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Wednesday, 15 November 2023In our latest Library blog, we feature the third post in our UCD Student Blog Series. Chloe Stapleton will transport you back to Dublin in 1705 when the presumed lost ship ‘The Ouzel Galley’ sailed back home the river...
Investigating inks and skins at the RIA Library
Monday, 2 October 2023In this month’s Library blog, we are delighted to have an informative piece by Prof. Pádraig Ó Macháin, Professor of Modern Irish at University College Cork (UCC). Pádraig is also Principal Investigator on the Inks and...
Falkiner and the Origins of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland
Friday, 25 August 2023The Library is delighted to announce the second post in our UCD Student Blog Series. Amy Mitchell reports on the fascinating document she found while working on the collections.
Bishops and Bullion – Papers of Charles Haliday
Tuesday, 11 July 2023The Library is delighted to announce our UCD Student Blog Series.
Irish History Online – To Infinity and Beyond!
Tuesday, 30 May 2023In the latest Library blog post Deputy Librarian Meadhbh Murphy gives an update on the work being done by the Irish History Online (IHO) team.
On the importance of preserving lantern slide collections
Thursday, 13 April 2023In the latest Library Blog post, Rebecca Cairns explores the photographic collection of Robert Lloyd Praeger (1865-1953) at the Royal Irish Academy.
The RIA Library’s collaboration with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Friday, 24 March 2023The latest library guest blog by Dr David Brown, Senior Researcher for the Virtual Treasury of Ireland, looks at how the Royal Irish Academy Library is helping to replace historical records destroyed by fire in 1922.
Royal Irish Academy Library Lectures come of age in 2022!
Monday, 19 December 2022The latest library guest blog features former Academy Librarian, Siobhán Fitzpatrick’s reflections on the development of the Library’s long-running series of lunchtime lectures.
Archives of William McFadden Orr MRIA, FRS
Monday, 28 November 2022The latest library guest blog post by Brian Patrick McArdle reflects on the Royal Irish Academy’s archive collection of William McFadden Orr MRIA, FRS (1866–1934).
Jan Łukasiewicz, Professor of Mathematical Logic at the Royal Irish Academy
Monday, 7 November 2022The latest library guest blog post by Dr Eoin Kinsella, Managing Editor, Dictionary of Irish Biography reflects on the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) exhibition about the life and career of Professor Jan Łukasiewicz (1878–...