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Library closure: 24 December 2022 - 9 January 2023.
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Lebor na hUidre (LU) is the oldest extant manuscript written entirely in the Irish language. It contains the earliest versions of some of the most celebrated sagas: Táin Bó Cuailnge, Togail Bruidne Da Derga, Fled Bricrenn, Mesca Ulad, Tochmarc Emere and several others, in addition...
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"Long before journalism had a name, Europe had a fully operative commercial news market, and newsmen had their own strongly felt code of ethics."
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We continue our Blog post series on the five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century' . This month we look at Margaret Stokes
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A fond farewell to our esteemed colleague, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, we wish her a long and happy retirement.
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Extension of opening hours beginning Monday, 28 February.
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We are delighted to announce that the Royal Irish Academy will once again be participating in Culture Night on Friday 22 September 2023 and will be open to the public from 17:00 to 21:00.
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To make the Library’s unique and distinct collections more accessible and searchable, we have moved our existing catalogue records to a new Library catalogue
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An online exhibition looking at the Gaelic literary culture of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century
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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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As part of the current RIA lunchtime series ‘Sisters’, Dr Lucy Collins delivered her lecture '"Who will ever say again that poetry does not pay?": The Yeats Sisters and the Cuala Press ' at Academy House.
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Library Blog post. The Royal Irish Academy Library recently collaborated with The Watercolour World, an online resource of watercolour paintings from before 1900.
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The latest library guest blog post by Bill Mc Cormack, MRIA, explores the provenance of Bertrand Russell’s 1903 edition Principles of Mathematics (vol 1) and its annotations in the copy held at the Royal Irish Academy Library.
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Ireland was mapped on the unprecedented scale of 6 inches to the mile by the Ordnance Survey which produced maps for all 32 counties.
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Latest Library Blog post. Peter Harbison, MRIA, looks at the works of art historian and archaeologist Françoise Henry, MRIA, the subject of our current exhibition Françoise Henry and the history of Irish art
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This month's Library blog post takes you on a journey to an enchanted island ...
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Latest Library Blog post. Dr Bernadette Cunningham looks at the development of the Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy.
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Season's Greetings to all our members and friends!
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In October the Library was pleased to receive by donation a 19th century illustrated edition of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno – The Vision of Hell
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Celebrating 150 years of the Haliday Collection at the Royal Irish Academy #Haliday150
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In this month’s Library blog post, Charles Dillon, Editor of the Royal Irish Academy’s Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge , examines how O’Brien’s Focalóir came about and its influence on Irish learning and lexicography.
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Library Blog post. After a visit to the Library last year, Kathleen Reen was inspired to learn more about how the old scribes made ink. Follow Kathleen on her journey.
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The Doegen Records Web Project is now under the stewardship of the DRI. Tionscadal Gréasáin Cheirníní Doegen, The Doegen Records Web Project - Digital Repository of Ireland (dri.ie)
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To help us celebrate National Heritage Week 2023, Stephen Ferguson, An Post Archivist & Museum Curator delivered a lunchtime lecture at RIA Library on Ireland’s stamps and changing national image.
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The RIA Library is delighted to announce that we have received funding from the Heritage Council as part of the Heritage Stewardship Fund for our project ‘The Birds of Ireland: Curating the Richard J. Ussher Collection at the Royal Irish Academy’.
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