Recent acquisitions of books in the Royal Irish Academy Library: an alphabetical list
April – June 2017
The Celtic poets: songs and tales from early Ireland and Wales / Translated and introduced by Patrick K. Ford, Ford & Bailie, 1999.
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, Tudor period, 1509-1547 / Edited by Steven G. Ellis and James Murray, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2017.
Jonas of Bobbio: The Life of Columbanus, Life of John of Réomé, and Life of Vedast / Translated with introduction and commentary by Alexander O'Hara and Ian Wood, Liverpool UP, 2017.
Dress and society: contributions from archaeology / edited by Toby F. Martin and Rosie Weetch, Oxbow Books, 2017.
Celtic cosmology: perspectives from Ireland and Scotland / Edited by Jacqueline Borsje, Ann Dooley, Séamus Mac Mathúna, and Gregory Toner, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2014.
But can I start a sentence with ‘but’? : advice from the Chicago style Q&A / The University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff with a foreword by Carol Fisher Saller, University of Chicago Press, 2016.
MLA Handbook: eighth edition, Modern Language Association of America, 2016.
60 at Roscrea: celebrating the Roscrea conference at Mt St Joseph Abbey, Roscrea, Co Tipperary, 1987-2017 / Edited by George Cunningham, Roscrea People, 2017.
Logainmneacha Dhún Chaoin, Co. Chiarraí, Comharchumann Dhún Chaoin, 2017.
Ollam: studies in Gaelic and related traditions in honor of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh / Edited by Matthieu Boyd, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
Scoti Peregrini in St. Jakob: 800 Jahre irisch-schottische Kultur in Regensburg, Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 2005.
Archaeology 2025: strategic pathways for archaeology in Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, [2017]
The Poems of Olivia Elder: NLI, MS 23254 / edited by Andrew Carpenter, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2017.
Belfast Somme 100: Remembering the Battles of the Somme - Events guide, History Hub Ulster, 2016.
Creative centenaries: exploring our past together / led by Nerve Centre [2016 Programme] Nerve Centre, 2016.
Decade of centenaries: Belfast reflections on 1916, Belfast City Council, 2016.
Orange and Green: Derry and the First World War / an exhibition by Seamus Breslin of The Templemore Great War History Society; produced in association with Guildhall Press, [Guildhall Press] 2016.
Decade of anniversaries toolkit: understanding our past, shaping our future, Northern Ireland Community Relations Council and Heritage Lottery Fund, 2016.
The Easter Rising / the story of Winifred Carney; The Battle of the Somme / the story of William McFadzean, [Nerve Centre] 2016.
Constitutional conversations [1-6] Royal Irish Academy, 2017.
Royal Irish Academy: admittance of new members 27 May 2017, Royal Irish Academy, 2017.
As smaointe tig gníomh: Coláiste Uladh, an Ghaeilge agus 1916 / eagarthóir Seosamh Ó Ceallaigh, Coiste Cuimhneachain Choláiste Uladh, 2017.
Royal Irish Academy: members' handbook 2017-20, Royal Irish Academy, 2017.
The Cambridge social history of modern Ireland / Edited by Eugenio F. Biagini and Mary E. Daly, Cambridge UP, 2017.
Art history after Françoise Henry: 50 years at UCD - 1965-2015 / Edited by Carla Briggis, Nicola Figgis, Lynda Mulvin, Paula Murphy, UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy and Gandon Editions, 2016.
Equality of opportunity for girls in education: intervention projects in physics and chemistry/ Comhdheiseanna do chailíní san oideachas: tionscadail idirghabhála i bhFisic agus i gCeimic, [Department of education] s.a.
Equality of opportunity for girls in education: intervention projects in physics and chemistry, Department of Education, s.a.
Monaghan history and society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county / Editor Patrick J. Duffy, Geography Publications, 2017.
Annual report 2015 / Institute of Conservator-Restorers in Ireland, Institute of Conservator-Restorers in Ireland, [2015]
Strategic plan 2016-2020 / Institute of Conservator-Restorers in Ireland, Institute of Conservator-Restorers in Ireland, [2016]
Swords Castle, Archaeology Ireland, 2017.
Córus Bésgnai: an Old Irish law tract on the church and society / edited by Liam Breatnach, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2017.
Hilda Tweedy and the Irish Housewives Association: links in the chain ... / Alan Hayes, editor, Arlen House, 2012.
Early common petitions in the English parliament, c.1290-c.1420 / Edited by W. Mark Ormrod, Helen Killick, and Phil Bradford, Cambridge UP, 2017.
Bardgett, Richard D. Plant trait-based approaches for interrogating belowground function / Richard D. Bardgett, Royal Irish Academy, 2017.
Berger, Sidney E. The dictionary of the book: a glossary for book collectors, booksellers, librarians, and others / Sidney E. Berger, Rowman and Littlefield, 2016.
