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.
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Gabrielle (Gaye) M. Ashford completed a PhD at Dublin City University in 2012 on the history of children and childhood in eighteenth-century Ireland. She is co-editor of The letters of Katherine Conolly 1707–1747, published by the Irish Manuscripts Commission in 2018.