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From the Reading Room - Our latest blog post looks at Eoin MacNeill, MRIA, and his expulsion from the Academy in 1916
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Dr Angela Byrne writes about Princess Dashkova for the fourth Blog post in our series on the five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century'.
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Latest Library blog post. In March, the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) collaborated with the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Library to promote Irish language collections as part of the Seachtain na Gaeilge celebrations (1-17 March 2022). A guest post by Áine Madden, Operations and Communications...
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From the Reading Room - Dr Bernadette Cunningham looks at an important chronicle of Irish history
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Thank you to Nancy Hurrell, our guest writer for this month's Library Blog post.
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The Library is delighted to announce our UCD Student Blog Series.
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The latest Library blog post looks at our collection of Irish language books.
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Library Blog post. Dr Bernadette Cunningham traces some of the Irish manuscripts seen by Edward Lhuyd, Welsh antiquary and lexicographer, in 1699 when he visited Arthur Brownlow of Lurgan, County Armagh.
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From the Reading Room - A welcome from Academy Librarian Siobhán Fitzpatrick.
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This month's Blog post looks at the Book of Ballycummin, the subject of our 4th Irish Manuscripts Conference taking place 7-8 March.
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In our latest Library Blog post guest blogger Deborah Hayden, Department of Early Irish, Maynooth University takes a fascinating look at the Irish language writing system of Ogam in the manuscripts of the RIA library.
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From Dublin Castle to the Academy Library - Sophie Evans explores the curious journey of the Secret Service Money Book, part of the Library's exhibition ' Dublin Documents '
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This month's Library Blog post looks at the sixteenth-century Irish law manuscript from the Academy collection currently on display in Galway City Museum.
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The Library is delighted to announce the second post in our UCD Student Blog Series. Amy Mitchell reports on the fascinating document she found while working on the collections.
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The latest Library Blog post highlights the works of artist Sarah Purser at Academy House.
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Latest Library Blog post. Grace Toland of the Irish Traditional Music Archive, introduces us to a wonderful project connecting artists with archival song, music and dance collections and the new art it has inspired.
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From the Reading Room - Our Library Assistant (Intern) Sinead Noonan reflects on her time working with us.
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Fifth and final blog post in our series on the five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century'.
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In our latest Library Blog post we sail away to Antarctica with Tom Crean in a post co-authored by RIA Deputy Librarian Meadhbh Murphy and author Tim Foley.
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The latest Library blog post, written by Charles Dillon, editor of the Academy's Foclóir Stairiúil Gaeilge, looks at the 'founder of Celtic studies'.
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For this month’s Library blog post, Dr John Gibney, Assistant Editor with the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series, looks at an important seventeenth-century document from our collections.
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In this month’s Library blog, we are delighted to have an informative piece by Prof. Pádraig Ó Macháin, Professor of Modern Irish at University College Cork (UCC). Pádraig is also Principal Investigator on the Inks and Skins Project and in this blog post he tells...
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Latest Library Blog post: A short film about the Royal Irish Academy Library
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Latest Library Blog post. With launch of the new online exhibition we head back to 1813 and look at the circumstances surrounding the 're-discovery' of the sixth-century manuscript, the Cathach.
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From the Reading Room – A look at one of the first female staff members of the Academy
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