Blogs

Provenance and annotations in Bertrand Russell’s Principles of Mathematics

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…

Shelfmarks: a podcast series recording library collections

The latest library guest blog post by Zoë Comyns, RIA Podcaster in Residence, reflects on the Shelfmarks podcast series looking through the library collections to…

Reforming the Agreement: A Dublin view

In the Republic the Good Friday Agreement is seen as a towering achievement of Irish diplomacy and statecraft. But while the public and politicians are…

Explaining the different results in opinion polls on Irish unity

Attitude surveys tend to show that public opinion in Northern Ireland, on the political future, has shifted significantly in the aftermath of the UK’s 2016…

ARINS podcast episode 13: Irish Unity: Lessons from Germany?

In this episode Tobias Lock and Aoife O’Donoghue discuss the lessons learned from German Unification and how we might best apply them.

“If you are to go out sir, then we’ll all go out together” – The Heroics of Tom Crean

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…

Explore Grangegorman before the institutions

Raymond Gillespie, MRIA is Professor of History at Maynooth University. His main research interest is social change in early modern Ireland. In this article, Professor…

ARINS podcast episode 12: Participatory Constitutionalism and the Agenda for Change

In this episode, Joanne McEvoy and Fidelma Ashe explore the ways in which including and encouraging popular engagement can not only enrich constitutional discussion but…