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Culture Night 2022

FRIDAY 23 SEPTEMBER

Come and join us in Academy House on Culture Night 2022 we have lots going on.Visit the Library and learn about our special collections! Come and see medieval Irish manuscripts – the Cathach and Stowe Missal – on display. Learn to write in the early Irish language using the Ogham alphabet. View the exhibition about Madam Dragonfly to look at a selection of rare entomological works from our Cynthia Longfield Roberts Collection. Our Research projects will be showcasing their work with urban maps from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas and collections from the Digital Repository of Ireland.

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More to explore

The Academy has more resources that you can access online, from the digital collections of the Academy library to a variety of online exhibitions, podcasts, videos, blogs and a series of articles uncovering the histories of Grangegorman

Browse the digital collections of the Royal Irish Academy library

Library Digital Collections »

Explore Grangegorman’s Histories with a series of short introductory articles uncovering the histories of Grangegorman.

Explore Grangegorman's Histories »

Academy discourse series bringing thought leaders to the Academy to discuss important contemporary issues.   

Watch lectures from our Discourse series »

Blogs and podcasts providing evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south

ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South »

Our Climate Change and Environmental Sciences Committee regularly publish article discussing climate change.

Climate Change Blog »

Zoë Comyns looks at the collections and library holdings in the Academy to explore how people have written about and observed our natural world over the centuries.

 

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