Blogs

Boxing Ballymote

This month’s blog post is dedicated to the generous funders of conservation work on the Book of Ballymote. Thank you!

Mrs Somerville – ‘queen of nineteenth-century science’

Fifth and final blog post in our series on the five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition ‘Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth…

What’s in a name? Seán Ó Maoil Chonaire and the Book of Ballycummin ~ RIA MS 23 N 10

This month’s Blog post looks at the Book of Ballycummin, the subject of our 4th Irish Manuscripts Conference taking place 7-8 March.

New exhibition series in the National Archives of Ireland on 100 years of the Irish Foreign Service, 1919-2019

In conjunction with our colleagues in the National Archives of Ireland we are curating a series of monthly exhibitions on the history of Irish foreign…

Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova: the woman who broke through the ‘august sanctuary’ of the male-dominated Russian Academy

Dr Angela Byrne writes about Princess Dashkova for the fourth Blog post in our series on the five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition ‘Prodigies…

Making a new Book of Knockninny 1718

Three hundred years ago this month, Irish scribes were busy working on a new Irish manuscript. It was to be known as the Book of…

Researching the history of Irish printing

The Latest Library Blog post has been written by one of our international Readers, Irish-American printer, Jim Wilder.

Launched: Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Volume XI

The latest instalment of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, covering 1957-1961, has just been published.