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New donation: Harding’s Dublin Impartial Newsletter

The RIA Library is delighted to have acquired an edition of a rare 18th century newspaper.

New acquisition: An Post Collection

The RIA Library is pleased to announce the donation of an important collection of records, books and artefacts from the Museum & Archive of An…

Medieval deeds in the Guild of St Anne Collection

The RIA Library and the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland announce a new project to provide enhanced online access to a collection of deeds that…

New Irish History Online (IHO) website launched

The Royal Irish Academy Library is delighted to announce the newly updated IHO website.

CONUL Erasmus Library Staff Mobility week, 24-28 June 2024

Read about the Library’s participation in the Consortium of National and University Libraries (CONUL) Erasmus programme.

Máistir-rang do mhic léinn iarchéime le Fionntán de Brún

Ar an 24 Feabhra 2024, tháinig mic léinn iarchéime ó gach cearn den tír chuig Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann le haghaidh máistir-rang a d’eagraigh Coiste…

Heritage Council funding received for RIA Library project ‘The Birds of Ireland’.

The RIA Library is delighted to announce that we have received funding from the Heritage Council as part of the Heritage Stewardship Fund for our…

Launch of new Library catalogue

To make the Library’s unique and distinct collections more accessible and searchable, we have moved our existing catalogue records to a new Library catalogue

Artworks to mark the feast of Colm Cille

The artworks were commissioned as part of the Colm Cille 1500 commemoration and were received in Academy House today.

7 new artworks to celebrate Colm Cille’s 1500th anniversary

The commissions are in the visual arts, music and literature and have been commissioned by the RIA with the support of the Department of Foreign…

Quarks, Joyce and two twentieth-century physicists!

On 3 December the family of Professor Kevin Carroll, MRIA (1926-2016) presented the Academy with his signed first-edition copy of Finnegans Wake. We are delighted…

Dublin Rising 1916-2016

Academy partners with Google to launch virtual tour.