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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Did you know the RIA Library issues a quarterly e-newsletter? ✉️ The Autumn 2026 edition is available here: us6.campaign-archive.com?u=f64b0c0a4c... Make sure to subscribe and be the first to hear about our lectures, tours, exhibitions and events!

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-16.30, Monday-Friday, except 12:00-13:00 on Monday, when the library will close for one hour due to industrial action. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view the MS of the Week.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS C vi 1, the Book of Knockninny. The manuscript was compiled in 1718 for Brian Mág Uidhir of Knockninny, Co. Fermanagh. It contains a selection of historical poems and prose texts. You can listen to two Library Lunchtime Lectures about this manuscript at the link!

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In the words of Chandler Bing, "Could this printer's device BE any tinier?" Attention to detail, as always, from a great Dublin printing house, At the Sign of the Three Candles.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-16.30, Monday-Friday. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view the MS of the Week.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 M 70, Leabhar Gabhála/Book of Invasions. This is not the name of a specific manuscript but of an origin legend of the Irish people that exists in variant versions, traced to the 7th C. This copy was produced in 1631 by the scholars known as the Four Masters.

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Dr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou @ninacnock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Really happy with this piece now published in the magazine "Istor Breizh" (in French), about the Irish manuscript tradition from the 11th to the 19th century. Many thanks to @rialibrary.bsky.social for allowing me to reproduce pictures of the manuscripts! istorbreizh.bzh/produit/nume...

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Image: Collage of images from the Robert Lloyd Praeger glass plate negative collection, Royal Irish Academy.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Investing in Dublin: Tontines, Women, and Financial Life in 19th century Ireland. 1pm, Wed 7 Oct. How did Dubliners use tontines to pay for community projects? How did women help to fund the Dublin-Drogheda railway? Join us for a Library Lunchtime Lecture @ria.ie . www.ria.ie/events/inves...

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-16.30, Monday-Friday. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view the MS of the Week.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Many folios have been lost over the centuries. There may have been 368 folios in the manuscript in the 15th C and just 157 folios now survive. Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie www.ria.ie/collections/...

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Book of Uí Mhaine / The Book of Hy Many / The Book of the O’Kellys / Book of Ó Dubhagáin - Royal Irish Academy

RIA MS D ii 1 (Cat. no. 1225) c. A.D. 1394

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS D ii 1. The manuscript now known as the Book of Uí Mhaine was written in Irish in the late 14th C. The contents of the Book of Uí Mhaine are described in a marginal note as ‘bolg an tsolathair’ (bag of mixed content/miscellany).

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Don't forget the Library is closed tomorrow, but that we will be open from 5-9pm for @culturenightdub.bsky.social! We're excited to welcome visitors to our beautiful reading room to see the Cathach of Columcille and to meet our colleagues from RIA's research departments! www.ria.ie/work/public-...

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Read our latest blog by Halldóra Kristinsdóttir (National and University Library of Iceland). She describes an Icelandic manuscript in the RIA collection, recently added to Handrit.is. Images were provided by our colleagues at @dias-isos.bsky.social. www.ria.ie/blog/iceland...

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-16.30, Monday-Thursday. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view the MS of the Week. On Friday the Library will be open from 5pm for @culturenightdub.bsky.social and the Cathach will be on display!

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_2...

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MS 23 P 10 (iii) (Royal Irish Academy)

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 10(iii). This 15th century medical manuscript contains a translation of the major part of Book 1 of the Rosa Anglica of John of Gaddesden, with occasional pieces from Bernard of Gordon and Gilbert the Englishman interspersed.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-16.30, Monday - Friday. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view the MS of the Week.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Another gap from 1427-32 (f. 55) occurs without evidence of loss of a text. Here you can see an intentional blank space left after the entry for 1426. In this case, there may have been a leaf missing from the older exemplar being used by the scribe.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS C iii 1, the Annals of Connacht. This manuscript records episodes in the history of Gaelic Ireland from AD 1224 to AD 1544, with one later entry (in different ink) for the year 1562. There are short gaps in the text where a pair of leaves may have been lost.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-16.30, Monday-Friday. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view the MS of the Week.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 E 29, the Book of Fermoy. This compilation of texts dates from between 14th-16th century. It includes material relating to the medieval Roche family and a duanaire (poembook) containing poems attributed to Gearóid Iarla, 3rd earl of Desmond (1338-1398).