Bhreathnach-Lynch, Síghle: 50 works of Irish art you need to know / Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch, Gill & Macmillan, 2015.
Black, Eileen: Window to an age: a chronicle of art in Belfast, 1760-1888 / Eileen Black, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2016.
Brady, Joseph: Dublin in the 1950s and 1960s: cars, shops and suburbs / Joseph Brady, Four Courts, 2017.
Broderick, Eugene: John Hearne: architect of the 1937 Constitution of Ireland / Eugene Broderick, Irish Academic Press, 2017.
Burke, L. D. (Laurence Declan), MRIA, 1939-2011 Buckley, D. T. Anomalous stability of acid-grown hydrous platinum oxide films in aqueous media / L.D. Burke and D.T. Buckley, Elsevier Sequoia, 1994.
Burke, L. D. (Laurence Declan), MRIA, 1939-2011: Premonolayer and its role in electrocatalysis / L.D. Burke,
Burke, L. D. (Laurence Declan), MRIA, 1939-2011: An interfacial mediator interpritation of noble metal electrocatalysis / By professor L.D. Burke, Johnson Matthey, 1994.
Cantwell, Ian: Friends in times of turmoil: the story of consul Dobrzynski, the first Polish diplomat to Ireland, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dublin, 2017.
Casey, Christine: Making magnificence: architects, stuccatori and the eighteenth-century interior / Christine Casey, Yale UP, 2017.
Collini, Stefan: Speaking of universities / Stefan Collini, Verso, 2017.
Conwell, John Joe: Portumna: a Galway parish by the Shannon / by John Joe Conwell, John Joe Conwell, 2017.
Daly, Mary E., MRIA, 1948- [Professor Mary Daly, PRIA: email to Members of the Royal Irish Academy] 09-Mar-2017.
De Bréadún, Deaglán: Cinnlínte: saol an Iriseora / Deaglán de Bréadún, Cois Life, 2016.
De Bréadún, Deaglán: Scéalta Nuachta / Deaglán de Bréadún, LeabhairComhar, 2016.
Dobrzynska-Cantwell, Krystyna: 'An unusual diplomat': Dobrzynski biography / Krystyna Dobrzynska-Cantwell, Polish Cultural Foundation, 1998.
Dooley, Terence: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23: Monaghan / Terence Dooley, Four Courts, 2017.
Faulkes, Zen: Slipping past the barricades: the illegal trade of pet crayfish in Ireland / Zen Faulkes, Royal Irish Academy, 2017.
Flexner, Abraham: The usefulness of useless knowledge / Abraham Flexner; with a companion essay by Robbert Dijkgraaf, Princeton University Press, 2017.
Fomin, Maxim: Instructions for kings: secular and clerical images of kingship in early Ireland and ancient India / Maxim Fomin, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013.
Hunt, Una: Sources and style in Moore’s Irish Melodies / Una Hunt, Routledge, 2017.
Hunter, Michael: Boyle Studies: aspects of the life and thought of Robert Boyle (1627-91) / Michael Hunter, Ashgate, 2015.
The Irish Hospice Foundation: Our impact 1986-2016: celebrating 30 years of what your charitable giving has achieved, Irish Hospice Foundation, 2016.
Jiang, Shan Kavanagh, Mark Rocha, Carlos: Evaluation of thr suitability of vacutainers for storage of nutrient and dissolved organic carbon analytes in water samples / Shan Jiang, Mark Kavanagh and Carlos Rocha, Royal Irish Academy, 2017.
Jones, Valerie: Rebel prods: the forgotten story of Protestant radical nationalists and the 1916 Rising / Valerie Jones, Ashfield Press, 2016.
Kenealy, Edward Vaughan, 1819-1880: Poems and translations / by Edward Vaughan Kenealy, Reeves and Turner, 1864.
Kildea, Jeff: Hugh Mahon: patriot, pressman, politician. Vol. 1: Patriot and pressman: the years from 1857 to 1901 / Jeff Kildea, Anchor Books Australia, 2017.
Kinealy, Christine: Frederick Douglass in Éirinn / Christine Kinealy, Coiscéim, 2016.
Mac Maoláin, Breandán: Rabharta agus mallmhuir i mBéal Feirste / Breandán Mac Maoláin, Coiscéim, 2016.
MacMahon, Bryan: The Great Famine in Tralee and North Kerry / Brian MacMahon, Mercier Press, 2017.
McLaughlin, Rowan Lyttleton, James: An archaeology of Northern Ireland, 1600-1650 / Rowan McLaughlin & James Lyttleton, Dept of Communities, 2017.
Mhic Niallais, Máire: Scéal duine: scéal pobail: léargas ar chuid de phearsana Ghaeltacht Thír Chonaill / Máire Mhic Niallais, Naas Printers, 2016.
