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Launch of Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge a free gift to commemorate Gaelic revival
Wednesday, 23 March 2016This Journal was an important periodical for the Irish language revival community in the time before the foundation of the Irish Free State.

Missing Persons in the Dictionary of Irish Biography – Fr Albert Bibby
Wednesday, 23 March 2016A range of lives feature in the December 2015 ‘missing persons’ update to the Dictionary of Irish Biography online, comprising persons omitted from the 2009 first edition. Read the entry on Fr Bibby, a Capuchin friar...

Centenary Gift from Ireland to the World
Friday, 11 March 2016To mark the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising, a gift for the people of the world - a free eBook of 1916 Portraits and Lives - has been produced.

To be, to log, to blog …
Friday, 11 March 2016From the Reading Room - A welcome from Academy Librarian Siobhán Fitzpatrick.

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: Celebration: The Beginning of Labour
Friday, 11 March 2016Pauline Cummins’ mural from 1984 is a response to cultural stereotyping.

Call for applications for Archaeology Grants
Friday, 11 March 2016Apply for Archaeology Research Grants and Archaeology C14 Radiocarbon Dates Scheme.

‘Women of the Rising’ campaign launched on International Women’s Day
Wednesday, 9 March 2016On 8 March the Royal Irish Academy, in partnership with Bus Éireann, launched a campaign to commemorate some of the women of the 1916 Rising, to coincide with International Women’s Day 2016.

Views of Dublin Online Exhibition
Tuesday, 8 March 2016The Library's exhibition 'Views of Dublin: original watercolours by George Petrie, MRIA, 1790-1866' may have ended but you can now view it online.

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: Bligeard Sráide by Michael Davitt
Thursday, 3 March 2016This week’s Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks is Bligeard Sraide published in 1983 by Michael Davitt, which established Davitt as one of the most innovative poets in the Irish language.
