You can buy our beautiful boxed set of Lebor Gabála Érenn, The Book of the Taking of Ireland, through @ria.ie. The updated link is here: shop.ria.ie/products/iri...

A good point! This links to all the boxed sets available. Thanks! irishtextssociety.org/publications...

Kris Hughes@krishughes.bsky.social · last wk.

A direct link to the box set page would be so useful. It's not easy to find it on your website.

Our beautiful boxed set of the six volumes of Lebor Gabála Érenn – the Book of the Taking of Ireland - is back in (limited) stock. You can order it through your local bookshop or online from the Royal Irish Academy bookshop shop.ria.ie.

‘Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250’ by Edel Bhreathnach (Four Courts Press) is one of the shortlisted books for the 2026 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction. Read more about the prize and shortlist on the RIA website: www.ria.ie/2026/07/03/s...

The 13th annual Celtic Students Conference by @celticstudents.bsky.social starts this Thursday! It will be held in TCD and over Zoom, with live interpretation for Irish, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic papers. The schedule and registration link can be found at linktr.ee/celticstuden...

Today is the feast day of St Columba (Colum Cille), who according to tradition, wrote the Cathach (RIA MS 12 R 33). This month it will be on display in the @rialibrary.bsky.social on 26 June from 10:00-16:30. Come visit!

Library of the Royal Irish Academy@rialibrary.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today is the feast day of St Columba (Colum Cille), who according to tradition, wrote the Cathach (RIA MS 12 R 33) as a copy of a Latin psalter belonging to St Finnian in a single night. A dispute arose about the ownership of the copy leading to the battle of Cúl Dreimne in AD 561.

Our annual Noel O’Connell Memorial Lecture, organized with the Irish Literary Society, will be given tomorrow, Thursday, at 7.30pm by Nollaig Ó Muraíle on 'James Hardiman and his manuscript collection in the British Library’, at the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith. All are welcome.

#ACIS is officially on BlueSky, just in time for the #NationalACIS26 conference in Denver from May 27-31!

Our annual Noel O’Connell Memorial Lecture, organized with the Irish Literary Society will be given next week by Nollaig Ó Muraíle on 'James Hardiman and his manuscript collection in the British Library’ at the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith on Thursday, 28 May 2026 at 7.30 p.m.

Great news! The Society’s multitalented, multitasking Hon. Secretary, Kevin Murray, has been appointed co-editor of Éigse. www.nui.ie/what-we-do/n...

New Editors of Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies - National University of Ireland

The Chancellor of the National University of Ireland, Professor Michael Murphy, is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Regina Uí Chollatáin (College Principal and Dean of the College of A...

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The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS D ii 1, Book of Uí Mhaine and it is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-16.30, Monday - Friday. Come visit! Check @rialibrary.bsky.social to learn more about this MS and explore highlights from the Library’s collections.

Library of the Royal Irish Academy@rialibrary.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS D ii 1, Book of Uí Mhaine or the Book of Hy Many. The contents of this late 14th century manuscript are described in a marginal note as ‘bolg an tsolathair’ (bag of mixed content/miscellany).

Hot off the presses! Irish Among the Languages: Late Victorian Developments in Education by Phyllis Gaffney. Available now through your local bookshop or online from @RIAdawson at shop.ria.ie for the remarkably reasonable price of €7.50.

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 10(iii) and it is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-16.30, Monday - Thursday. Come visit! Check @rialibrary.bsky.social to learn more about this MS and explore highlights from the Library’s collections.

Library of the Royal Irish Academy@rialibrary.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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.

Our annual Noel O’Connell Memorial Lecture, jointly organised with the Irish Literary Society, will be given this year by Nollaig Ó Muraíle on 'James Hardiman and his manuscript collection in the British Library’ at the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, on Thursday, 28 May 2026 at 7.30 p.m.

Our President Ruairí Ó hUiginn recently gave a great overview of the Ulster Cycle on the Medieval Irish History podcast. Well worth a listen. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

The Ulster Cycle with Prof. Ruairí Ó hUiginn

Podcast Episode · The Medieval Irish History Podcast · 13 February · 55min

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🚨 The next Bonn+Marburg online Celtic Seminar is next week, 9th Feb, 18:00 CET. 💬 Nina Cnockaert-Guillou: "Scribes, manuscripts and words: coming to terms with different versions of Acallam na Senórach" @disappearingtext.bsky.social To get the link, please contact celtic@uni-bonn.de 🔗

Our speaker, Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, School of Irish, @tcddublin, will show the importance of the harper at the Gaelic court, the symbolic significance of the harp, and the reception of harping performances.

Binn gotha na dtéad | The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry

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A reminder that our annual Ó Buachalla Lecture is coming up next Wednesday, 3rd December at 6.30 pm and will examine literary descriptions of harpers, harps and harp music in bardic poems between the 13th and 17th centuries. irishtextssociety.org/obuachalla-l...

In breaking news, the Society has launched the proceedings of our 25th Annual Seminar, organised with @ucc.ie, which looked at “Sgéalta Uí Chathasaigh, Mayo Stories Told by Thomas Casey” collected, edited and translated by Douglas Hyde (Vol. 36 Main Series 1939).

Join us online for this year’s Breandán Ó Buachalla Lecture, organised with the support of @nlireland.bsky.social. The lecture, “The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry” will be given by Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh. Registration now open www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

Binn gotha na dtéad

The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry

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The Scriptorium was buzzing this year, delivering two new editions in our main series, Vol 69 On the Faults of Poetry: An Edition of Irish Grammatical Tracts V, and Vol 70 Táin Bó Fliodhaise - The Cattle Raid of Fliodhais. A greater contrast in subject, content and style you could not imagine.

Our annual seminar jointly organised with @ucc.ie is happening this Saturday in the Venice of the North. Full details at irishtextssociety.org/events. This year we’re looking at The Life of Saint Declan of Ardmore.

Plunging headlong into the 21st Century, we are now on Bluesky. You can still follow us on the platform formerly known as Twitter @IrishTextsSoc and our website irishtextssociety.org