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