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Dr Xinxin Xiao wins Kathleen Lonsdale Prize 2018
Monday, 28 January 2019Dr. 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.
New Publications from the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities
Monday, 28 January 2019Three new publications based on the outstanding work of the ALLEA Working Group “Truth, Trust and Expertise”.
'Women in government: four Tanaisti in conversation'
Friday, 25 January 2019View our discourse marking the centenary of the 1918 parliamentary elections online now.
DIFP and the centenary of the first Dáil
Tuesday, 22 January 2019A round-up of a few things we have produced of relevance to the centenary of the first Dáil Éireann.
Michael MacWhite and the Sinn Féin delegation in Paris, 1919-21
Tuesday, 22 January 2019In 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.
Academy of Sciences of Turin Prizes
Wednesday, 16 January 2019Two prizes are being awarded in 2019: The “Angiola Gili and Cataldo Agostinelli International Prize” and The “Ferrari Soave International Prize”.
Thirty-nine new lives added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography
Tuesday, 15 January 2019Thirty-nine lives were added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography online in December 2018, our eighteenth online update.
New exhibition series in the National Archives of Ireland on 100 years of the Irish Foreign Service, 1919-2019
Thursday, 10 January 2019In 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.
Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova: the woman who broke through the ‘august sanctuary’ of the male-dominated Russian Academy
Thursday, 10 January 2019Dr 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'.
Call for nominations for the 2020 Louis-Jeantet Prizes
Tuesday, 8 January 2019The Scientific Committee of the Louis-Jeantet Foundation is actively searching for nominations for the 2020 Louis-Jeantet Prizes.