Minchin, Dan Penk, Marcin Igoe, Fran: Evidence of the winter occurrence of the whitefish Coregonus pollan Thompson, 1835 in the Shannon river, Ireland / Dan Minchin, Marcin Penk and Fran Igoe, Royal Irish Academy, 2017.
Moniruzzaman, M. Yaakob, Zahira Khatun, Rahima Awang, Nadhirah: Mealbug (Pseudococcidae0 infestation and organic control in fig (Ficus Carica) orchards of Malaysia / M. Moniruzzaman, Zahira Yaakob, Rahima Khatun and Nadhirah Awang, Royal Irish Academy, 2017.
Murphy, Martin: The Duchess of Rio Tinto: the story of Mary Herbert and Joseph Gage / by Martin Murphy, St Clements Press, 2015.
Newby, A.G. Éire na Rúise: an Fhionlainn agus Éire ar thóir na saoirse / A. G. Newby, Coiscéim, 2016.
Ó Baoighill, Pádraig: Conradh na Gaeilge in Albain: agus aistí Albanacha eile / Pádraig Ó Baoighill, Coiscéim, 2017.
Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, MRIA, 1942- The Irish church, its reform and the English invasion / Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Four Courts Press, 2017.
Ó Doibhilín, Mícheál: Josie McGowan: the true daughter of Éireann / Mícheál Ó Doibhilín, Wild Apple Press, 2017.
Ó Fathartaigh, Micheál: Irish agriculture nationalised: the Dairy Disposal Company and the making of the modern Irish dairy industry / Micheál Ó Fathartaigh, Institute of Public Administration, 2014.
Ó hEanacháin, S. An Ghaeilge i Maigh Nuad / Seán Ó hÉanacháin, Cló Iar Chonnacht, 2016.
Ó Mainnín, Mícheál B. Annexing Irish names to the English tongue: language contact and the anglicisation of Irish place-names / Mícheál B. Ó Mainnín, School of Celtic Studies, Maynooth University, 2017.
O’Neill, James: The Nine Years War, 1593-1603: O'Neill, Mountjoy and the military revolution / James O'Neill, Four Courts Press, 2017.
Ó Snodaigh, Colm: Dún Chaoin: oscail an scoil! / Colm Ó Shodaigh, Coiscéim, 2017.
Orr, Jennifer: Literary networks and dissenting print culture in Romantic-Period Ireland / Jennifer Orr, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Owen, Janet: Darwin's apprentice: an archaeological biography of John Lubbock / Janet Owen, Pen and sword archaeology, 2013.
Petrovskaia, Natalia I. Medieval Welsh perceptions of the Orient / by Natalia I. Petrovskaia, Brepols, 2015.
Pollard, Mary, MRIA, 1922-2005: Notes on Trinity College Library's copy of Berkeley's 'Querist', part three, 1973.
Pollock, Dave: Barryscourt Castle, Co. Cork: archaeology, history and architecture / Dave Pollock, Dept of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs, 2017.
Powell, John Stocks: Portarlington 1666: Catholics, Portuguese, French and cartographers / by John Stocks Powell, Author, 2017.
Powell, John Stocks: Portarlington's freedom-fighter: France's terrorist / by John Stocks Powell, Author, 2017.
Powell, John Stocks: York Minster and Ireland / By John Stocks Powell, John Stocks Powell, 2017.
Rushen, Elizabeth Gibson, Kathlyn: Anastasia: from Callan to Stockyard Creek / Elizabeth Rushen & Kathlyn Gibson, Anchor Books Australia, 2017.
Schmidt, Benjamin: Inventing exoticism: geography, globalism and Europe’s early modern world / Benjamin Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Sheehan, Seán: Jack’s world: farming on the Sheep’s Head peninsula, 1920-2003 / Seán Sheehan, Atrium Press, 2007.
Smith, Margaret: Forger, freemason, freeman: Samuel Clayton / Margaret Smith, Anchor Books Australia, 2017.
Stroh, Silke: Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial imagination: Anglophone writing from 1600 to 1900 / Silke Stroh, Northwestern University Press, 2017.
Sword, Helen: The writer’s diet: a guide to fit prose / Helen Sword, University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Thomas, á Kempis: Searc-Leanmhain Chríost: a gceithre leabhraibh. Aisdrighthe ua'n Laidion mbunusdhasach... / le Tomas A Kempis, 1822.
Townend, Paul A. The road to Home Rule: anti-imperialism and the Irish national movement / Paul A. Townend, Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2016.
Wilder, James C. James Duffy: from Irish book peddler to prominent Catholic publisher, Wild Apple Press, 2017.
Wyatt, David, 1948- Slaves and warriors in medieval Britain and Ireland, 800-1200 / By David Wyatt, Brill, 2009.