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Hamilton Day 2014
Thursday, 16 October 2014Commemorating the anniversary of William Rowan Hamilton’s historical discovery of the formula for quaternion algerbra, the Academy put together a programme of events on Thursday, 16 October 2014.
DIFP IX almost ready to go to print
Thursday, 25 September 2014We completed the prelims to DIFP IX, checked the index and gave the text of the volume a final once over. By the end of September DIFP IX was almost ready for print.
Future Earth Townhall
Wednesday, 17 September 2014On the 17 September 2014 the Royal Irish Academy hoste the first national Future Earth townhall.
The text of DIFP IX is complete
Monday, 25 August 2014We finally got the introduction and the prelims and endmatter of DIFP IX completed and off for copyediting in the first weeks of August. It was a very time-consuming period as there were a complicated series of...
Writing the introduction to DIFP IX
Friday, 25 July 2014With the body text of DIFP IX finalised our attention turned to writing the introduction to DIFP IX.
An Introduction to Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks
Friday, 27 June 2014This weekend marks the start of the Royal Irish Academy’s collaboration with the Irish Times entitled Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks.
Summer 2014 outreach under way
Wednesday, 25 June 2014In early June Kate and Michael finished the mammoth task of checking the text of DIFP IX by reading out loud the typescript of our new volume against the original documents. This is in-depth and rigorous work - we have...
DIFP IX to cover overseas adoption of Irish children
Sunday, 25 May 2014The typing of DIFP IX is almost complete, as it the checking of the text. As the month draws to a close we are working in the Spring of 1951 and have just 50 documents left to go. One of the emerging themes of the last...
DIFP enters the 1950s
Friday, 25 April 2014DIFP was busy all through April with DIFP IX. With the typescript coming in we were checking the text by reading the typescript out loud and following it against images of the original documents. By the end of the month...
Labour camps, Nazi war criminals and nuclear weapons – a busy month for DIFP
Friday, 14 March 2014It was another very busy month for the project as we continued to edit DIFP IX. By the end of the month we had 250 documents in place and had finished 1948 – one of the most complicated years in the history of Ireland’s...