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The Irish Room, the ground floor of the museum, displays Irish animals, notably several mounted skeletons of giant Irish deer. Numerous skulls of those and other deer line the walls. Stuffed and mounted mammals, birds, fish — and insects and other animals native to or found in Ireland — comprise the rest of the ground floor.
The Royal Irish Academy (RIA; Irish: Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann), based in Dublin, is an academic body that promotes study in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is Ireland's premier learned society and one of its leading cultural institutions .
The National Museum of Ireland descends from the amalgamation of parts of the collections of a number of Dublin cultural institutions from the 18th and 19th centuries, including primarily the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) and the Royal Irish Academy (RIA).
National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History: 54: Kavanagh charter horn: 12th and 15th centuries: National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology [11] 55: Gallowglass gravestone: 15th or 16th century: Gaelic Athletic Association Museum, Dublin: 56: Book of Common Prayer: 1551: Royal Irish Academy, Dublin: 57: Salamander pendant: c ...
The museum was established under the Dublin Science and Art Museum Act 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. ccxxxiv). Before, its collections had been divided between the Royal Dublin Society and the Natural History Museum on Merrion Street. [2] The museum was built by the father and son architects Thomas Newenham Deane and Thomas Manly Deane. [3]
He was elected as a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1891. [1] In 1892, Praeger founded the Irish Naturalist, becoming its co-editor. Aside from articles, the journal contained official communications of both the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society and the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland. [1]
1907 Contributions to a natural history of Lambay: marine Mollusca. Irish Naturalist 16: 33-40 (1907) Clare Island Survey: Gaelic plant and animal names, and associated folk-lore. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 31B: 1-30 (1911) Clare Island Survey: Marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 31B: 1-36 (1911)
The Natural History of Lough Foyle, North Ireland (Proc. Royal Irish Academy, 54, 67–96), with Ranald MacDonald is a full-scale survey of that inland lake. [ 11 ] James Stuart Francis Fraser Mackenzie (1845–1927) and his natural history books (Arch. Nat. Hist., 21:3, 415–416) memorialises a forgotten Colonel and botanist, one of whose ...