improving society, inventions, agricultural innovation, accounts of military expeditions, art exhibitions and medical theories; with advice on everything from mangel-wurzels to the perils of drink.

• Catalogue

Further information

• WOODS, Penelope: ‘The pamphlets considered’ in Agnes Neligan (ed.), Maynooth library
  treasures  (Dublin, 1995), pp. 148-66