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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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DRI Welcomes Marsh's Library as Member

Wednesday, 22 March 2023

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is delighted to announce that Marsh's Library has joined as our latest member.

Digital Repository of Ireland

Pat Guiry elected as President

Thursday, 16 March 2023

Today at their Stated General Meeting, the Members of the Royal Irish Academy voted Professor Pat Guiry as their 58th President.

Membership

Annual Review 2022

Thursday, 16 March 2023

The 2022 Annual Review of the Royal Irish Academy is available now to view online and download.

Membership

Savita Halappanavar Memorial Collection published on the Digital Repository of Ireland

Tuesday, 14 March 2023

Dublin City Library and Archive (DCLA) have published the Savita Halappanavar Memorial Collection on the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). This collection brings together photographs commissioned by DCLA in May 2018...

Digital Repository of Ireland

Watch the Hamilton Lecture 2022

Friday, 10 March 2023

If you missed the 2022 annual Royal Irish Academy Hamilton Lecture given by Professor Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton you can watch it now. Professor Wigderson spoke about 'Cryptography: secrets...

Science Committees, Physical, Chemical and Mathematical Sciences Committee, Hamilton Day

A vibrant civic society in Ireland today: The role of the Church

Friday, 10 March 2023

If you missed this talk by Church of Ireland Archbishop John McDowell which took place in Benburb Priory, Co. Tyrone, you can watch it back now.

Public Engagement

Gold Medals for top Irish researchers shaping their fields

Wednesday, 8 March 2023

Senator Malcolm Byrne, presented Jane Ohlmeyer MRIA with the 2023 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities and Jonathan N. Coleman MRIA with the 2023 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Physical and...

Gold Medals

Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell Hon MRIA awarded the 2023 Cunningham Medal

Tuesday, 7 March 2023

Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell Hon MRIA , was awarded the Royal Irish Academy’s Cunningham Medal at a ceremony in Dublin on Tuesday, 28 February 2023.

Cunningham Medal, Grants and Awards

‘From vice to virtue, from idleness to industry, from profaneness to practical religion’ - Grangegorman penitentiary

Monday, 6 March 2023

Joan Kavanagh, author and historian, has documented the experiences of women and girls transported from Ireland to the Australian colonies during the 19th Century. Here, Joan discovers the history of the Clock Tower...

Grangegorman Histories

R.J. Hunter Research Bursary scheme open

Thursday, 2 March 2023

Thanks to the generous support of Laura Houghton Hunter the RIA is pleased to open the R.J. Hunter Research Bursary scheme once again this year.

Grants and Awards

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