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New DIB 'missing person': Fay Taylour
Thursday, 16 January 2020Pioneering motorist Fay Taylour joins the DIB in our latest batch of 'missing persons'. Born in Offaly in 1904, she won multiple major motorcycle and car racing titles against both male and female competitors.
Brehon law manuscripts reunited for Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture
Wednesday, 15 January 2020This month's Library Blog post looks at the sixteenth-century Irish law manuscript from the Academy collection currently on display in Galway City Museum.
Brendan O'Leary Hon. MRIA in conversation with Ben Lowry, Deputy Editor, News Letter
Wednesday, 15 January 2020Listen to Brendan O’Leary Hon. MRIA discuss his latest three volume book A Treatise on Northern Ireland with Ben Lowry, Deputy Editor, News Letter.
New DIB 'missing person': Nicholas Nolan
Tuesday, 14 January 2020Another new 'mssing persons' entry to the DIB is Nicholas Nolan (pictured above holding gloves), secretary to the Government and secretary of the Department of the Taoiseach (1961–72). A painstakingly...
New DIB 'missing person': Pat Tierney
Monday, 13 January 2020Street poet and activist, Pat Tierney, has recently been added to the DIB as a 'missing person'. In his writings Tierney candidly explored the trauma and abuse he experienced as a child in industrial schools.
New DIB 'missing person': Mary Bonaventura Browne
Friday, 10 January 2020Our latest batch of 'missing persons' adds sixty-six fascinating figures from Irish history to the DIB. Today we're publishing Terry Clavin's new entry for Mary Bonaventura Browne, an abbess of the Poor Clares...
New DIB 'missing person' : London's 'queen of the nightclubs'
Thursday, 9 January 2020To mark the publication of our latest batch of 'missing persons', we publish the entry on Kate Meyrick by Margaret Elliott, below. Seated centre in the image above from 1928, Meyrick dominated the London nightclub...
'Missing person' Florence Stoker added to DIB
Monday, 6 January 2020Florence Stoker, Oscar Wilde's 'first love' and the woman whose canny management of her husband Bram's estate helped make 'Dracula' a household name, is among the sixty-six 'missing persons' (twenty-eight of whom...
The DIB at Christmas: Maureen Potter
Monday, 23 December 2019Happy Christmas! We hope to evoke the festive spirit by publishing the DIB entry of actress and Christmas panto stalwart, Maureen Potter, by Lawrence William White.
Printers’ devices from the Royal Irish Academy's early print collections: Johannes Hamman.
Monday, 23 December 2019This is the first in a series of posts exploring printers’ devices in the early printed books of the library’s collections.