Belfast Roundtable on ‘Brexit and Borders’.

Roundtable at Queens University Belfast on issues and challenges relating to Brexit

2017 class of ‘Charlemont Scholars’ Award Ceremony

18:30 Thursday 9 March, Academy House. All Welcome. 

IHTA towns of Early Modern, Gaelic and Plantation origins are now available online

Bandon, Belfast, part I to 1840, Derry~Londonderry, Longford and Ennis are now freely available to search or download. 

Alan Hollinghurst in conversation with Carlo Gébler on Henry James as critic

Alan Hollinghurst in conversation with Carlo Gébler on Henry James as critic at the Royal Irish Academy on 26 January 2017.

Representations of Jews in Irish Literature – Podcasts

Listen back to lectures by Dr Barry Montgomery and Dr Rióna Ní Fhrighil on Jews and Jewishness in Irish literature 

The Haliday collection holds over 200 documents from the Guild of St. Anne; a selection are currently on display as part of the Library's exhibition 'Dublin Documents: highlights from Charles Haliday's manuscript...

The Annals of Connacht: a unique sixteenth-century manuscript

From the Reading Room - Dr Bernadette Cunningham looks at an important chronicle of Irish history 

New lives added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography – Josephine Hart

Thirty-eight new lives were added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography in December 2016. 

Academy Gold Medals

Professor Louis Cullen and Professor Fergus Shanahan were awarded the 2016 Academy Gold Medals.

The Book of Uí Mhaine Library Conference, 2-3 March 2017

The third conference in our series on major Gaelic medieval manuscripts explores the fourteenth-century Book of Uí Mhaine