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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...
Cunningham Medal 2013-2014
Monday, 10 March 2014Professor Patrick Honohan, MRIA, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, was awarded the Royal Irish Academy’s Cunningham Medal at a ceremony in Dublin on Monday, 10 March 2014.
2014 Royal Irish Academy-Royal Society Cost Share Award Winners
Saturday, 1 March 2014Dr David O’Regan, Trinity College Dublin, and Dr Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, have both been selected to receive a prestigious Royal Irish Academy-Royal Society International Exchange Cost-Share award in 2014.
DIFP IX takes shape
Friday, 14 February 2014DIFP IX really began to take shape through February as the typescript of the first hundred or so documents in the volume came in. Kate and Michael checked these against the originals and the editing process kicked-in in...
What exactly is the relationship between the church and state?
Monday, 27 January 20142014 Gold medal winner and member of the Royal Irish Academy, Professor Desmond Clarke, discusses this tricky question with the Irish Times education correspondent Joe Humphreys.