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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!
Mrs Somerville – ‘queen of nineteenth-century science’
Thursday, 28 March 2019Fifth and final blog post in our series on the five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century'.
What’s in a name? Seán Ó Maoil Chonaire and the Book of Ballycummin ~ RIA MS 23 N 10
Friday, 1 February 2019This month's Blog post looks at the Book of Ballycummin, the subject of our 4th Irish Manuscripts Conference taking place 7-8 March.
Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova: the woman who broke through the ‘august sanctuary’ of the male-dominated Russian Academy
Thursday, 10 January 2019Dr Angela Byrne writes about Princess Dashkova for the fourth Blog post in our series on the five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century'.
Making a new Book of Knockninny 1718
Wednesday, 19 December 2018Three hundred years ago this month, Irish scribes were busy working on a new Irish manuscript. It was to be known as the Book of Knockninny.
Researching the history of Irish printing
Tuesday, 27 November 2018The Latest Library Blog post has been written by one of our international Readers, Irish-American printer, Jim Wilder.
Bishop John O’Brien and his 250 year-old Irish Dictionary
Friday, 19 October 2018In this month’s Library blog post, Charles Dillon, Editor of the Royal Irish Academy’s Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge, examines how O’Brien’s Focalóir came about and its influence on Irish learning and lexicography.
Margaret Stokes: antiquarian scholar with an artist’s eye
Thursday, 20 September 2018We continue our Blog post series on the five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century'. This month we look at Margaret Stokes
'The Doegen Records: putting faces to voices from the past'
Tuesday, 21 August 2018The latest Library blog post commemorates the 90th anniversary of the recording of Irish speakers by Dr Wilhelm Doegen of Berlin and celebrates new images of the speakers thanks to the National Folklore Collection, UCD
Miss Edgeworth advises …
Tuesday, 24 July 2018Second in our Blog post series on the five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century.' This month we look at Maria Edgeworth, Hon. MRIA.