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'Prodigies of learning': Academy women in the nineteenth century
Exhibition exploring the varied worlds of five women selected as Honorary Members of the Academy in the nineteenth century

'"A little remnant of the work of the ancients" 23 N 10: the Book of Ballycummin'
Conference by the Royal Irish Academy Library in partnership with Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad.

'Two girls in silk kimonos': the Gore-Booth sisters, childhood and political development
Dr Sonja Tiernan will give the first lecture in our series 'Sisters' celebrating the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who have made their mark on Irish life.

'A precious boon' in difficult times - Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and her sisters
Dr Margaret Ward will give the second lecture in our series 'Sisters' celebrating the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who have made their mark on Irish life.

'Who will ever say again that poetry does not pay?’: The Yeats Sisters and the Cuala Press
Dr Lucy Collins will give the third lecture in our series 'Sisters' celebrating the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who have made their mark on Irish life.

Ties that endure – the lives and correspondence of three eighteenth-century sisters – Katherine Conolly, Jane Bonnell and Mary Jones
Dr Gabrielle M. Ashford will give the fourth lecture in our series 'Sisters' celebrating the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who have made their mark on Irish life.

The Shackleton sisters: Irish Quaker women c. 1750-1850
Dr Mary O'Dowd, MRIA, will give the fifth and final lecture in our series 'Sisters' celebrating the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who have made their mark on Irish life.
