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‘A life of two exiles: Wacław Tadeusz Dobrzyński (1883-1962)’

Listen Back: Lunchtime Lecture in association with the Polish Embassy's exhibition on the life and career of Consul-General Wacław Tadeusz Dobrzyński.

The Haliday Collection & the DIB: J. P. Prendergast

John Patrick Prendergast, author of The Cromwellian settlement of Ireland (1863), supported the publication of Haliday's Scandinavian kingdom of Dublin (1882), and recorded details of Haliday's life for posterity.

'Ability and industry scarcely credible': Johann Kaspar Zeuss and Grammatica Celtica

The latest Library blog post, written by Charles Dillon, editor of the Academy's Foclóir Stairiúil Gaeilge, looks at the 'founder of Celtic studies'.

The Book of Uí Mhaine International Conference

Listen back to this two-day conference on one of our major Gaelic medieval manuscripts

The Haliday Collection & the DIB

"‘No ydle person or vaccabonde shall repayre or hawnte within the same shire … upon payne of hanging, onles he have juste cawse"*

Secrets, lies & conspiracies

From Dublin Castle to the Academy Library - Sophie Evans explores the curious journey of the Secret Service Money Book,  part of the Library's exhibition 'Dublin Documents'

Charitable property: the manuscripts of St Anne's Guild, Dublin

Listen to Professor Colm Lennon give a talk on the manuscripts of the Guild of St Anne, part of the Haliday Collection held at the Royal Irish Academy.

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