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Boxing Ballymote
This month’s blog post is dedicated to the generous funders of conservation work on the Book of Ballymote. Thank you!
Library
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
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.
Bishop John O’Brien and his 250 year-old Irish Dictionary
In this month’s Library blog post, Charles Dillon, Editor of the Royal Irish Academy’s Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge, examines how O’Brien’s Focalóir came about and
Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge
Margaret Stokes: antiquarian scholar with an artist’s eye
We continue our Blog post series on the five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition ‘Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century’. This