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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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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 Dictionary of Irish Biography is devised, researched, written and edited under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy and published in print and online by Cambridge University Press. Twice yearly updates of new articles are added to the DIB online in June and December every year.
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The Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy is a peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research in pure and applied mathematics. Exceptionally, survey articles of topics of current research interest that present new points of view or major simplifications are also published...
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Patrick Henry Pearse (1879–1916), was born in Dublin, the son of an English stone carver and sculptor. A keen Gaelic Leaguer, he edited An Claidheamh Soluis (1903–9) and in 1908 founded the progressive Irish-Ireland St Enda’s school. In 1914 he became director of military organisation of the...
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Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 2 Carrickfergus by Philip Robinson was originally published in 1986.
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Foireann Fhoclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge – Liosta ainmneacha.
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The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) together with the National Monuments Service are pleased to once again invite applications for research into the archaeology of the Brú na Bóinne and Sceilg Mhichíl World Heritage Properties and of the following Tentative List sites announced in 2022:
1. The...
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In order to make an application for funding you will need to familiarise yourself with the ‘Guidelines for applicants’ document.
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The Royal Irish Academy has created a pop-up exhibition based on the book A history of Ireland in 100 words to inspire fresh interest in the Irish language by revealing connections between words we still use and words used in a bygone era.
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The Grangegorman site is an area of approximately 73 acres, north of the River Liffey and south of the Royal Canal. It is bounded by the North Circular Road to the north, Prussia Street and Stoneybatter to the west, and Brunswick Street to the south.
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James Caulfeild, Lord Charlemont, MRIA (1728–99), travelled to Rome, circa 1750, as a wealthy young man. He was escorted by his tutor and companion Revd Edward Murphy (1707–77). While there, the men commissioned Simon Vierpyl (c.1725–1810), a London-born sculptor living in Rome, to make...
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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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Royal Irish Academy Library in association with the Maynooth University Department of Early Irish, and the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
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RIA MS C iii 1 (Cat. No. 1219). 16th century. Vellum: 29cm x 21cm. [91] folios
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Papers of the Marquess MacSwiney of Mashanaglass presented to the Royal Irish Academy in his memory by his son, in February 1946.
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The Book of Ballymote is an iconic and hugely important 14th century Irish manuscript. Since it was presented to the Academy in 1785 many scholars have worked to decipher, disseminate and debate its content and form. This online exhibition takes a look...
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Irish Studies in International Affairs has been published since 1979 as the leading Irish-based, peer-reviewed, journal in the discipline, with an increasing international reputation and circulation. Each issue includes contributions on a special theme and other original articles related to...
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This beautifully crafted book catalogues 42 biographies of select figures from the Rising, chosen from the Royal Irish Academy’s extensive Dictionary of Irish Biography. Each of these fascinating biographies is depicted alongside artist David Rooney’s stirring scraper-board illustrations.
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A new phase of colonisation associated with town foundations occurred in the sixteenth century. New towns were planned under the Munster and Ulster Plantation schemes, some medieval towns were refounded and Gaelic market towns developed.
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Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 25 Ennis by Brian Ó Dálaigh was originally published in 2012.
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