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Margaret Stokes: antiquarian scholar with an artist’s eye
Thursday, 20 September 2018We continue our Blog post series on the five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century'. This month we look at Margaret Stokes

Royal Irish Academy joins Digital Repository of Ireland under new membership model
Thursday, 20 September 2018As one of DRI’s core consortium organisations, the RIA has been closely involved with DRI’s development since 2011 and collections from the Academy Library and Publications departments have been deposited in the...

'The Doegen Records: putting faces to voices from the past'
Tuesday, 21 August 2018The latest Library blog post commemorates the 90th anniversary of the recording of Irish speakers by Dr Wilhelm Doegen of Berlin and celebrates new images of the speakers thanks to the National Folklore Collection, UCD

Miss Edgeworth advises …
Tuesday, 24 July 2018Second in our Blog post series on the five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century.' This month we look at Maria Edgeworth, Hon. MRIA.

Caroline Herschel – ‘Comet-searcher’
Monday, 25 June 2018First in our Blog post series on five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century.' This month we look at Caroline Herschel.

Not just bricks & mortar
Monday, 28 May 2018Latest Library Blog post: A short film about the Royal Irish Academy Library

Listen back to Dr Eileen Kane's Lunchtime Lecture on Françoise Henry
Thursday, 10 May 2018Dr Eileen Kane presented her lecture on archaeologist and Irish art historian Françoise Henry, MRIA, at Academy House on 18 April 2018.

The artist and the presidents
Wednesday, 28 March 2018The latest Library Blog post highlights the works of artist Sarah Purser at Academy House.

Printed books in Irish in the Royal Irish Academy Library
Wednesday, 28 February 2018The latest Library blog post looks at our collection of Irish language books.

A French art historian in Ireland
Friday, 26 January 2018Latest Library Blog post. Peter Harbison, MRIA, looks at the works of art historian and archaeologist Françoise Henry, MRIA, the subject of our current exhibition Françoise Henry and the history of Irish art