Hamilton Day 2020 Review
23 October 2020Professor Terence Tao, UCLA, delivered the Royal Irish Academy's 2020 Hamilton Lecture on the topic ‘The Cosmic Distance Ladder’
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Trick or feat?
23 October 2020What kind of cleasa did Cú Chulainn's personal trainer teach the legendary hero? Find out in today's episode of Spreading the Words.
Snap that: Life through the lens of Ireland’s 18- to 25-year-olds
23 October 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...
Alcohol in the DIB: Kate Meyrick
22 October 2020Our series ends with Kate Meyrick, the notorious Irish ‘queen of nightclubs’ in 1920s London who was immortalised in the works of Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell.
Bringing medieval Irish into the classroom with 'A history of Ireland in 100 words'
22 October 2020After the book and the exhibition, we're now working on educational resources based around extracts from tales, poetry and historical texts composed in the Middle Ages.
Publishing GLAM data as FAIR data
When: Thursday, 29 October 2020DRI and RDA Ireland, with the support of Europeana Research will explore the benefits of publishing Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) data as FAIR data and will address questions about how this...
'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.
Shaw talk: Shaw and Legacy
When: Monday, 02 November 2020Celebrating the launch of a special issue to mark 40 years of the Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies: SHAW 40.2 on 'Shaw and Legacy' .
John Bell Day Lecture 2020: Quantum Reality
When: Wednesday, 04 November 2020Eminent physicist, Professor Vlatko Vedral FInstP, Professor of Quantum Information Science at University of Oxford will deliver the 2020 lecture
Academy Discourse: Astronomy and Poetry
When: Tuesday, 10 November 202019:00-20:30
Join Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Hon. MRIA for this online Academy Discourse sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran.
