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Best wishes to Academy Librarian Siobhán Fitzpatrick on her retirement.
Tuesday, 14 April 2020A fond farewell to our esteemed colleague, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, we wish her a long and happy retirement.
The First Seanad Éireann, women and the Senate Casket — Irishwomen appeal to a spirit of patriotism.
Tuesday, 31 March 2020This month's Library Blog post by Academy Librarian, Siobhán Fitzpatrick.
Documenting a conquest: The RIA copies of the ‘Books of Survey and Distribution’
Friday, 7 February 2020For this month’s Library blog post, Dr John Gibney, Assistant Editor with the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series, looks at an important seventeenth-century document from our collections.
Brehon law manuscripts reunited for Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture
Wednesday, 15 January 2020This month's Library Blog post looks at the sixteenth-century Irish law manuscript from the Academy collection currently on display in Galway City Museum.
Printers’ devices from the Royal Irish Academy's early print collections: Johannes Hamman.
Monday, 23 December 2019This is the first in a series of posts exploring printers’ devices in the early printed books of the library’s collections.
Listen back to our Lunchtime Lecture series on 'Discovering Thomas Moore'
Thursday, 5 December 2019This lecture series accompanies the Library's exhibition Discovering Thomas Moore: Ireland in nineteenth-century Europe
Quarks, Joyce and two twentieth-century physicists!
Thursday, 5 December 2019On 3 December the family of Professor Kevin Carroll, MRIA (1926-2016) presented the Academy with his signed first-edition copy of Finnegans Wake. We are delighted to receive this new addition to the Library's...
A Harp made for the Bard of Erin – John Egan’s Enterprising Product Placement
Thursday, 28 November 2019Thank you to Nancy Hurrell, our guest writer for this month's Library Blog post.
A King of Prussia, a Russian Grand Duke, an Indian Princess — and Thomas Moore — Ireland in Europe in 1821.
Tuesday, 8 October 2019For this month's Library blog post Librarian, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, takes a look at a very special new addition to our collections.
The mythical Island of Hy Brasil and the Book of O’Lees
Thursday, 19 September 2019This month's Library blog post takes you on a journey to an enchanted island ...