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The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 10 (ii), the Book of O’Lees. It is named after the hereditary medical family who would have valued the diagnostic tables contained within. It is also known as the Book of Hy-Brasil due to a 17th century a member of the family telling a ‘wild story’...

We’re pleased to announce the appointment of Lynn Scarff as Executive Director of the Royal Irish Academy. The President, Professor Pat Guiry, thanked Dr Siobhán O'Sullivan, who stepped down in 2025, for her commitment and contribution to the Academy: www.ria.ie/2026/02/06/l...

LAI Rare Books Group AGM & Annual Lecture. Dr Nora Moroney, exhibition curator "Benjamin Iveagh - a life in books". Online, Wed 18 Feb, at 12.00. The Group is also running an online rare books cataloguing course on Thurs, 26 Feb. Links below! https://ow.ly/AJkB50YcJ8O https://ow.ly/U9qM50YcJ8P

Bígí linn! Léacht Am Lóin le @pomuirch.bsky.social! Cnámha aduaine bíoblóra: Cnámh de chuid Thady Connellan i mbailiúchán an Acadaimh: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

The spring Library newsletter is live! Take a look to discover more about our current exhibition, upcoming events, blogs, podcasts, and more! mailchi.mp/ria.ie/libra...

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 26, the Book of Fenagh. This 16th C manuscript is the work of a skilled scribe, on good quality vellum, and contains both prose and verse. The writing is in double columns and some of the capitals are filled in with red pigment.

Some very fun improvised bindings amongst the items called up by a reader today! #SpéirGorm

The MS of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 2, the Book of Lecan. It is an early 15th-century compilation of Irish genealogical, historical, biblical & hagiographical material. Read more and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social & copyright @ria.ie: www.ria.ie/collections/...

For the weekend that's in it, why not read a Life of St Brigid, or, Betha Brigte. An Leabhar Breac (RIA MS 23 P 16) contains a copy of the Life on starting on p. 61. You can see the "incipit" (Latin for "beginning") outlined in red pigment here, with Brigte spilling over from one line onto another.

The MS of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 6, The Annals of the Four Masters. This volume covers the years A.D. 1170-1499. Each year’s entry is headed, “Aois Cr[íost]” or “Age of Christ” followed by the year denoted by Arabic numerals. Underneath, the year is repeated but written out in full in Irish.

We were delighted to virtually welcome the @komldsp.bsky.social programme cohort this week for a workshop via our visualiser with a few treasures from our collections! 📜🎉

We are thrilled to share this new blog post by Rebecca Cairns about Irish botanist, John Templeton (1766-1825), and his seminal manuscript catalogue of native Irish plants, which we have loaned to @ulstermuseum.org for a special display celebrating 200 years of his legacy. www.ria.ie/blog/the-cat...

Superb talk by @emilymfg.bsky.social on Casimir Markievicz earlier today, coinciding with the new panel exhibition @rialibrary.bsky.social reflecting his life in Bohemian Dublin in the early twentieth century 🎨🎭

Today's Lunchtime Lecture about Casimir Markievicz by Dr Emily Mark-Fitzgerald booked out last night, but some cancellations are trickling through this morning. These will be automatically updated here if you wish to join us! www.tickettailor.com/events/royal... @emilymfg.bsky.social

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS B ii 1, Astronomical tract. It is based on a medieval Latin version of a work by Messahalah, a Jew of Alexandria who wrote in Arabic c. 815. The frontispiece is an astronomical rotula with a moveable index attached, illuminated with red and yellow pigment...

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