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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Mary Ruane is the former director of the Applied Language Centre at University College Dublin and has served as president of the Irish Association of Applied Linguistics. She is the author of Access to Foreign Languages in Second-level Schools (1990).