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McDaid's of Dublin: chasing the drunken muse
Tuesday, 9 April 2024Read the latest DIB monthly blog.
‘The will of the people’: putting the referendum in the Irish constitution
Tuesday, 5 March 2024The latest DIB Monthly Blog.
Pirates of west Cork
Tuesday, 5 December 2023The latest in an ongoing series of Dictionary of Irish Biography blog posts.
Spotlight on the ‘Mandarins’ of the Irish Civil Service
Monday, 6 November 2023Read the latest DIB blog
MACMORRIS and the DIB
Monday, 9 October 2023Constructing an interactive network graph of early modern Ireland
A rising tide: women and the natural sciences in nineteenth-century Ireland (Part 2)
Tuesday, 12 September 2023In 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...
A Rising Tide: women and the natural sciences in nineteenth-century Ireland (Part 1)
Tuesday, 5 September 2023In 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 –...
Culture Night 2023
Tuesday, 15 August 2023We 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.