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The Book of Knockninny / Leabhar Chnoc Ninne is an Irish language manuscript compiled in 1718 for Brian Mág Uidhir of Knockninny, Co. Fermanagh. It contains a selection of historical poems and prose texts. This series of Library Lunchtime Lectures was organised to celebrate the 300th anniversary...
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Read short expert essays on the various town-types in Ireland, from monastic to nineteenth-century towns.
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Citation on the awarding of the 2005 RIA Gold Medal in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences to Michael Coey MRIA
Written on 2 November 2005
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The Royal Irish Academy is a registered charity. Support from our Donors, Corporate Friends, Sponsors and Affiliates aids the Royal Irish Academy to nurture our best young academics, to preserve our treasured library resources for current and future researchers, to present engaging, informative...
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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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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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Due to the voluminous nature of extant documentary material relating to the drafting of the Constitution, it was not possible to provide transcripts of all relevant material in the published volume. Photographs of some of these documents are thus provided here and are intended to further...
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Éamonn Ceannt (1881–1916), was born in Glenamaddy, Co. Galway, the son of an RIC man. He worked as a clerk in Dublin Corporation, and was a keen Gaelic Leaguer and a founder of the Dublin Pipers’ Club. He was one of the key planners of the Easter rising and signed the Proclamation of the...
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Drawing on decades of voluntary work by compilers and editors of Writings in Irish History, the compilation of the Irish History Online bibliography continues to rely principally on the work of volunteers.
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The Digital Atlas of Galway is the result of a collaboration between the Irish Historic Towns Atlas project in the Royal Irish Academy, Maynooth University and Ordnance Survey Ireland.
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Professor Shafi Goldwasser (MIT and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) delivered the Royal Irish Academy's 2016 Hamilton Lecture on the topic ‘Modern cryptography in the age of cloud computing’.
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DRAPIer was an interactive database of Irish digital humanities projects. It made projects of interest findable by searching for keywords or browsing by the facets listed on each page.
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The Dictionary of Irish Biography is Ireland’s national biographical dictionary. Devised, researched, written and edited under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy, its online edition covers nearly 11,000 lives.
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Library Lunchtime Lecture series exploring the works of some key scholars and organisations that helped shape ideas of Ireland and Irishness.
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In 1627, historian and scribe, Mícheál Ó Cléirigh embarked on a journey across Ireland on a quest to record the Lives of the Saints. Follow Ó Cléirigh on his scribal adventures through an almost forgotten landscape and discover what he found along the way.
This interactive StoryMap,...
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The North-South Standing Committee is a multi-disciplinary committee of Members that was reconstituted as a Standing Committee of Council in May 2012. Its purpose and aim is to enhance the Academy's overall strategic mission on the island of Ireland by strengthening its presence in Northern...
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A small number of Honorary Members are elected each year. The distinction of Honorary Membership is usually reserved for academics who have made a major international contribution to their disciplines but who are not normally resident in Ireland.
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Given all of the invaluable artefacts, documents and related material lost in the destruction of the city during the Easter Rising of 1916 it is fitting that the Digital Repository of Ireland marks the occasion with its inaugural Decade of Centenaries Digital Preservation Award.
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