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Christmas Opening Hours
Friday, 18 December 2020Wishing all our members and friends a very Happy Christmas and New Year.

Richard Reilly MRIA: Neuroscientist
Monday, 7 December 2020Professor Reilly's career has been driven by his fascination with neurology coupled with his original background in electronic engineering to the emerging field of neuroscience to explore issues of clinical importance.

Late Late Toy Show 2020
Thursday, 26 November 2020Tune into this year's Late Late Toy Show to see Academy House in a new light as the RTE team used it as a backdrop for this book themed extravaganza.

Watch 'Astronomy and Poetry' Discourse
Wednesday, 25 November 2020You can now watch the recent Academy Discourse by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Hon. MRIA which was sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran LLP.

John Bell Day Lecture 2020
Monday, 9 November 2020Watch Eminent physicist, Professor Vlatko Vedral FInstP, Professor of Quantum Information Science at University of Oxford who gave the 2020 John Bell Day lecture on 'Quantum Reality'.

Kathleen James-Chakraborty MRIA: Architectural Historian
Friday, 30 October 2020Professor James-Chakraborty’s scholarship addresses the connections between buildings and the societies that erect them.

Hamilton Day 2020 Review
Friday, 23 October 2020Professor Terence Tao, UCLA, delivered the Royal Irish Academy's 2020 Hamilton Lecture on the topic ‘The Cosmic Distance Ladder’

Rob Kitchin MRIA: Geographer
Monday, 12 October 2020Professor Kitchin is a geographer who researches how digital technologies are reshaping urban life and how cities are managed and governed.

Conor O’Clery wins 2020 Michel Déon Prize
Tuesday, 29 September 2020Today Conor O’Clery was announced as the winner of the prestigious 2020 Royal Irish Academy Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction for his book The Shoemaker and his Daughter (Penguin Randomhouse).

Yvonne Buckley MRIA: Population Ecologist
Friday, 4 September 2020Professor Buckley's research deals with the ups and downs of populations as a population ecologist, looking at the natural world through a lens of numbers.