Blogs

The business of leisure: entertainment ephemera in the collection of the Royal Irish Academy

For this month’s Library blog post Alison FitzGerald and Joy Sherwood of Maynooth University take a look at the weird and wonderful in popular entertainment…

Who was Paul Strzelecki?

This month’s Library Blog post takes a look at our current exhibition ‘A Forgotten Polish Hero of the Great Irish Famine: Paul Strzelecki’s Struggle to…

Thomas Moore at 240!

In this month’s Library blog post Harry White, MRIA, Professor of Music, University College Dublin, takes a look at our current exhibition Discovering Thomas Moore:…

Two women and the Royal Irish Academy

In this month’s Library Blog post, Turlough O’Riordan of the Dictionary of Irish Biography, looks at the issues surrounding the election of women to the…

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.

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…