Blogs

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.

Archives of William McFadden Orr MRIA, FRS

The latest library guest blog post by Brian Patrick McArdle reflects on the Royal Irish Academy’s archive collection of William McFadden Orr MRIA, FRS (1866–1934).

Jan Łukasiewicz, Professor of Mathematical Logic at the Royal Irish Academy

The latest library guest blog post by Dr Eoin Kinsella, Managing Editor, Dictionary of Irish Biography reflects on the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) exhibition about…

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…

“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…

Ogam script in the RIA Library collections

In our latest Library Blog post guest blogger Deborah Hayden, Department of Early Irish, Maynooth University takes a fascinating look at the Irish language writing…

Celebrating RIA Library Irish language collections during Seachtain na Gaeilge

Latest Library blog post. In March, the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) collaborated with the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Library to promote Irish language collections…