Recent acquisitions of books in the Royal Irish Academy Library: an alphabetical list January – March 2017 The Golden Age of State Enquiries: Rural Enquiries in the Nineteenth Century. From fact gathering to political instrument / Edited by Nadine Vivier, Brepols, 2014. Standish O’Grady’s Cuculain: a critical edition / edited by Gregory Castle and Patrick Bixby, Syracuse UP, 2016. Medieval Wexford: essays in memory of Billy Colfer / Ian W. Doyle & Bernard Browne, editors, Four Courts Press, 2016. Patrck Pearse and the Theatre: Mac Piarais agus an téatar / Eugene McNulty & Róisín Ní Ghairbhí, editors, Four Courts Press, 2016. Schools and schooling, 1650–2000: New perspectives on the history of education – the eighth Seamus Heaney lectures / James Kelly & Susan Hegarty, editors, Four Courts Press, 2017. 'Reform' treatises on Tudor Ireland / Edited by David Heffernan, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2016. A decade of follies: the first ten years of the Follies Trust (2006-2016) Follies Trust, 2016. Fore, County Westmeath | Contae na hIarmhí: a visitor's guide, Westmeath Community Development - Rural Development Program Westmeath County Council, [2013] Cherishing all the children equally? Ireland 100 years on from Easter Rising / edited by James Williams, Elizabeth Nixon, Emer Smyth & Dorothy Watson, Oak Tree, 2016. More than concrete blocks: Dublin City's twentieth-century buildings and their stories: vol. I, 1900–40, Dublin City Council, 2016. Representing Irish religious histories: historiography, ideology and practice / Jacqueline Hill, Mary Ann Lyons (editors) Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Where is history today? New ways of representing the past / edited by Marcel Arbeit and Ian Christie, Palacky´ University Olomouc, 2015. The introduction of Christianity into the early medieval insular world / Edited by Roy Flechner and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh with the assistance of Eric Cambridge, Brepols, 2016. Berkeley50: celebrating fifty years of the Berkeley Library, Trinity College Dublin, [2017] A century of progress? : Irish women reflect / Alan Hayes and Máire Meagher, editors, Arlen House, 2016. Douglas Hyde: the professor of Irish who became president of Ireland. Seminar on the launch of a facsimile reproduction of Lia Fáil - Irisleabhar Gaedhilge Ollsgoile na hÉireann, National University of Ireland, 2016. Women and the Great Hunger, Quinnipiac UP, 2016. Sgéalta Mhuintir Luinigh = Munterloney folktales: Irish tradition from County Tyrone / Collected and edited, with introduction, notes and glossary by Éamonn Ó Tuathail, Comhairlebheal, 2016. Going once: 250 years of culture, taste and collecting at Christie's, Phaidon, 2017. A selection of early Welsh saga poems / Edited by Jenny Rowland, Modern Humanities Research Association, 2014. Rosa Anglica: reassessments / Edited by Liam P. Ó Murchú, Irish Texts Society, 2016. A short Description of the western islands of Aran, County of Galway, chiefly extracted from the programme of the ethnological excursion of the British Association to these interesting islands in the Autumn of 1857, under the direction of W.R. Wilde, MRIA, 1858. Ritos de paso y puntos de paso: La ria de Huelva en el mundo del Bronce Final Europeo / Marisa Ruiz-Gálvez Priego, Servicio de Publicaciones Universidad Complutense, 1995. Bective Abbey, Co. Meath, Archaeology Ireland, 2017. Aldhouse-Green, Miranda: Bog bodies uncovered: solving Europe's ancient mystery / Miranda Aldhouse-Green; foreword by Val McDermid, Thames & Hudson, 2015. Barnard, Toby, MRIA: Brought to book: print in Ireland, 1680-1784 / Toby Barnard, Four Courts Press, 2017. Bourke, Angela, MRIA: Voices underfoot: memory, forgetting, and oral verbal art / Angela Bourke, Quinnipiac University Press, 2016. Bronner, Dagmar: Three historical poems on Tuathal Techtmar and the bórama from the Book of Lecan: edition, translation and commentary / Dagmar Bronner, Curach bhán publications, 2017. Brown, Daniel: Hugh de Lacy, first earl of Ulster: rising and falling in Angevin Ireland / Daniel Brown, Boydell, 2016. Brown, Lawrence G. Some metric and homotopy properties of partial isometries / Lawrence G. Brown, Royal Irish Academy, 2017. Bunbury, Turtle: 1847: a chronicle of genius, generosity and savagery / Turtle Bunbury, Gill Books, 2016. Butler, Patricia: Nun's Cross Church, Co. Wicklow, and its treasures, 1817-2017 / Patricia Butler; Photography: Mark Boland, Nicholson & Bass Ltd, [2017] Byrne, Michael: Tullamore in 1916: the making of the Tullamore Incident / Michael Byrne, Esker Press, 2016. Callaghan, Stephen O’Brien, Caimin: Heart and Soul: a history of St Brendan’s Graveyard in Birr / by Stephen Callaghan and Caimin O'Brien, Offaly County Council, 2016. Conlon, Tom: Victorian Dún Laoghaire: a town divided / Tom Conlon, History Press Ireland, 2016. O Connor, Áine: