Call for nominations extended: 2020 Academy Gold Medal in the Life Sciences
08 August 2020The Gold Medals are awarded to individuals who have made a demonstrable and internationally recognised outstanding scholarly contribution in their fields.
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The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann champions research. We identify and recognise Ireland’s world class researchers. We support scholarship and promote awareness of how science and the humanities enrich our lives and benefit society. We believe that good research needs to be promoted, sustained and communicated. The Academy is run by a Council of its members. Membership is by election and considered the highest academic honour in Ireland.
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Library re-opening
05 August 2020We are very pleased to announce the re-opening of the Academy Library on a limited basis from Monday, August 10, 2020 from 10.30-13:00.
DIB Explorers: Beatrice Grimshaw, author and traveller
30 July 2020The last explorer in our series is Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw, who started her career as a sports journalist and long-distance cyclist before travelling extensively in the South Seas and Australasia and settling in...
The importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to tackle the COVID crisis
23 July 2020Our author Niamh Moore-Cherry reflects on some of the lessons learnt from Ireland's response to the 2008 economic crisis and how they can help face the current crisis.
Snap that: Life through the lens of Ireland’s 18- to 25-year-olds
13 July 2020Calling 18- to 25-year-olds on the island of Ireland to tell the story of your generation through your smartphone lens. Photographs with accompanying captions will be selected for an online exhibition. Closing date for...
Online exhibition: Judging Shaw
From: Monday, 20 July 2020To: Monday, 02 November 2020
Enjoy our online exhibition based on Judging Shaw by Fintan O'Toole to inspire fresh interest in Shaw’s life, work and legacy.
Academy Discourse: US Elections
When: Wednesday, 26 August 2020Join us online for the first Academy Discourse in the 2020-21 Series on the topic of the upcoming US elections.
Culture at risk: Digitally preserving the referendum on the 8th Amendment
When: Friday, 18 September 202016.00-17.00
Join the DRI to explore questions around the long-term preservation of at-risk culturally significant digital materials in a lively webinar.
#WeMissIPRES - Save the Date 22, 23, 24 September
From: Tuesday, 22 September 2020To: Thursday, 24 September 2020
A few digital preservationists from around the world, including DRI’s Natalie Harrower, have come together to organise an online knowledge exchange in anticipation of the 2020 iPres conference in Beijing, which has...
Cultural heritage and recent armed conflicts
When: Thursday, 29 October 2020Academy Discourse by international cultural heritage expert Dr Mounir Bouchenaki sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran.
