Emma Rothwell
@rothweeee.bsky.social
Assistant Librarian at the Royal Irish Academy. Libraries, history, art, theology, music and all that good stuff.
Not up to the standard of the famous mushroom guy, but these are pretty cool in my parents' garden in Carlow.
November 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Not up to the standard of the famous mushroom guy, but these are pretty cool in my parents' garden in Carlow.
An unwilling part, I'd imagine, if you could ask the reindeer.
But it's a very cool acquisition.
But it's a very cool acquisition.
November 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
An unwilling part, I'd imagine, if you could ask the reindeer.
But it's a very cool acquisition.
But it's a very cool acquisition.
A last visit to @nmireland.bsky.social Words on the Wave to see the third opening of the St Gall gospels. Not my boy St John, but still, not too shabby. Also revisiting a relic label we studied in my palaeography class & one of the world's most famous library catalogues. 😍 Farewell, Swiss friends!
October 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A last visit to @nmireland.bsky.social Words on the Wave to see the third opening of the St Gall gospels. Not my boy St John, but still, not too shabby. Also revisiting a relic label we studied in my palaeography class & one of the world's most famous library catalogues. 😍 Farewell, Swiss friends!
Having a cracking day with @annewelsh.bsky.social on this training! One of the many pleasures of being the secretary of the @laibluesky.bsky.social Rare Books Group...
October 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Having a cracking day with @annewelsh.bsky.social on this training! One of the many pleasures of being the secretary of the @laibluesky.bsky.social Rare Books Group...
Dublin, sure you're only gorgeous.
September 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Dublin, sure you're only gorgeous.
By consulting the English Short Title Catalogue, and assuming the mindset of a Victorian, scissor-wielding lunatic, I have at last figured out what imprint I am looking at... another win for pedantic cataloguers everywhere!
September 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
By consulting the English Short Title Catalogue, and assuming the mindset of a Victorian, scissor-wielding lunatic, I have at last figured out what imprint I am looking at... another win for pedantic cataloguers everywhere!
A very jolly time with the Earls of Ormond at Kilkenny Arts Festival a few weeks ago, which I kept forgetting to share!
August 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
A very jolly time with the Earls of Ormond at Kilkenny Arts Festival a few weeks ago, which I kept forgetting to share!
Find someone who loves you like this snail loves the poppy seed head in my garden.
July 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Find someone who loves you like this snail loves the poppy seed head in my garden.
Help! Anyone able to make out this former owner's name? Probably Irish language?
July 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Help! Anyone able to make out this former owner's name? Probably Irish language?
July 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Catching up on From That Small Island on RTÉ - fantastic! Just two nitpicks: the papyrus font for the document recreations (the Irish script is really famous) and the academic wandering into the stacks to retrieve an archival box herself is literally the most unrealistic thing I've ever seen on TV.
July 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Catching up on From That Small Island on RTÉ - fantastic! Just two nitpicks: the papyrus font for the document recreations (the Irish script is really famous) and the academic wandering into the stacks to retrieve an archival box herself is literally the most unrealistic thing I've ever seen on TV.
Insect pigments today at Montefiascone!
July 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Insect pigments today at Montefiascone!
Noticeable difference between the earth colours and synthetic colours (i.e. requiring a chemical process to create; heat application, addition of acids, etc). What a wonderful palette!
July 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Noticeable difference between the earth colours and synthetic colours (i.e. requiring a chemical process to create; heat application, addition of acids, etc). What a wonderful palette!
Day 2 in Montefiascone: metals! Including gold... 😍
July 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Day 2 in Montefiascone: metals! Including gold... 😍
On a busman's holiday at the Monte Project learning about medieval pigments! 😍🖌🪨💎
July 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
On a busman's holiday at the Monte Project learning about medieval pigments! 😍🖌🪨💎
I'm giving this 15 min tour tomorrow, if you are Dublin city centre-based? I will make you excited about the Tudor Privy Council, or die trying... This is part of the 175,000 new documents on Irish history that was all over the news yesterday! www.ria.ie/events/libra...
July 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I'm giving this 15 min tour tomorrow, if you are Dublin city centre-based? I will make you excited about the Tudor Privy Council, or die trying... This is part of the 175,000 new documents on Irish history that was all over the news yesterday! www.ria.ie/events/libra...
The choir were discussing ways of quickly recognising the first page of this psalm. I said that the decorated capital surely made it obvious. That was not the winning answer...
June 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The choir were discussing ways of quickly recognising the first page of this psalm. I said that the decorated capital surely made it obvious. That was not the winning answer...
Suppressing a small 'whoop' as Dáibhí Ó Cróinín gives the Cathach a shout-out while outlining the history of the contested term "Libri Scottice scripti".
June 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Suppressing a small 'whoop' as Dáibhí Ó Cróinín gives the Cathach a shout-out while outlining the history of the contested term "Libri Scottice scripti".
Immo Warntjes masterfully explaining why St Gall is the most important repository in Europe for the study of history before the year 1000! I, too, raise my hands in worshipful respect for this list of records! 😉
June 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Immo Warntjes masterfully explaining why St Gall is the most important repository in Europe for the study of history before the year 1000! I, too, raise my hands in worshipful respect for this list of records! 😉
Excited to attend some of the lectures about the St Gall mss at Trinity College today!
June 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Excited to attend some of the lectures about the St Gall mss at Trinity College today!
From amazing retrieval systems, to exhibitions, to digitisation suites to the loveliest of reading rooms and most stunning of books! Enormous thanks to the Special Collections team @ullibrary.bsky.social for hosting the @laibluesky.bsky.social Rare Books Group for our annual visit this year!
June 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
From amazing retrieval systems, to exhibitions, to digitisation suites to the loveliest of reading rooms and most stunning of books! Enormous thanks to the Special Collections team @ullibrary.bsky.social for hosting the @laibluesky.bsky.social Rare Books Group for our annual visit this year!
Cataloguing a set of Cathal Ó Sándair kids books and the cover illustrations aren't credited. Some gas ones here. Anyone know anything about E.W., L Mac S or E.H.??
June 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Cataloguing a set of Cathal Ó Sándair kids books and the cover illustrations aren't credited. Some gas ones here. Anyone know anything about E.W., L Mac S or E.H.??
Jellett and Hone in @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social on Saturday and Oyster Catchers on Ireland's Eye on Sunday. A dreamy weekend that seemed to happen out of time. If I didn't like my job so much, Monday would be very obnoxious.
May 19, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Jellett and Hone in @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social on Saturday and Oyster Catchers on Ireland's Eye on Sunday. A dreamy weekend that seemed to happen out of time. If I didn't like my job so much, Monday would be very obnoxious.