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15 January 2019

The Irish dimension to British History: From the Act of Union to Brexit

This Academy Discourse by Sir David Cannadine, President, British Academy and Dodge Professor of History, Princeton University, is the tenth in the series sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran.

Membership, Humanities and Social Sciences Committees, Discourse Series
07 November 2018

Securing Connected Devices: An Arms Race

Watch this discouse by Professor Máire O'Neill, Queen's University Belfast, the eighth in the series sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran.

Membership, Science Committees, Engineering and Computer Sciences Committee, Discourse Series
25 September 2018

Recent insights into how the Earth works: embracing uncertainty

This Academy Discourse by Professor Chris Bean, School of Cosmic Physics, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies is the seventh in the series sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran.

Discourse Series
18 June 2018

‘Antibiotics and the cell’s protein factory’

Nobel Laureate, Sir Venkatraman 'Venki' Ramakrishnan presents an Academy Discourse - the sixth in the series sponsored by Mason, Hayes & Curran.

Membership, Discourse Series, Public Lecture
06 March 2018

Redmond and Carson: bloodshed, borders and beyond

This Academy Discourse by Professor Alvin Jackson, Hon. MRIA marking the anniversary of the death of John Redmond is the fourth in the series sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran.

Discourse Series, Public Lecture
29 November 2017

'Finding medication: River Blindness, ivermectin and beyond.'

This Academy Discourse by Professor William C. Campbell, Hon. MRIA is the third in the series sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran.

Discourse Series
13 November 2017

‘Causes and consequences of obesity; lessons from human genetics’

This Academy Discourse by Professor Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, Hon. MRIA is the second in the Series sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran.

Discourse Series
08 June 2017

'The circulation of verse in Jonathan Swift's Dublin'

Academy Discourse by James Woolley, Smith Professor of English Emeritus at Lafayette College.

Membership, Discourse Series
30 March 2017

A unified biology during the 21st century and its impact on our lives and our environment

Academy Discourse by Professor Nils Christian Stenseth from the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis at the University of Oslo.

Life and Health Sciences Committee, Discourse Series
11 January 2016

Academy Discourse with Roy Foster: 'Knowing their dream? Yeats’ response to Easter 1916'

Roy Foster will deliver a lecture on W. B. Yeats and Easter 1916 as a joint commemoration marking the ending of 2015 - the year of Yeats’s 150th anniversary, and the commencement of 2016 - the year of 1916...

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