Blogs

Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin MRIA: Historian

Professor Ó hAnnracháin’s research into the religious culture of Early Modern Europe explores how Irish events and processes can illuminate and provide fresh perspectives on…

On the importance of preserving lantern slide collections

In the latest Library Blog post, Rebecca Cairns explores the photographic collection of Robert Lloyd Praeger (1865-1953) at the Royal Irish Academy.

Kath Browne MRIA: Geographer

Professor Browne’s research focuses on creating new understandings of how societies differentiate and create hierarchies and inequalities. She seeks positive social change that recognises that…

The RIA Library’s collaboration with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

The latest library guest blog by Dr David Brown, Senior Researcher for the Virtual Treasury of Ireland, looks at how the Royal Irish Academy Library…

‘From vice to virtue, from idleness to industry, from profaneness to practical religion’ Grangegorman penitentiary

Joan Kavanagh, author and historian, has documented the experiences of women and girls transported from Ireland to the Australian colonies during the 19th Century. Here,…

Enrico Dal Lago MRIA: Historian

Professor Dal Lago’s research looks at the comparative history of the nineteenth-century Americas and Europe—particularly the United States in the era of the American civil…

Sport and the Richmond Lunatic Asylum

Paul Rouse is a professor in the School of History at University College Dublin. He has written extensively on the history of Irish sport and…

Royal Irish Academy Library Lectures come of age in 2022!

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.