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Researching our medieval Irish manuscripts: impact of digitisation
Tuesday, 28 November 2017Irish Script on Screen has opened up a world of manuscripts for scholars - the latest Library Blog post looks at how digitisation has contributed to the study of manuscripts.
Professor Tuula Teeri delivers Annual Leaders in Higher Education Address
Tuesday, 21 November 2017Introductory remarks at this prestigious invitation only event were given by the Minister of State for Higher Education, Mary Mitchell O' Connor, TD.
The Holy See and the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Is a once-promising journey now going backward
Friday, 17 November 2017Watch Professor Mary McAleese's interview about her recent discourse addressing issues of Canon Law and children's rights.
The Finnish Higher Education Reform Towards an Innovative Society
Thursday, 9 November 2017The 2017 Leaders in Higher Education Address will be delivered by Professor Tuula Teeri, President-Elect of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and the first President of Aalto University, Finland
DIB lives: Conor Cruise O'Brien
Friday, 3 November 2017Marking the centenary of his birth, 3 November 1917, we post the Dictionary of Irish Biography entry on Conor Cruise O'Brien (d. 2008) by Frank Callanan.
Recent Bereavements
Thursday, 2 November 2017We note with sadness the passing of the following Members:
Launch of online Corpus of Irish Language 1600-1926
Friday, 27 October 2017A major milestone is reached in the Academy's Irish language project Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge.
What Caused Storm Ophelia?
Wednesday, 25 October 2017Was the exceptional strength of ex-hurricane Ophelia when it hit Ireland on the 16th of October 2017 due to global warming or was it a chance occurrence resulting from natural variability?
Table-Turning: a Victorian fad
Tuesday, 24 October 2017This month’s Library Blog post delves into our nineteenth-century pamphlets to get readers into the spirit of Halloween.
Focal ar fhocal
Tuesday, 24 October 2017Fáilte go dtí blag nua seo Fhoclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge. Sa chéad mhír seo tabharfaidh muid spléachadh ar stair agus ar chuspóir an tionscnaimh taighde seo, agus caithfidh muid súil fosta ar an scéal is déanaí maidir...