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New beginnings…

Friday, 8 May 2020

A word from the new Academy Librarian, Barbara McCormack.

Library

Call for nominations: a systemic approach to the energy transition in Europe

Friday, 8 May 2020

Experts are needed for a new project on the energy pathways in Europe

Policy and International Relations, International Activities

Favourite DIB lives: John Ferrar, historian, printer and public man

Friday, 8 May 2020

Selected by Jennifer Moore of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, John Ferrar made a significant contribution to printing in Ireland, as well as the writing of local histories. His biography is part of our Favourite DIB...

Dictionary of Irish Biography

How linguistics can help the historian: Part I

Thursday, 7 May 2020

A weekly series for an interdisciplinary, non-specialist readership in which the editor of the Academy's Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources outlines how insights from linguistics can help the historian.  

Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources

IHTA Town Type Series: Viking Towns

Wednesday, 6 May 2020

As part of IHTA Online, Howard Clarke, MRIA and editor of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, explores the traditional Irish Viking towns and other towns associated with them. 

Irish Historic Towns Atlas

Favourite DIB lives: John Scottus Eriugena, medieval scholar

Wednesday, 6 May 2020

Selected by Dr Joseph Flahive of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources, John Scottus Eriugena was a prolific medieval scholar of Latin and Greek, 'rediscovered' in the nineteenth century. His biography is...

Dictionary of Irish Biography

Climate, food and health: Critical policy choices in the post-Covid 19 world

Wednesday, 6 May 2020

Charting an economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic will involve difficult choices and trade-offs.  Finding the right balance between measures to kick start the economy and policies which require time to deliver...

Science Committees, Climate Change and Environmental Sciences Committee, Climate Change Blog, Covid-19 Research Response

Call for experts for InterAcademy Partnership COVID-19 Advisory Committee

Tuesday, 5 May 2020

The IAP are looking for a pool of experts to provide science-based responses to the myriads of doubts and queries that have arisen, and will continue to arise, in many countries.

Policy and International Relations, International Activities, Covid-19 Research Response

Favourite DIB lives: Ernest Shackleton, explorer

Tuesday, 5 May 2020

Selected by Dr Juliana Adelman of DCU, and introduced by Kevin Kenny (Shackleton Autumn School) and Professor Jim McAdam (Shackleton Scholarship Committee), Ernest Shackleton had a gift for coping with crisis and...

Dictionary of Irish Biography

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