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A colourful collaboration
Library Blog post. The Royal Irish Academy Library recently collaborated with The Watercolour World, an online resource of watercolour paintings from before 1900.
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A short note on some sculptures
For this month’s Library blog post we take a little look at some of the Academy’s sculptures
James Hardiman: An Epistolary Life
In this month’s Library Blog post Dr. Ciaran McDonough looks at the James Hardiman papers and how letters can be so valuable when writing historical
Bringing the Stowe Missal to life
This month’s Library Blog post looks at the Stowe Missal. Thank you to our guest writer Lars Nooij for bringing this wonderful manuscript to life.
Memories, manuscripts and medieval ink
Library Blog post. After a visit to the Library last year, Kathleen Reen was inspired to learn more about how the old scribes made ink.
The First Seanad Éireann, women and the Senate Casket — Irishwomen appeal to a spirit of patriotism.
This month’s Library Blog post by Academy Librarian, Siobhán Fitzpatrick.
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
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy
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.