Blogs

LGBTQIA+ archival material in the collections of the Royal Irish Academy Library

Professor Sonja Tiernan, Co-ordinator of Irish Humanities Alliance, provides an insightful overview of items from the RIA Library collection relating to LGBTQIA+ history in Ireland.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, the mummy, the wicked surgeon and the headless corpse

For the Halloween season, read about one of Ireland’s best ghost story writers, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and what the RIA Library collection can tell…

OS200: Spotlight on the Ordnance Survey Memoirs

This blog is the third and final post in a series that marks 200 years since the first Ordnance Survey of Ireland.

OS200: Spotlight on the Ordnance Survey Letters

This blog is the second in a series that marks 200 years since the first Ordnance Survey of Ireland.

OS200: Spotlight on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey maps

This blog is the first in a series that marks 200 years since the first Ordnance Survey of Ireland.

The Birds of Ireland

For this instalment of the Library blog, we are introducing the Ussher Bird Notes Collection and are sharing some very exciting news with our readers…

Cynthia Longfield and the St George expedition

This blog marks the centenary of Cynthia Longfield’s adventure on the 1924 St George scientific expedition.

Bailiúchán Thionscadal Gréasáin Cheirníní Doegen – Guthanna an Ama atá thart á gCaomhnú

In celebration of Seachtain na Gaeilge we are pleased to highlight an important Irish language collection of audio recordings the Doegen Records.