Reading room, The Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2

The collection of c.2,000 manuscripts includes the largest corpus of Irish language manuscripts in a single repository, the oldest surviving Irish manuscript, the Cathach, or Psalter of St Columba, and other important early texts. The manuscript collections encompass a wide range of fields including genealogy, history, literature, hagiography, early Irish law, natural history, journals and diaries, society minute books, etc. Over 60 early Irish manuscripts have been digitized and are accessible on www.isos.dias.ie. The library organises regular exhibitions, public lectures and library visits.

Courtesy of the Royal Irish Academy

A tour of the old Jameson distillery, Middleton, Co. Cork

The Jameson Experience, Middleton, takes visitors through the old mills, malting houses, brewhouse, still house, offices and warehouses of the old distillery.

(c) The Jameson Experience

Guinness Archive, Diageo Ireland

Guinness Archive, Diageo Ireland

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Dr. Joss Lynam, Author of the Sport Feature

Dr. Joss Lynam (1924-2011) was a civil engineer by profession, who worked on projects in Britain and India as well as in Ireland, however he is better known for his life-long involvement in Adventure Sports. He was a founder member of the IMC, the first mountaineering club in Ireland in 1948. Returning in the sixties from working abroad, he was also a founder and the first Hon. Secretary of the Association for Adventure Sports in 1969. Concentrating on mountaineering, he was on fourteen expeditions to the Himalayas and many other great ranges, and was the founder and editor of the magazine Irish Mountain Log for 14 years. Dr. Lynam was particularly well-known for the walking guidebooks in Ireland. In 2001, Dublin University recognised his work for mountain and hill sports in Ireland with an Honorary Doctorate in Law.

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St Eunan’s Cathedral, Raphoe 1893

1893 sketch of St Eunan’s Cathedral before the removal of the transepts.

Donegal County Library

South East Traffic Daytime - Desireable/Undesireable

Noise maps produced by the Traffic Noise & Air Quality Unit , Dublin City Council.

Widows and Orphans of Sailors ; Waterford Officers

The Waterford News - 28th of July 1916, Page 5

Courtesy of The Waterford News