Blogs

Documenting a conquest: The RIA copies of the ‘Books of Survey and Distribution’

For this month’s Library blog post, Dr John Gibney, Assistant Editor with the Royal Irish Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series, looks at an…

Brehon law manuscripts reunited for Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture

This month’s Library Blog post looks at the sixteenth-century Irish law manuscript from the Academy collection currently on display in Galway City Museum.

Printers’ devices from the Royal Irish Academy’s early print collections: Johannes Hamman.

This is the first in a series of posts exploring printers’ devices in the early printed books of the library’s collections.

Foclóir Gaeilge Mháirtín Uí Chadhain

‘Suigh síos agus déan do chuairt. Is iomaí lá sa reilig orainn…’

Launch of ‘Ireland: A voice among the nations’

On Wednesday 27 November the RIA’s new illustrated history of Irish foreign affairs was launched by Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon…

A Harp made for the Bard of Erin – John Egan’s Enterprising Product Placement

Thank you to Nancy Hurrell, our guest writer for this month’s Library Blog post.

Research Infrastructures: A REaL Research Resource

In the third of the series, Mike Hynes, School of Political Science & Sociology, National University of Ireland Galway’, discusses the case for a REaL…

One hundred years of Irish foreign policy

Read an extract from our new centenary history of Irish foreign policy, Ireland: a voice among the nations.