THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY IS IRELAND'S LEADING BODY OF EXPERTS IN THE SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
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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'How should a liberal democracy react to conscientious objection claims?'
Four panel sessions of an informed debate on conscientious objection from legal, philosophical, theological and religious perspectives, and finally a discussion on how legislators and governments in liberal democracies...
'Post-pandemic housing transformation and the value of home'
Keynote and panel discussion on housing to be held online.
Seminar on the Commission on the Defence Forces
This seminar is presented by the RIA’s Standing Committee for International Affairs, the Institute of International and European Affairs and the Commission on the Defence Forces.
'International politics in times of risk and uncertainty: the COVID-19 crisis and beyond'
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has posed a fundamental new challenge to humanity and complicated an already unstable international situation.
'The future of media: experience, models, practice'
Three panel sessions of discussion and debate on the future of media in Ireland.
Speranza, a scholar reclaimed
Merlin Holland, scholar and grandson of Oscar Wilde, on the legacy of his great grandmother, the poet Speranza, Lady Jane Wilde.
The Decline and Fall of the Press: Dion Boucicault - Virtuoso, Journalist, Plagiarist
Public lecture by Dr Aoife Monks (QMUL) and panel discussion to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Dion Boucicault
Global Power Shifts: connectivity, cooperation and conflict
International Affairs Conference 2022.
Ireland 2030
A series of four panel discussions delves into key issues facing society on the island of Ireland on Wednesdays from 4 May - 25 May 2022, 09:30-13:00.
Rethinking Educational Disadvantage
A one-day symposium on the issue of educational disadvantage