Further, under the terms of Irish copyright law (most recently the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000), the British Library is entitled to automatically receive a free copy of every book published in Ireland, alongside the National Library of Ireland, the Trinity College Library at Dublin, the library of the University of Limerick, the library of Dublin City University and the libraries of the four constituent universities of the National University of Ireland.
Vidare, enligt bestämmelserna i irländsk upphovsrättslagstiftning (mest nyligen Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000), har British Library rätt att automatiskt få ett kostnadsfritt exemplar av varje bok som publiceras i Republiken Irland, vid sidan av National Library of Ireland, Trinity College Library i Dublin, Limericks universitetsbibliotek, biblioteket vid Dublin City University och biblioteken vid de fyra konstituerande universiteten inom National University of Ireland.