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Dr Xinxin Xiao wins Kathleen Lonsdale Prize 2018

Monday, 28 January 2019

Dr. Xinxin Xiao, a PhD graduate of University Limerick, has been selected as this year’s winner of the Royal Irish Academy’s Kathleen Lonsdale Chemistry Prize, sponsored by Henkel. 

Physical, Chemical and Mathematical Sciences Committee, Grants and Awards

New Publications from the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities

Monday, 28 January 2019

Three new publications based on the outstanding work of the ALLEA Working Group “Truth, Trust and Expertise”.

Policy and International Relations

'Women in government: four Tanaisti in conversation'

Friday, 25 January 2019

View our discourse marking the centenary of the 1918 parliamentary elections online now.

Public Engagement, Discourse Series

DIFP and the centenary of the first Dáil

Tuesday, 22 January 2019

A round-up of a few things we have produced of relevance to the centenary of the first Dáil Éireann.

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Michael MacWhite and the Sinn Féin delegation in Paris, 1919-21

Tuesday, 22 January 2019

In 1919 the first Dáil sent a delegation to Paris to lobby the post-WW1 peace conference to recognize Irish independence, and in later life one of its members set down his recollections.

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Academy of Sciences of Turin Prizes

Wednesday, 16 January 2019

Two prizes are being awarded in 2019:  The “Angiola Gili and Cataldo Agostinelli International Prize” and The “Ferrari Soave International Prize”.

Policy and International Relations, International Activities

Thirty-nine new lives added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography

Tuesday, 15 January 2019

Thirty-nine lives were added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography online in December 2018, our eighteenth online update.

Dictionary of Irish Biography

New exhibition series in the National Archives of Ireland on 100 years of the Irish Foreign Service, 1919-2019

Thursday, 10 January 2019

In conjunction with our colleagues in the National Archives of Ireland we are curating a series of monthly exhibitions on the history of Irish foreign policy in the NAI throughout 2019.

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova: the woman who broke through the ‘august sanctuary’ of the male-dominated Russian Academy

Thursday, 10 January 2019

Dr Angela Byrne writes about Princess Dashkova for the fourth Blog post in our series on the five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century'.

Library, Library Blog

Call for nominations for the 2020 Louis-Jeantet Prizes

Tuesday, 8 January 2019

The Scientific Committee of the Louis-Jeantet Foundation is actively searching for nominations for the 2020 Louis-Jeantet Prizes.

Policy and International Relations

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