Incorporating nature conservation objectives and measures into the water framework directive: opinion/forum paper / Áine O Connor, Royal Irish Academy, 2016. Crinion, Anne Crinion, Jake: Trim / Anne Crinion & Jake Crinion, History Press Ireland, 2016. Dalton, Catherine Jennings, Eleanor O'Dwyer, Barry Taylor, David: Integrating observed, inferred and simulated data to illuminate environmental change: a limnological case study / Catherine Dalton, Eleanor Jennings, Barry O'Dwyer and David Taylor, Royal Irish Academy, 2016. Deakin, Jenny, et al.: Understanding pathways transfering nutrients to streams: review of a major Irish study and its implications for determining water quality management strategies / jenny Deakin, Ray Flynn, Marie Archbold, Donal Daly, Ronan O'Brien, Alison Orr and Bruce Misstear, Royal Irish Academy, 2016. Dukova, Anastasia: A history of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and its colonial legacy / Anastasia Dukova, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. English, Michael: The Ha’penny Bridge, Dublin / Michael English, Dublin City Council, 2016. Finch, Eric: Three centuries of physics in Trinity College Dublin / Eric Finch, Living Edition, 2016. Flanagan, Charles, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Identity and values in Irish foreign policy / Charles Flanagan, TD, Royal Irish Academy, 2016. Flanagan, Seán: Slieve Bloom, the lost treasurers: a history/folklore of the Slieve Bloom / By Seán Flanagan, [Seán Flanagan] 2016. Foley, Helen; Bogue, Joe; Onakuse, Stephen: New conceptual framework for sustainability / Helen Foley, Joe Bogue and Stephen Onakuse, Royal Irish Academy, 2016. Foley, Tadhg: Death by discourse? : Political economy and the Great Irish Famine / Tadhg Foley, Quinnipiac University Press, 2016. Free, Gary, et al. Lake ecological assessment metrics in Ireland: relationships with phosphorus and typology parameters and the implications for setting nutrient standards / Gary Free, Dierdre Tierney, Ruth Little et al. Royal Irish Academy, 2016. Gallen, James: Between rhetoric and reality: ten years of the United Nations Human Rights Council / James Gallen, Royal Irish Academy, 2016. García-Pacheco, Francisco, et al.: Sectors of the duality mapping / F.J. García-Pacheco, A. Miralles and D. Puglisi, Royal Irish Academy, 2017. Gatley, Sarah; Parkes, Matthew A. Earth science conservation in Ireland - a reappraisal / Sarah Gatley and Matthew A. Parkes, Royal Irish Academy, 2016. Ginn, Victoria Ruth: Mapping society: settlement structure in later Bronze Age Ireland / Victoria Ruth Ginn, Archaeopress Archaeology, 2016. Graham, Shirley: A gender paradox: discourses on women in UN peacekeeping / Shirley Graham, Royal Irish Academy, 2016. Gregory, Ian N. Cunningham, Niall A. Lloyd, C.D. Shuttleworth, Ian G. Ell, Paul S. Troubled geographies: a spatial history of religion and society in Ireland / Ian N. Gregory ... [et al.] Indiana UP, 2013. Griffith, Richard John, Sir, MRIA, 1784-1878: General valuation of rateable property in Ireland; Union of Antrim; valuation of the several tenements comprised in the above-named union, situate in the County of Antrim /Richard Griffith, Bart., Commissioner of Valuation, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1862. [and 84 other volumes in this series] Hannigan, Edel Feeley, Hugh B. Kelly-Quinn, Mary: Should rare or distinctive river types be given special consideration under the water framework directive? a synthesis of available information / Edel Hannigan, Hugh B. Feeley and Mary Kelly-Quinn, Royal Irish Academy, 2016. Harron, Paul: Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie: a transformational provincial practice, 1850-1960 / Paul Harron, Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016. Hensey, Robert: First light: the origins of Newgrange / Robert Hensey, Oxbow Books, 2015. Herlihy, Pat: Ballyvourney 3501: a history of the people of a mountainy parish in Co Cork / Pat Herlihy, Words by Design, 2015. Hogan, Margaret: Drama in Birr: Oxmantown Hall, 1889 to 1916 / Margaret Hogan, 2016. Jackson, Bob: A doctor’s sword: how an Irish doctor survived war, captivity and the atomic bomb / Bob Jackson, Collins Press, 2016. Johnston, Roy Plummer, Declan: The musical life of nineteenth-century Belfast / Roy Johnston with Declan Plummer, Ashgate, 2015. Kain, Roger J.P. Oliver, Richard: British Town Maps: a history / Roger J.P. Kain & Richard R. Oliver, The British Library, 2015. Kavanagh, Joan Snowden, Dianne: Van Diemen’s women: a history of transportation to Tasmania / Joan Kavanagh & Dianne Snowden, History Press Ireland, 2016. Keating, Justine: Nothing is written in stone: the notebooks of Justin Keating / edited by Anna Kealy and Barbara Hussey, Lilliput Press, 2017. Kelly, Fiona L.; Harrison, Trevor D. The Water Framework directive: advances in fish classification tools in