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Bringing the Stowe Missal to life
Friday, 22 May 2020This month's Library Blog post looks at the Stowe Missal. Thank you to our guest writer Lars Nooij for bringing this wonderful manuscript to life.
Important notice in relation to COVID 19
Sunday, 17 May 2020We have physically closed Academy House to Members and the public until further notice. RIA staff are undertaking Academy business from their homes.
Acht ós cinneamhaint dom imtheacht ‘mo dhíorfach... (Since I am fated to become a hermit…)
Friday, 1 May 2020Dr Charles Dillon of the Academy’s Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge considers hermits, hermitage and the lonely life as manifested in Irish literature and language over the centuries.
Memories, manuscripts and medieval ink
Thursday, 23 April 2020Library Blog post. After a visit to the Library last year, Kathleen Reen was inspired to learn more about how the old scribes made ink. Follow Kathleen on her journey.
Best wishes to Academy Librarian Siobhán Fitzpatrick on her retirement.
Tuesday, 14 April 2020A fond farewell to our esteemed colleague, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, we wish her a long and happy retirement.
The First Seanad Éireann, women and the Senate Casket — Irishwomen appeal to a spirit of patriotism.
Tuesday, 31 March 2020This month's Library Blog post by Academy Librarian, Siobhán Fitzpatrick.
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.