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GUBU – origins of the phrase

Monday, 12 February 2024

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Ireland’s Victorian ‘great detectives’

Thursday, 11 January 2024

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Pirates of west Cork

Tuesday, 5 December 2023

The latest in an ongoing series of Dictionary of Irish Biography blog posts.

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MACMORRIS and the DIB

Monday, 9 October 2023

Constructing an interactive network graph of early modern Ireland

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A rising tide: women and the natural sciences in nineteenth-century Ireland (Part 2)

Tuesday, 12 September 2023

In this month’s two-part Dictionary of Irish Biography blog, Niav Gallagher highlights the careers of several Irish women who made important contributions to the natural sciences in the nineteenth century, despite the...

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A Rising Tide: women and the natural sciences in nineteenth-century Ireland (Part 1)

Tuesday, 5 September 2023

In this month’s Dictionary of Irish Biography blog, Niav Gallagher discusses a group of pioneering Irish woman botanists. Various barriers limited their participation in the natural sciences, yet these intrepid women –...

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Culture Night 2023

Tuesday, 15 August 2023

We are delighted to announce that the Royal Irish Academy will once again be participating in Culture Night on Friday 22 September 2023 and will be open to the public from 17:00 to 21:00.

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Renaming (and legalising) an Army

Tuesday, 1 August 2023

In this month’s Dictionary of Irish Biography blog, Eoin Kinsella marks the centenary of the legislation that formally established the Irish Defence Forces.

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