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Important notice in relation to COVID 19
26 March 2020Due to Covid-19, the Royal Irish Academy is closed to Members and the public until 20 April. All upcoming events are postponed. Webshop orders will be processed with the exception of Irish Texts Society publications,...
Documenting a conquest: The RIA copies of the ‘Books of Survey and Distribution’
07 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
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.
Exhibition closed: Creative women of Ireland: artists and writers from the archives
From: Monday, 09 March 2020To: Wednesday, 23 December 2020
Exhibition closed: From little known artists to well-established writers, this exhibition turns the spotlight on creative women from the Academy’s archives.
Event Postponed: The seventeenth-century Boyle sisters and their letters: writing family and voicing the female
When: Wednesday, 01 April 2020Event Postponed: Library Lunchtime Lecture series 'Sisters II'. Dr Ann-Maria Walsh, School of English, Drama & Film, UCD, will give the fourth lecture in this new series.
Event Postponed: "We have found a better way, boys": Reassessing Anna and Fanny Parnell
When: Wednesday, 08 April 2020Event Postponed: Library Lunchtime Lecture series 'Sisters II'. Dr Diane Urquhart, Professor of Gender History, QUB, will give the fifth lecture in this new series.
