Blogs

The artist and the presidents

The latest Library Blog post highlights the works of artist Sarah Purser at Academy House.

Printed books in Irish in the Royal Irish Academy Library

The latest Library blog post looks at our collection of Irish language books.

A French art historian in Ireland

Latest Library Blog post. Peter Harbison, MRIA, looks at the works of art historian and archaeologist Françoise Henry, MRIA, the subject of our current exhibition…

Researching our medieval Irish manuscripts: impact of digitisation

Irish Script on Screen has opened up a world of manuscripts for scholars the latest Library Blog post looks at how digitisation has contributed to…

Table-Turning: a Victorian fad

This month’s Library Blog post delves into our nineteenth-century pamphlets to get readers into the spirit of Halloween.

Beranger’s painted people himself and others

Dr Peter Harbison, MRIA, takes a closer look at Gabriel Beranger’s watercolours in the latest Library blog post.

Learning to read Irish text, 1727

Learning to read Irish manuscripts is a first step to perpetuating the scholarly tradition cultivated by eighteenth-century Irish scribes and scholars. Latest blog post by…

‘This is a song a robin sang , this morning on a broken tree’

In memoriam Francis Ledwidge, 1887-1917. The latest Library blog post, written by Siobhán Fitzpatrick.