From Cromwell to Cholera: A history of Ireland from the pamphlet collection of Charles Haliday.

From October 2011 to Spring 2012

With over 35,000 items spanning almost 300 years, the Haliday Pamphlet Collection covers Irish and British social, economic, cultural and religious history, making this one of the largest and richest Irish interest collections of its kind. The exhibition not only highlights the life of an extraordinary Dublin merchant, social reformer, historian and bibliophile, but displays the vast wealth and scope of material available to researchers of Irish and British history at the RIA.

An illustrated booklet accompanies the exhibition and is available at a mere €5 from the Library or to buy online.

Open: Monday – Friday 10am-5pm.
Free event. Groups by appointment. Otherwise no booking required.

lunchtime lecture series

To find out more about the collection and the role of pamphlets in Irish history come along to our free lunchtime lecture series.

Wednesdays, 1-2pm, Meeting Room, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.

15 February : The second draft of history: the Haliday pamphlets and Daniel O’Connell.
Kevin Whelan, Keogh-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies

22 February : One man and his library : Charles Haliday’s pamphlet collection
Sophie Evans, Library, RIA

29 February : Revolution, Rebellion and Union: Ireland in the 1790s
Dáire Keogh, Saint Patrick’s College, DCU

7 March : 'As wild as anything in romance': Robert Emmet and radical responses to the Union, 1800-1803
Patrick Geoghegan, Trinity College Dublin

14 March : Witnessing the rising of 1641 through the Haliday pamphlets
Nicholas Canny, MRIA

21 March : Troubling times – pamphlets of the ‘Troubles’ at the Linen Hall Library, Belfast
John Killen, Librarian, Linen Hall, Belfast

Tel: 01 6090620
E-mail: libraryria.ie