Blogs

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…

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…

‘The Doegen Records: putting faces to voices from the past’

The latest Library blog post commemorates the 90th anniversary of the recording of Irish speakers by Dr Wilhelm Doegen of Berlin and celebrates new images…

Miss Edgeworth advises …

Second in our Blog post series on the five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition ‘Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century.’ This…

Caroline Herschel – ‘Comet-searcher’

First in our Blog post series on five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition ‘Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century.’ This month…

Not just bricks & mortar

Latest Library Blog post: A short film about the Royal Irish Academy Library