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1 May 2025
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Do you love our library? We have lots happening from manuscript displays, exhibitions and, too good not to mention, our gorgeous reading room.
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30 Apr 2025
@CarlowWeather Hi Carlow Weather! Some of your followers might be interested our events coming up next month! The Library has a lecture and exhibition about early meteorological records in Ireland and the @RIAdawson Discourse Series has event on AI and forecasting tomorrow night!
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28 Apr 2025
The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS C vi 1, the Book of Knockninny. This 18th C manuscript has not yet been fully digitised, so all the more reason to drop in and visit us. You can read about the manuscript and its contents here: ria.ie/collections/manuscrip…
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28 Apr 2025
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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14 Apr 2025
The Manuscript of the Week is the Book of Uí Mhaine, RIA MS D ii 1. The contents of this 14th C manuscript are described in a marginal note as ‘bolg an tsolathair’ (bag of mixed content). Read more & find a link to the @DIAS_ISOS digital copy here: ria.ie/collections/manuscrip…
ALT Detail from the manuscript focused on a zoomorphic decoration coloured with red ink.
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14 Apr 2025
The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library 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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16 Apr 2025
Apologies, Monday-Thursday. The Library will close on Thursday evening for the Easter weekend.
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16 Apr 2025
Please note that the Library will be closed over the Easter Weekend from Friday 18 April to Monday 21 April. We re-open at 10am on Tuesday morning for readers and visitors.
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7 Apr 2025
The Manuscript of the Week is a 15th C compilation of medical treatises, RIA MS 23 P 10 (iii). The scribe has used a selection of whimsical line fillers & run-over symbols to enhance the "mise-en-page". Read more & see the @DIAS_ISOS digital copy here: isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_23_P…
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7 Apr 2025
The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from **14.00 -16.30 on Monday**, and from 10.00-16.30 Tuesday - Friday. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view the MS of the Week.
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2 Apr 2025
📢 NEW BLOG 📢 Check out our new blog about a 19th century work-from-home faith healer, Prince Hohenlohe! Could two Irish women have been healed by a Bamburg-based prince? Read our blog and find out! ria.ie/blog/prince-hohenlohe…
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1 Apr 2025
The Manuscript of the Week is the Annals of Connacht, RIA MS C iii 1. This manuscript records the history of Gaelic Ireland for over three hundred years from AD 1224-1544! The years are visible in the margins. Read more & see the @DIAS_ISOS digital copy: ria.ie/collections/manuscrip…
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1 Apr 2025
The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library 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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24 Mar 2025
The Manuscript of the Week is the Book of Fermoy, RIA MS 23 E 29. This 15th C compilation of Irish texts is associated with the Anglo-Norman Roche family, who came to Ireland from Pembrokeshire in the 12th C. Read more & see the @DIAS_ISOS digital copy: ria.ie/collections/manuscrip…
ALT Detail from an Irish manuscript showing a decorated capital in black ink.
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24 Mar 2025
The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library from 10.00-16.30, Monday – Friday, except for our scheduled closure this Tuesday morning until 2pm. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view the MS of the Week.
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18 Mar 2025
The Manuscript of the Week is a book of court verse known as the O'Gara manuscript (RIA MS 23 F 16). Compiled in the Low Countries in the 17th century, it was written by Feargal Dubh Ó Gadhra, O.S.A. Learn more & see a digitised copy via @DIAS_ISOS here: isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_23_F…
ALT Irish paper manuscript with verse written in a single column.
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18 Mar 2025
The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library from 10.00-16.30, Tuesday – Friday. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view the MS of the Week.
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