About us
Research Programmes
Our Work
Grants & Awards
Library & Collections
Publishing House
News & Events
Drawing from the well The Irish Traditional Music Archive inspiring new art
Latest Library Blog post. Grace Toland of the Irish Traditional Music Archive, introduces us to a wonderful project connecting artists with archival song, music and…
Library
In pursuit of Arthur Brownlow’s Irish manuscripts
Library Blog post. Dr Bernadette Cunningham traces some of the Irish manuscripts seen by Edward Lhuyd, Welsh antiquary and lexicographer, in 1699 when he visited…
The art of prayer: A codicological analysis of two Academy manuscripts
Latest Library Blog post. A look at two beautiful manuscripts at the end of a very strange year. We wish you all a safe and…
Exploring our archives
Latest Library Blog post. In November the Library participated in the Explore Your Archive social media campaign, here are some of the collections we highlighted.…
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.
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.