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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.
Printers’ devices from the Royal Irish Academy's early print collections: Johannes Hamman.
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'
05 December 2019This lecture series accompanies the Library's exhibition Discovering Thomas Moore: Ireland in nineteenth-century Europe
The Books of Knockninny: manuscripts, culture and society in 18th-century Fermanagh
From: Monday, 13 January 2020To: Friday, 28 February 2020
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...
Discovering Thomas Moore: Ireland in nineteenth-century Europe
From: Wednesday, 22 January 2020To: Friday, 28 February 2020
Find out more about Moore! An exhibition at the Royal Irish Academy Library, in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast.
‘Me Guidhir Fhearmanach’ : text and context
When: Wednesday, 05 February 2020Library 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.
