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Book of Ballymote Conference 5-6 February 2015
Wednesday, 25 May 2016Listen back to lectures from our Book of Ballymote conference

Intellectual life in Ireland, 1910-1920 Lunchtime Lecture Series - audio recordings now available
Wednesday, 11 May 2016Lectures examining aspects of scholarship and intellectual life that helped shape cultural understandings of what it meant to be Irish in the early twentieth century.

Celticists, lexicographers and antiquarian scholars
Thursday, 5 May 2016Listen to lectures from our series ‘1815, 1915: Centenaries & bicentenaries’

Rebellion and Expulsion
Tuesday, 3 May 2016From the Reading Room - Our latest blog post looks at Eoin MacNeill, MRIA, and his expulsion from the Academy in 1916

'A Rich and Gentle Mind' – Maud Joynt and the 1911 Census
Friday, 22 April 2016From the Reading Room – A look at one of the first female staff members of the Academy

Another View: Gaelic manuscript culture in Edmund Spenser’s Ireland
Monday, 18 April 2016An online exhibition looking at the Gaelic literary culture of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century

Listen to the Ó Longáin family Lunchtime Lecture Series
Thursday, 7 April 2016Three lectures from the series ‘Scribing for Ireland: the Ó Longáin family and the Royal Irish Academy'

My time as an intern in the RIA Library
Friday, 1 April 2016From the Reading Room - Our Library Assistant (Intern) Sinead Noonan reflects on her time working with us.

The instruments from Rathmines that proved Einstein right
Thursday, 31 March 2016A chance to see the recently discovered astronomical equipment that proved Einstein right, 12-14 April

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