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The Academy Library holds a collection of Certificates of Candidate. These are forms recommending individuals for membership of the Academy. The forms contain information such as the candidate’s name, address, profession or qualification for membership, the signatures of those members who acted...
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Collection of Professor Knud Jessen, Hon. MRIA, 1884-1971 (RIA MS 12 X 26)
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The Ordnance Survey (OS) was established in 1824, under the direction of Colonel Thomas Colby, assisted by Lieutenant Thomas Larcom, to undertake a townland survey of Ireland and to map the entire country at a scale of 6 inches to one mile. The cartographic element of the OS project was...
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A Royal Irish Academy Library Lunchtime Lecture on archaeologist and Irish art historian Françoise Henry, MRIA.
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Irish manuscripts, drawings and books donated by Robert Macalister, MRIA (1870–1950). The Academy’s ‘Macalister collection’ comprises manuscripts, antiquarian drawings and books that he had collected rather than his own research notes.
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RIA MS 23 P 2: Cat. No. 535 Late 14th century - early 15th century (A.D. 1397-A.D. 1418) Vellum: 32cm x 22cm 311 folios (9 in MS 1319 [formerly H.2.17] in the Sebright Collection in Trinity College, Dublin)
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The Upton Collection consists of the papers of Henry Arthur Shuckburgh Upton of Coolatore, Moate, Co. Westmeath, FRSAI, MRIA, 1870-1947.
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The Kevin B. Nowlan collection was donated to the Royal Irish Academy in 2013 and reflects the wide and varied interests which Nowlan held.
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RIA MS 12 R 31 c. A.D. 1444 Vellum: 23cm x 16cm 293 folios with 28 miniatures
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The private library of Thomas Moore, ‘the Bard of Erin,’ is a fine collection of classical literature and historical, literary and philosophical works.
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Library Lunchtime Lecture series which accompanied the exhibition Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century, exploring the varied worlds of five women selected as Honorary Members of the Academy in the nineteenth century.
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Staraí agus scríobhaí ba ea Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, agus sa bhliain 1627 d’imigh sé ar chuairt fhada ar fud na hÉireann agus an rún aige ábhar a chruinniú chun saothar mór a scríobh ar bheathaí na Naomh. Is féidir anois turas Mhíchíl a leanúint thart ar na háiteanna a raibh sé, agus eolas a chur ar...
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To commemorate the ninetieth anniversary of the commencement of the Doegen recordings project, Dr Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh compiled a blog post entitled 'The Doegen Records: putting faces to voices from the past'.
In 1928 a German professor, Dr...
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The Lough Hyne/Ine Collection is made up of documents arising from the scientific expeditions carried out at Lough Hyne marine lake, Cork from the 1940s until the 1980s. These expeditions were carried out by teams of British scientists and students led by Professor Jack Kitching and Professor...
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Welcome to the Royal Irish Academy Library, one of Ireland’s premier research libraries. The Library manages major manuscript, book, pamphlet and drawings collections. We offer comprehensive access and outreach programmes, facilitate master classes and visits, hold exhibitions and lecture series...
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Library Lunchtime Lecture organised in conjunction with an exhibition, 'Views of Dublin: original watercolours by George Petrie, MRIA, 1790-1866', curated by the Royal Irish Academy Library. This exhibition, to mark the 150th anniversary of the death of George Petrie,...
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The medieval Guild of St Anne received charitable donations and bequests of property in Dublin. Its archival records are an important source for the history of the medieval city and county of Dublin.
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RIA MS 23 P 10 (ii): Cat. No. 453 15th c. Vellum: 35cm x 25cm 92pp
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RICHARD JOHN USSHER, MRIA, 1841-1913, was a speleologist, ornithologist and the main author of Ussher & Warren, The birds of Ireland (Dublin and London, 1900). Ussher was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1906. He bequeathed his books, papers and correspondence on natural...
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The Felix Hackett Papers were presented to the Royal Irish Academy by the Murnaghan family in 1971.
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RIA MS 12 R 35 14th c. Vellum: 27cm x 19cm 301 leaves
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A collection of 19th and 20th century booksellers’ catalogues and auction catalogues, includes sales of private library collections.
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Library Lunchtime Lecture series commemorating the 350th anniversary of Jonathan Swift's birth.
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