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Citation on the awarding of the 2007 RIA Gold Medal in the Humanities to George Eogan MRIA
Written on 21 November 2007
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RIA MS 23 P 26: Cat. No. 479 A.D. 1516 Vellum: 30cm x 23cm 41 folios
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The collection consists of 49 documents relating to the estate and land transactions of the Purcell family of Loughmoe, Co. Tipperary (Special List A019).
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The Academy Library’s print collections include books, pamphlets, auction catalogues, maps, broadsides and printed ephemera. Each item in the collection is individually catalogued on our...
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GIS-based projects using IHTA material.
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Drawings of chimney-pieces created by George and Hill Darley in the course of their work as stone-cutters in Dublin between c. 1757-1813.
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Find out how the Academy is funded.
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Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 1 Kildare by J.H. Andrews was originally published in 1986.
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Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 16 Dundalk by Harold O'Sullivan was originally published in 2006.
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William Rowan Hamilton was born in 1805 and is universally recognised as the greatest mathematician, and arguably the greatest scientist, that Ireland has produced to date.
He came to early fame for his work on optics, including his remarkable prediction of the phenomenon of conical...
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A list of past Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) events.
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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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Digital Atlas of Dungarvan is launched as part of Heritage Week 2020
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To complement the Irish Historic Towns Atlas Online series we are producing short essays by experts on particular town types.
The sixth in the series is on the town in the nineteenth century. Dr Jacinta Prunty is an IHTA...
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See what others are saying about Art and Architecture of Ireland.
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RIA MS 23 E 25: Cat. No. 1229 Before A.D. 1106 Vellum: 32cm x 24cm 67 folios, a fragment of original manuscript
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The Academy Library holds major national and international journal collections of historic and current interest to research.
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Welcome to the Academy’s data protection, privacy and data retention pages.
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Inaugural John Bell Day lecture to commemorate Bell's The.orem which was first submitted for publication on 4th November 1964
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Thomas Kent (1865–1916), from a farming family near Fermoy, Co. Cork, was involved in land agitation, the Gaelic League, and the Irish Volunteers. In May 1916 he and other family members fought a gun battle with police and military besieging their home, in which a police constable was killed....
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