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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.

Listen back to our Swift Lunchtime Lectures
Thursday, 20 July 2017A series of talks commemorating the 350th anniversary of Jonathan Swift's birth.

A candle for Eugene O’Curry, or the cataloguer’s revenge
Wednesday, 19 July 2017The latest Library Blog post takes a look at the life of a nineteenth-century cataloguer.

Celebrating 1916 in 1966: Kevin B. Nowlan & RTÉ
Tuesday, 16 May 2017From the Reading Room: In the latest Library Blog post Archivist Karen de Lacey delves into the Nowlan archives.

‘A life of two exiles: Wacław Tadeusz Dobrzyński (1883-1962)’
Thursday, 11 May 2017Listen Back: Lunchtime Lecture in association with the Polish Embassy's exhibition on the life and career of Consul-General Wacław Tadeusz Dobrzyński.

The Haliday Collection & the DIB: J. P. Prendergast
Tuesday, 11 April 2017John Patrick Prendergast, author of The Cromwellian settlement of Ireland (1863), supported the publication of Haliday's Scandinavian kingdom of Dublin (1882), and recorded details of Haliday's life for posterity.

'Ability and industry scarcely credible': Johann Kaspar Zeuss and Grammatica Celtica
Monday, 3 April 2017The latest Library blog post, written by Charles Dillon, editor of the Academy's Foclóir Stairiúil Gaeilge, looks at the 'founder of Celtic studies'.

The Book of Uí Mhaine International Conference
Monday, 27 March 2017Listen back to this two-day conference on one of our major Gaelic medieval manuscripts