Recorded  November 14th, 2025.

Dr Jane Carroll
Convivial Patchworks: Collections within the Pollard Collection of Children's Books

Tony Flynn
Stories in Blank Spaces: Revealing biographies of childhood through inscriptions and marginalia found in the Pollard Collection of Children’s Books and Pollard Schoolbook Collection

Dr Sinéad Moriarty
"Weep on then, lost island": imagining Irish landscapes in the Irish history texts of the Pollard School-book collection 1860-1920.

Recorded as part of The Pollard Collection of Children’s Books: A Symposium

This collaboration between the School of English and Trinity College Library brought together a range of experts to discuss the history, significance, and impact of the Collection.

The Collection is one of the most important children's book collections in the world and contains over 12,000 books ranging from the 16thC to the early 20thC amassed over a twenty-year period by Mary ‘Paul’ Pollard, the former Keeper of Early Printed books at Trinity College Library.

Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub