The Russell Library, named for Charles Russell, one of the historic Maynooth College's most impressive and scholarly nineteenth-century presidents, is located off the western axis of the main cloister in the Pugin-designed complex that forms the core of the south campus.

The library had its origins in the collection of Fr. Andrew Dunne, an early librarian and President if the college, who left his 3000 volumes to the institution on his death in 1823. 

 

This is a conjectural and partial list of librarians

Andrew Dunne 1800-1803, 1810-1823

John O'Hanlon 1843-71

Robert Ffrench Whitehead 1876

William Moran 1932-39

Sean Corkery 1951-73 (first full-time librarian; later parish priest, Aughnacliffe, Co. Longford)

Albert Harrison 1980-82 (later Lbrarian, University of Strathclyde)

Thomas Kabdebo 1983

 

https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/9543/1/LT-Library-2018.pdf

 

A description of the medieval manuscripts in the library is contained in Peter and Angela Lucas's 2014 volume, accessible at 

https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/13753/1/Lucas%20LowRes.pdf