Agents

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy
repositories (institutions) – See also: Manuscript repositories

Publications (1)

Royal Irish Academy (ed.), Archive of Celtic-Latin literature, Online: Brepols, 2010–. URL: <http://www.brepols.net>.

Brepols – Index (PDF): <link>

See also: William BethamBetham (William)
(1779–1853)
(Sir) William Betham, English antiquary and collector of manuscripts; member of the Royal Irish Academy
See more William Elliott HudsonHudson (William Elliott)
(1796–1853)
Like his better-known brother, Henry Philerin Hudson, a composer, collector of Irish folk songs and member of the Royal Irish Academy; patron of a number of literary societies and a friend of Young Irelander Thomas Davis.
See more Tomás Ó GormáinÓ Gormáin (Tomás)
(1732–1809)
Ó Gormáin (Chevalier)
No short description available
See more Breandán Ó MadagáinÓ Madagáin (Breandán)
(1932–2020)
Irish scholar and writer.
See more Joseph Cooper WalkerWalker (Joseph Cooper)
(1761–1810)
No short description available
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Sources

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (journal), Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 1836–present

Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy (journal), Dublin, Royal Irish Academy

Secondary sources (select)

Mulchrone, Kathleen, Thomas F. OʼRahilly, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, and A. I. Pearson, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, 8 vols, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1926–1970.

8 volumes: Vol. 1, pp. 1–654 (fasc. 1-5) -- Vol. 2, pp. 655–1294 (fasc. 6-10) -- Vol. 3, pp. 1295–1938 (fasc. 11-15) -- Vol. 4, pp. 1939–2578 (fasc. 16-20) -- Vol. 5, pp. 2579–3220 (fasc. 21-25) -- Vol. 6, pp. 3221–3500 (fasc. 26-27) -- Vol. 7 (index 1) -- Vol. 8 (index 2).

Contains descriptions of about 1400 manuscripts. Later additions described elsewhere include RIA MSS 23 L 59, 23 L 60 and 23 M 70.

Cunningham, Bernadette, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, and Petra Schnabel (eds), Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2009.

OʼNeill, Timothy, “Quills, inks and vellums”, in: Bernadette Cunningham, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, and Petra Schnabel (eds), Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2009. 45–49.

Dougan, R. O. [comp.], A descriptive guide to twenty Irish manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin: with an appendix of five early Irish manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, 2nd ed., Dublin: Dublin University Press, Trinity College, 1955.

Phair, P. B., “Sir William Betham’s manuscripts”, Analecta Hibernica 27 (1972): 1–99.

Fitzpatrick, Siobhán, “The heavens, earth and imagined islands: an introduction to the medieval medical and astronomical resources of the Royal Irish Academy Library”, in: Mary Kelly, and Charles Doherty (eds), Music and the stars: mathematics in medieval Ireland, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013. 159–195.