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Culture Night
Visit us on Culture Night, we have lots in store ...
Re-imagining Moore
Professor Harry White, MRIA, will give the first lecture in our series on 'Discovering Thomas Moore'. Listen back.
Thomas Moore in Paris
Dr Tríona O'Hanlon will give the second lecture in our series on 'Discovering Thomas Moore'. Listen back.
Genius of the East? Moore's Orientalism
Dr Daniel Roberts will give the third lecture in our series on 'Discovering Thomas Moore'. Listen back.
Sentiment and song in Moore's Irish melodies and Lalla Rookh
Dr Sarah McCleave will give the fourth lecture in our series on 'Discovering Thomas Moore'. Listen back.
The politicization of the harp through Moore's Irish melodies
Professor Úna Hunt will give the fifth and final lecture in our series on 'Discovering Thomas Moore'. Listen back.
The Books of Knockninny: manuscripts, culture and society in 18th-century Fermanagh
An exhibition to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the compilation of the 'Book of Knockninny' and related manuscripts commissioned by Brian Mág Uidhir of Knockninny, County Fermanagh, in the early eighteenth century.
Discovering Thomas Moore: Ireland in nineteenth-century Europe
Find out more about Moore! An exhibition at the Royal Irish Academy Library, in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast.
Séamus Mág Uidhir and the Book(s) of Knockninny
Library Lunchtime Lecture. Dr Nollaig Ó Muraíle, MRIA, will give the first lecture in our series on The Books of Knockninny: the Maguires and their manuscripts in the early eighteenth century.
‘Me Guidhir Fhearmanach’ : text and context
Library Lunchtime Lecture. Dr Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, DCU, will give the second lecture in our series on The Books of Knockninny: the Maguires and their manuscripts in the early eighteenth century.
