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Bishop John O’Brien and his 250 year-old Irish Dictionary
19 October 2018In this month’s Library blog post, Charles Dillon, Editor of the Royal Irish Academy’s Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge, examines how O’Brien’s Focalóir came about and its influence on Irish learning and lexicography.
Margaret Stokes: antiquarian scholar with an artist’s eye
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
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...
'Prodigies of learning': Academy women in the nineteenth century
From: Monday, 09 July 2018To: Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Exhibition exploring the varied worlds of five women selected as Honorary Members of the Academy in the nineteenth century
‘Learned societies and the problem of women’
When: Wednesday, 07 November 2018Dr Clare O'Halloran will give the first lecture in our series accompanying the exhibition 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century'
‘“A Woman in an August Sanctuary”: Princess Ekaterina Dashkova, Director of the Russian Academies’
When: Wednesday, 14 November 2018Dr Angela Byrne will give the second lecture in our series accompanying the exhibition 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century'
