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An online illustrated talk by Dr Bernadette Cunningham on one of Dublin's oldest suburbs and some myths that have emerged about the gate.This talk has been organised for the Dublin Festival of History, 2020
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Irish Script on Screen (ISOS) is a project which was initiated by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, in 1999. The aim of the project is to make Irish manuscripts available on the web for the purposes of information and research. ISOS provides access to important...
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J.H. Lloyd (Seosamh Laoide), MRIA, 1865-1939, was an Irish language scholar, activist and folklorist. A member of the Society for the Preservation of Irish Language and of Conradh na Gaeilge (the Gaelic League)....
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Lunchtime Lecture to accompany the Polish Embassy's exhibition on the life and career of Consul-General Wacław Tadeusz Dobrzyński.
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Forty-three Irish manuscripts were bequeathed to the Royal Irish Academy by William Smith O’Brien, and received by the Library in 1865.
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For a bird’s eye view of life at court and on a Russian country estate, and for records of society in France, Italy and Russia in the early 19th century, the Wilmot-Dashkova papers are a mine of information.
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RIA MS D i 2: Cat. No. 1221 17th century Paper: 7.5cm x 10cm 356pp
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Details and prices of services offered by the library, including how to order a photograph, scan, microfilm or photocopy or get permission to reproduce Academy material.
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The Book of Uí Mhaine is one of the most important manuscripts of late medieval Ireland. Its size, scope and extent, the range of texts it encompasses and its illumination all mark it out as one of the outstanding productions of Irish scholarship in this period. Written in the late fourteenth...
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An online illustrated talk by Lars B. Nooij, PhD student, Department of Early Irish Studies, Maynooth University.
This talk has been organised for the Dublin Festival of History.
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RIA MS 12 R 33 c. A.D. 560-600 Vellum: 27cm x 19cm 58 leaves (original c. 110 leaves)
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The Irish language was the most widely used language in Ireland up to the mid-nineteenth century, and a very significant portion of the country’s manuscript heritage in the Irish language is preserved in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy. From its establishment in 1785 the Academy Library...
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Library Lunchtime Lecture on the manuscripts of the Guild of St Anne, part of the Haliday Collection held at the Royal Irish Academy.
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Cynthia Longfield (1896–1991) was an independent scientist, specialising in dragonflies (Odonata). She travelled extensively throughout the world in the course of her research.
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RIA MS D ii 1: Cat. no. 1225. c. A.D. 1394. Vellum: 44cm x 27cm. 157 folios (4 additional folios are in British Library, MS Egerton 90, ff 17 – 20)
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The Windele papers are a mine of information for archaeologists, historians, antiquarian scholars, Irish language and music research and for information on 19th century antiquarian networks.
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Library Lunchtime Lecture series organised to accompany the exhibition 'Science at the Royal Irish Academy: ‘Uniting whatever is pleasing with whatever is useful’ (July 2012-May 2013.)
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The Royal Irish Academy was founded in 1785. From its inception it has retained minutes of Stated Meetings of the Academy and minutes of meetings of the Academy Council. The Academy also holds minute books recording decisions taken at meetings of the Committee of Polite Literature and...
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