Camogie legends in the DIB: Kay Mills
06 September 2019For this weekend's All-Ireland camogie final we are revisiting the life of Kathleen 'Kay' Mills who won fifteen All-Ireland senior medals. Read her entry below by Mary Moran.
THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY IS IRELAND'S LEADING BODY OF EXPERTS IN THE SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
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.
Read more about the RIA 
Archaeology Grants schemes open
06 September 2019Archaeology Research Excavation Grants, Directed Archaeological Research for World Heritage Sites, Archaeology Radiocarbon Dates Scheme now open for applications
New DIFP exhibition in National Archives of Ireland on Ireland and the outbreak of the Second World War
04 September 2019To mark the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, our latest exhibition co-curated with the National Archives of Ireland explores how Ireland saw the start of the conflict.
Launch of Rural Conversations report
02 September 2019Mr Michael Ring T.D., Minister for Rural and Community Development, launched the Rural Conversations report at 11.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 4 September 2019 at the Royal Irish Academy.
The business of leisure: entertainment ephemera in the collection of the Royal Irish Academy
27 August 2019For this month’s Library blog post Alison FitzGerald and Joy Sherwood of Maynooth University take a look at the weird and wonderful in popular entertainment of the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
Sinn Féin ‘diplomats’ and the Irish revolution, 1919-23
When: Thursday, 19 September 201913.00
Join John Gibney for the first lecture in the lunchtime series on 100 years of Irish foreign policy.
Culture Night
When: Friday, 20 September 201917:00-21:00
Visit us on Culture Night, we have lots in store ...
Building Labs for Interdisciplinary Science: Janelia Farm and BioFrontiers
When: Wednesday, 25 September 2019Lunchtime Lecture with Nobel Laureate Thomas Cech, Director, BioFrontiers Institute
How do we study bats and rats to find the secret of everlasting youth?
When: Tuesday, 01 October 2019Academy Discourse by bat expert Professor Emma Teeling.
Re-imagining Moore
When: Wednesday, 09 October 201913:00
Professor Harry White, MRIA, will give the first lecture in our series on 'Discovering Thomas Moore'.
