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DRI Welcomes Marsh's Library as Member
Wednesday, 22 March 2023The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is delighted to announce that Marsh's Library has joined as our latest member.

Pat Guiry elected as President
Thursday, 16 March 2023Today at their Stated General Meeting, the Members of the Royal Irish Academy voted Professor Pat Guiry as their 58th President.

Annual Review 2022
Thursday, 16 March 2023The 2022 Annual Review of the Royal Irish Academy is available now to view online and download.

Savita Halappanavar Memorial Collection published on the Digital Repository of Ireland
Tuesday, 14 March 2023Dublin 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...

Watch the Hamilton Lecture 2022
Friday, 10 March 2023If 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...

A vibrant civic society in Ireland today: The role of the Church
Friday, 10 March 2023If 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.

Gold Medals for top Irish researchers shaping their fields
Wednesday, 8 March 2023Senator 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...

Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell Hon MRIA awarded the 2023 Cunningham Medal
Tuesday, 7 March 2023Dame 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.

‘From vice to virtue, from idleness to industry, from profaneness to practical religion’ - Grangegorman penitentiary
Monday, 6 March 2023Joan 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...

R.J. Hunter Research Bursary scheme open
Thursday, 2 March 2023Thanks 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.