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Thanks for flagging Stephen! We will look into that. Apologies.
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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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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.
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at producing an authoritative dictionary for modern Irish, based on material from 1600 to the present day.
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Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht, Dara Calleary TD, has announced funding of €1,133,196 over four years for Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge. The historical dictionary is a research project of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) aimed
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a bhfuil de chuspóir aige foclóir údarásach a chur ar fáil don Nua-Ghaeilge, bunaithe ar fhianaise ón mbliain 1600 go dtí an lá atá inniu ann. @deptrcd.bsky.social
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In the meantime, you can…
Read the Open Access version on Arrow
📚 online.flippingbook.com/view/12612933/
Listen back to the Three Castles Burning podcast with the editors:
🎧http://threecastlesburning.libsyn.com/irish-food-history-from-bc-times-to-the-grogans-toastie
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3/ Learn about the Annals and find a link to the digital copy here: ria.ie/collections/... Or visit the reading room this week to see the manuscript on display from 10am - 4.30pm, Mon-Fri. No reader's ticket or appointment required.
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2/ ...in Enniskillen, they were attacked while fording a river. The Annals explain that due to the number of biscuits left strewn at the scene, the ford was renamed, Bel atha na mBriosgadh, or, Mouth of the Ford of Biscuits!
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3/ Poor Clare, you deserved better! #UpTheBanner
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2/ '... wet turf, steeping in bogs, damp beds, potatoes like turnips, half baked bread, adulterated tea, ''no meat'' broken pains of glass, and paying 2/6 per diem for an office to write in? ... we have suffered more than I could now remember or wish to glance back at'.
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3/ McDreamy and McSteamy are out; McSeedy is in. Read Dr Mackenzie's paper in Notes and Records to learn more about the production of these beautiful plates👉 Mackenzie, Pamela. 2024, Nehemiah Grew, the illustrator, Notes Rec. 78: 81–114.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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2/ In 2022 Dr Pamela Mackenzie identified sketches by Grew in the Society's archive, and argues that Grew was an active illustrator who took a keen interest in the engravings that accompanied his work. The geometrical style is in keeping with Grew's beliefs in ordered nature.
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6/ As an experiment, one of our Library colleagues attempted to replicate Leslie's Sweet Kentucky Cake recipe at the weekend. It got the cat's stamp of approval and we are all still alive to tell the tale!
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5/ A celebrity in American society at this stage, The Indian Meal Book (1846), pictured above, was Leslie's 9th cookbook. Strange parallels can be drawn between how Indian corn was being promoted in both Ireland and America around this time during the height of the Great Famine.
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4/ Goodfellow's teachings emphasised fresh, good quality ingredients & her method of writing was one of the first to list the ingredients required at the beginning of the text. Leslie's descriptions are simple but instructive & was intended to appeal to all strands of society.
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3) Leslie grew tired of copying out recipes for all her friends, and on the advice of her brother, published her first cookbook in 1828. Her most popular book, 'Directions for cookery in its various branches' was published in 1837 & sold 150,000 copies.
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2/ After Leslie's father passed away, the family faced economic hardship. Her mother opened a boarding school & to assist with the preparation of meals, Leslie attended the first American culinary school, that of Elizabeth Goodfellow for two terms.
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Please enjoy this photograph of entomologist Cynthia Longfield (1896-1991) sitting in a mango grove on Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands in 1924.
🎧 Listen back to a lecture about her travels: tinyurl.com/3cj2eemt
#LibraryLoversMonth
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4/ Some sources suggest that Pythagoras favoured a vegetarian diet due to his belief in metempsychosis, or reincarnation. He apparently discouraged the consumption of wine & legumes, with a particular aversion to fava beans.
He would not have got on with Dr Hannibal Lecter...
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3/ Cocchi argues that many ancient civilisations such as the Greeks, Romans & Japanese did not see their strength or vigour diminish by abstaining from animal foods. He was also one of the first to recommend milk diets for ill patients & fruit & veg to sailors to prevent scurvy.
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2/ Antonio Cocchi was Professor of Physics & Philosophy at the University of Pisa and was elected a member of the @royalsociety.org in 1736. He was also a vegetarian and classical scholar, heavily influenced by the teachings & lifestyle of Greek philosopher Pythagoras.
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4/ You can see the digitised copy of the manuscript via @dias-isos.bsky.social here: www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_2... read Whitey Stokes' English translation of the Tale of Fortinbras via @archive.org here: archive.org/details/revu...
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3/ However, looking at Thomas Westropp's "Sketches in Ireland and Germany" (RIA MS 3 A 49/21), we can imagine how grand Charlemagne's peace time feasts might have been at a palace such as this one at Ingelheim, sketched ca. 1894-96.
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2/ On f. 2r the colophon names the story as the history of Charles the Great or Sdair Serluis Moir. To carry on our #LibraryLoversMonth theme of Food, we note in the story that Charlemagne & Fortinbras frequently break from battle to "go to meat" at their camps.