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Gold for top Irish researchers
Colm O’Reardon, Secretary General of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science presented the 2024 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medals to…
Grants, Prizes and Awards
R.J. Hunter Digital Fellowship open to applications
The Royal Irish Academy is delighted to welcome applications from researchers with a background and track record in a relevant research area, namely research on…
Dr William McCarthy wins the 2024 Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize
Recent graduate of TU Dublin has been recognised for his innovative work addressing the presence of chlorate in dairy products
Michel Déon Prize winners event in Paris
On the evening of 28 November at the Irish Embassy in Paris, RIA Michel Déon Prize winners Conor O’Clery (2020) and Sally Hayden (2022) participated…
Watch 2023 Hamilton Lecture: ‘How surprisingly intricate are random structures?’
If you missed our 2023 Hamilton lecture ‘How surprisingly intricate are random structures?’ delivered by Professor Wendelin Werner you can watch it now
2023 Hamilton Prize awarded to nine top mathematical students in Ireland
On Monday 16 October 2023 the prestigious undergraduate Hamilton Prize was awarded to the top nine mathematical students on the Island of Ireland, at a…
Watch the Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize 2023
Dr Chunchun Li is awarded the Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize for best chemistry PhD thesis in Ireland at a ceremony at the Royal Irish…
Gold Medals for top Irish researchers shaping their fields
Senator Malcolm Byrne, presented Jane Ohlmeyer MRIA with the 2023 RIA Gold Medal in the Humanities and Jonathan N. Coleman MRIA with the 2023 RIA…
Sally Hayden wins 2022 Michel Déon Prize
Today Sally Hayden was announced as the winner of the prestigious 2022 Royal Irish Academy Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction for her debut book My…
2021 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medals presented
On 4 April 2022, Ruth M.J. Byrne MRIA, Professor of Cognitive Science, Trinity College Dublin was awarded the 2021 RIA Gold Medal in the Social…
9 students awarded the 2022 Hamilton Prize for Mathematics
Today, the prestigious undergraduate Hamilton Prize was awarded to the top 9 mathematical students on the Island of Ireland, at a ceremony in the Royal…