Pat Guiry, President, RIA, Minister Calleary, Siobhán O'Sullivan, Executive Director, RIA and Dr Dillon, Editor, Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge, RIA, are pictured reviewing some of the works of Eleanor Knott, from the RIA Library collection.
Eleanor was an Irish scholar, academic and lexicographer, as well as one of the first women elected to the RIA. She began working for the Dictionary of the Irish Language at the RIA in 1911 and devoted some fifty years to this project.
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