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Thomas Moore at 240!
Friday, 28 June 2019In this month's Library blog post Harry White, MRIA, Professor of Music, University College Dublin, takes a look at our current exhibition Discovering Thomas Moore: Ireland in nineteenth-century Europe.
Discovering Thomas Moore’ exhibition and launch of ERIN website
Monday, 17 June 2019If you missed our Thomas Moore Exhibition, 17 June- 28 February 2020, you can listen back to the accompanying lectures and blog post on our exhibition page
Two women and the Royal Irish Academy
Monday, 27 May 2019In this month's Library Blog post, Turlough O'Riordan of the Dictionary of Irish Biography, looks at the issues surrounding the election of women to the Royal Irish Academy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Libraries and Archives Roundtable
Thursday, 23 May 2019Forum facilitating discussions on library and archive issues in relation to heritage and culture, with a particular focus on Heritage 2030.
Boxing Ballymote
Thursday, 25 April 2019This month's blog post is dedicated to the generous funders of conservation work on the Book of Ballymote. Thank you!
Sisters
Wednesday, 24 April 2019Listen back to our lunchtime lecture series celebrating sisterhood and specifically the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who made their mark on Irish life.
DIB entry of the day: Mary Leadbeater
Wednesday, 17 April 2019Professor Mary O'Dowd, MRIA, will today deliver a lecture 'The Shackleton sisters: Irish Quaker women c. 1750-1850' the fifth and final event in the current lunchtime series, 'Sisters', celebrating the lives and...
DIB entry of the day: Katherine Conolly
Tuesday, 9 April 2019As part of the RIA lunchtime series ‘Sisters’, Dr Gabrielle M. Ashford this Wednesday presents her lecture 'Ties that endure – the lives and correspondence of three eighteenth-century sisters – Katherine Conolly, Jane...
DIB entries of the day: Lollie and Lily Yeats
Wednesday, 3 April 2019As part of the current RIA lunchtime series ‘Sisters’, Dr Lucy Collins delivered her lecture '"Who will ever say again that poetry does not pay?": The Yeats Sisters and the Cuala Press ' at Academy House.
'"A little remnant of the work of the ancients" 23 N 10: the Book of Ballycummin'
Thursday, 28 March 2019Listen back to the Library’s 4th Irish Manuscripts Conference in partnership with Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad.