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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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John Patrick Prendergast, author of The Cromwellian settlement of Ireland (1863), supported the publication of Haliday's Scandinavian kingdom of Dublin (1882), and recorded details of Haliday's life for posterity.
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As part of the RIA lunchtime series ‘Sisters’, Dr Gabrielle M. Ashford this Wednesday presents her lecture 'Ties that endure – the lives and correspondence of three eighteenth-century sisters – Katherine Conolly, Jane Bonnell and Mary Jones' at Academy House.
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Latest Library Blog post. In November the Library participated in the Explore Your Archive social media campaign, here are some of the collections we highlighted. '
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Join us on 4 October to learn more about our research projects, library and publications
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This year we welcomed 1467 visitors through the doors and we had plenty for them to see and hear.
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The latest Library blog post looks at our collection of Irish language books.
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For this month's Library blog post Librarian, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, takes a look at a very special new addition to our collections.
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Our esteemed colleague Dr Bernadette Cunningham is retiring today after over twenty years at the Academy Library.
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The latest library guest blog features former Academy Librarian, Siobhán Fitzpatrick’s reflections on the development of the Library’s long-running series of lunchtime lectures.
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Academy partners with Google to launch virtual tour.
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'Dublin Documents', a Library exhibition highlighting items from the Haliday collection, will run from 9 January to 5 May 2017.
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Codices Hibernenses Eximii II: Book of Ballymote is the second in a series of books dedicated to exploring some of the major manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy’s collection.
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Dr Charles Dillon of the Academy’s Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge considers hermits, hermitage and the lonely life as manifested in Irish literature and language over the centuries.
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Latest Library Blog post. Anita Cooper looks at the clock in the RIA reading room and its maker J. Booth & Son of Dublin.
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The Academy (including the Library) will be closed on Friday, 18 August to facilitate building upgrade works. Apologies in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Ar an 24 Feabhra 2024, tháinig mic léinn iarchéime ó gach cearn den tír chuig Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann le haghaidh máistir-rang a d’eagraigh Coiste Léann na Gaeilge agus an Léinn Cheiltigh.
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Listen to lectures from our series ‘1815, 1915: Centenaries & bicentenaries’
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Listen Back: Lunchtime Lecture in association with the Polish Embassy's exhibition on the life and career of Consul-General Wacław Tadeusz Dobrzyński.
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Professor Mary O'Dowd, MRIA, will today deliver a lecture 'The Shackleton sisters: Irish Quaker women c. 1750-1850' the fifth and final event in the current lunchtime series, 'Sisters', celebrating the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who have made their mark on Irish...
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Latest Library Blog post. A look at two beautiful manuscripts at the end of a very strange year. We wish you all a safe and healthy New Year.
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Extension of opening hours beginning Friday, 30 September 2022
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Listen back to Dr Bairbre Ní Fhloinn's Heritage Week Lunchtime Lecture on folk medicine
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The latest Library Blog post highlights the works of artist Sarah Purser at Academy House.
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This is the first in a series of posts exploring printers’ devices in the early printed books of the library’s collections.
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