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Important notice in relation to COVID 19
Thursday, 26 March 2020Due to Covid-19, the Royal Irish Academy is closed to Members and the public until 20 April. All upcoming events are postponed. Webshop orders will be processed with the exception of Irish Texts Society publications,...
Documenting a conquest: The RIA copies of the ‘Books of Survey and Distribution’
Friday, 7 February 2020For this month’s Library blog post, Dr John Gibney, Assistant Editor with the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series, looks at an important seventeenth-century document from our collections.
Brehon law manuscripts reunited for Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture
Wednesday, 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.
Monday, 23 December 2019This is the first in a series of posts exploring printers’ devices in the early printed books of the library’s collections.
Christmas Opening Hours
Wednesday, 18 December 2019Wishing all our members and friends a very Happy Christmas and New Year.
Listen back to our Lunchtime Lecture series on 'Discovering Thomas Moore'
Thursday, 5 December 2019This lecture series accompanies the Library's exhibition Discovering Thomas Moore: Ireland in nineteenth-century Europe
Quarks, Joyce and two twentieth-century physicists!
Thursday, 5 December 2019On 3 December the family of Professor Kevin Carroll, MRIA (1926-2016) presented the Academy with his signed first-edition copy of Finnegans Wake. We are delighted to receive this new addition to the...
A Harp made for the Bard of Erin – John Egan’s Enterprising Product Placement
Thursday, 28 November 2019Thank you to Nancy Hurrell, our guest writer for this month's Library Blog post.
A King of Prussia, a Russian Grand Duke, an Indian Princess — and Thomas Moore — Ireland in Europe in 1821.
Tuesday, 8 October 2019For this month's Library blog post Librarian, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, takes a look at a very special new addition to our collections.
The mythical Island of Hy Brasil and the Book of O’Lees
Thursday, 19 September 2019This month's Library blog post takes you on a journey to an enchanted island ...