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Caroline Herschel – ‘Comet-searcher’
Monday, 25 June 2018First in our Blog post series on five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century.' This month we look at Caroline Herschel.

Not just bricks & mortar
Monday, 28 May 2018Latest Library Blog post: A short film about the Royal Irish Academy Library

The artist and the presidents
Wednesday, 28 March 2018The latest Library Blog post highlights the works of artist Sarah Purser at Academy House.

Printed books in Irish in the Royal Irish Academy Library
Wednesday, 28 February 2018The latest Library blog post looks at our collection of Irish language books.

A French art historian in Ireland
Friday, 26 January 2018Latest Library Blog post. Peter Harbison, MRIA, looks at the works of art historian and archaeologist Françoise Henry, MRIA, the subject of our current exhibition Françoise Henry and the history of Irish art

Researching our medieval Irish manuscripts: impact of digitisation
Tuesday, 28 November 2017Irish Script on Screen has opened up a world of manuscripts for scholars - the latest Library Blog post looks at how digitisation has contributed to the study of manuscripts.

Table-Turning: a Victorian fad
Tuesday, 24 October 2017This month’s Library Blog post delves into our nineteenth-century pamphlets to get readers into the spirit of Halloween.

Beranger's painted people - himself and others
Tuesday, 26 September 2017Dr Peter Harbison, MRIA, takes a closer look at Gabriel Beranger's watercolours in the latest Library blog post.

Learning to read Irish text, 1727
Thursday, 24 August 2017Learning to read Irish manuscripts is a first step to perpetuating the scholarly tradition cultivated by eighteenth-century Irish scribes and scholars. Latest blog post by Bernadette Cunningham, Deputy Librarian.

‘This is a song a robin sang , this morning on a broken tree’
Thursday, 27 July 2017In memoriam Francis Ledwidge, 1887-1917. The latest Library blog post, written by Siobhán Fitzpatrick.