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'The Doegen Records: putting faces to voices from the past'

Tuesday, 21 August 2018

The 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

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Miss Edgeworth advises …

Tuesday, 24 July 2018

Second 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. 

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Caroline Herschel – ‘Comet-searcher’

Monday, 25 June 2018

First 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.

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Not just bricks & mortar

Monday, 28 May 2018

Latest Library Blog post: A short film about the Royal Irish Academy Library 

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Listen back to Dr Eileen Kane's Lunchtime Lecture on Françoise Henry

Thursday, 10 May 2018

Dr Eileen Kane presented her lecture on archaeologist and Irish art historian Françoise Henry, MRIA, at Academy House on 18 April 2018. 

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