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Lynn Scarff discusses...A crucial element of the museum is the human connection it offers. For both visitors and researchers, the museum has potentially a very different interaction with our history.
This year we were honoured to have Fields Medallist Martin Hairer with us to celebrate Hamilton Day, commemorating famed mathematician William Rowan Hamilton's 'Eureka moment'.
The latest instalment of Documents on Irish Foreign policy, covering 1957-1961, will be published in November.
The US-Ireland Research Innovation Awards are a joint initiative of the Royal Irish Academy and the American Chamber of Commerce, Ireland.
The six shortlisted titles for the inaugural Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction has been announced today.
Celebrating 'Shaw Day' with some of George Bernard Shaw's favourite music
Celebrating 'Shaw Day' at the Royal Irish Academy
Dr Clare O'Halloran will give the first lecture in our series accompanying the exhibition 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century'
This Academy Discourse by Professor Máire O'Neill, Queen's University Belfast, is the eighth in the series sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran.
Join RIA author Frank Cullen for a walk through Dublin's backstreets as part of Dublin Book Festival