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Come visit us in the Library on Culture Night! You can see the Cathach of Columcille on display and learn how to write your name in Ogham! www.ria.ie/2026/08/13/c... You'll also get a chance to meet our colleagues and find out about the research that goes on in the Royal Irish Academy!

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Culture Night in the Library - Royal Irish Academy

Experience the atmosphere of a Victorian library and see the oldest known example of Irish writing, the Cathach of Colum Cille. One night for all, Friday, 18 September from 17:00-21:00.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The Dublin Festival of History programme launched today! Join us in RIA Library for our Lunchtime lecture- Investing in Dublin: Tontines, Women, and Financial Life in Nineteenth Century Ireland! www.eventbrite.ie/e/investing-... or a Tour of the Royal Irish Academy www.eventbrite.ie/e/guided-tou...

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie. The manuscript is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-16.30, Monday-Friday. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view the MS of the Week.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 F 16, the Book of O’Gara. This important collection of poetry, compiled in the 1650s in continental Europe, preserves earlier material from sources that have since been lost.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Image provided by Irish Script on Screen and Copyright RIA.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We are delighted that RIA MS 23 N 17 is the LEIGHEAS project Manuscript of the Month! Our colleagues at @ceilteachomn.bsky.social are advancing knowledge of medical learning in the premodern Gaelic world! Read their latest blog: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who visited the Library for National Heritage Week today to try our family-friendly history trail, see the 'Ink & Innovation' exhibition, and take away special print souvenirs from the National Print Museum team! 📖🎉

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Join us tomorrow afternoon for ‘Ink & Innovation: A Family Printing Workshop’ for #HeritageWeek2026 with a children’s trail and press activity with the National Print Museum! www.heritageweek.ie/event-listin...

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-16.30, Monday - Friday. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view the MS of the Week.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 P 16, Leabhar Breac. It was written in the 15th century in Irish by Murchadh Riabach Ó Cuindlis at Cluain Lethan and Lothra (Lorrha) in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary. It is the largest Irish vellum manuscript by one scribe.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

TFW you're wearing PPE and a book vacuum cleaner on your back while it's heading for 28°C outside. #Stocktaking #AnnualCleaning RIA HT (Box) 478a/1

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Both astronomical manuscripts RIA MSS B ii 1 and 23 F 13 are fully digitised and available to view online the @dias-isos.bsky.social website! www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_B... www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_2...

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MS B ii 1 (Royal Irish Academy)

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Total eclipse of the heart! Did you know we hold two copies of only three known Irish translations of Messahalah's De orbibus coelestibus? Our astronomical tracts date from the 14th or early 15th century, and the third copy is held by our friends at @marshslibrary.bsky.social 🌘🔭

Lunar eclipse diagram, from RIA MS B ii 2, p. 12

Lunar eclipse diagrams, from RIA MS 23 F 13, p. 314

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

You are welcome to explore the manuscripts in our collection that have been digitised by Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Irish Script on Screen. www.isos.dias.ie/collection/r... We look forward to welcoming you again on Monday 17 August.

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Irish Script on Screen - Royal Irish Academy

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A reminder that the library will be closed for the next two weeks for our annual stock take, Monday 3 August to Friday 14 August.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The oldest extant Irish manuscript of the Psalter, the Cathach is likely the earliest example of the Irish writing form known as insular majuscule script. It was digitised by @dias.ie Irish Script on Screen. www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_1...

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MS 12 R 33 (The Cathach) (Royal Irish Academy)

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It is the last Friday of the month, which means the Cathach will be on display today from 10am to 12.15pm, as the library will be closed this afternoon for a staff event.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It was digitised by @dias.ie Irish Script on Screen, available here: www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_1...

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MS 12 R 33 (The Cathach) (Royal Irish Academy)

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A reminder that the library will be closed tomorrow afternoon for a staff event. If you plan to view the Cathach, please come before 12.00 so we can ensure access!

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-16.30, Monday- Thursday. The Cathach of Colum Cille is put on display on the last Friday of the month. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view the MS of the Week.

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This volume covers the period A.D. 1500-1616 and is believed to be part of the Louvain set, which was made to take back to the Irish College there. Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie a.ie

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 P 7, the Annals of the Four Masters. Two full sets of the annals were prepared by the Four Masters and are now divided into multi-volume sets. www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_2...

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MS 23 P 7 (The Annals of the Four Masters) (Royal Irish Academy)

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