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Today marks the launch of the Digital Atlas of Cork/Corcaigh, a free online interactive map that invites you to discover the built heritage of Cork City in a new way where 6,245 features of the city's history from AD...
On the evening of 28 November 2023 at the Irish Embassy in Paris, Royal Irish Academy Michel Déon laureates Conor O’Clery and Sally Hayden delivered the prestigious Michel Déon panel discussion in the presence of Irish...
The latest in an ongoing series of Dictionary of Irish Biography blog posts.
Last updated: Tuesday, 5 December. Following on from the 2022 surveys, the initial findings from the 2023 ARINS/The Irish Times survey were published by The Irish Times on the morning of 2 December and will continue to ...
The next addition to our Grangegorman Lives series is Patrick Thomas Daly, born on this day (2 December) in 1870, trade unionist and republican.
This exhibition tells the story of the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853 which took place on the grounds of Leinster House, Dublin.
The launch of an event series, that will run from 2023-2026, organised by the Royal Irish Academy's Languages, Literature, Culture and Communications Committee and the higher education institutions in Ireland to...
Join us for an interdisciplinary one-day seminar which aims to enhance the visibility of Irish women in archival collections.
This webinar will introduce techniques for effectively processing, arranging, and describing digital collections of photographs.
Discourse Series: Professor Tim Palmer, Hon MRIA, Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, with a response from Maria Baghramian MRIA.
