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Major achievement for EASAC

Wednesday, 12 December 2018

The European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) has been awarded "Think Tank of the Year".

Policy and International Relations, International Activities

Irish Research Council’s Researcher of the Year awards 2018

Monday, 10 December 2018

The Royal Irish Academy would like to congratulate Professor Anna Davies MRIA of Trinity College Dublin on being named as the main Researcher of the Year. 

Policy and International Relations

Royal Irish Academy Culture and Heritage Working Group Publish Series of Papers

Thursday, 6 December 2018

RIA Response to the Creative Ireland Programme

Policy and International Relations

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 118C now available in print and online

Wednesday, 5 December 2018

This latest volume contains eleven important contributions that showcase the journal’s ambitious disciplinary and chronological range.

Publications

Suffrage poem out now!

Wednesday, 5 December 2018

Released on 5 December and available for shipping worldwide

Publications, Decade of Centenaries

Ériu: back catalogue now available from our webshop

Wednesday, 5 December 2018

You can now purchase print copies of all 67 volumes in just one click

Publications

Call for experts: ''Plastics and the Circular Economy“

Wednesday, 5 December 2018

EASAC is looking for experts to join working group.

Policy and International Relations, International Activities

Meet the women behind the suffrage poem

Wednesday, 5 December 2018

Introducing author Eavan Boland and illustrator Paula McGloin

Publications, Decade of Centenaries

Suffrage poem reading at the United Nations

Tuesday, 4 December 2018

Watch author Eavan Boland, Hon. MRIA, read her commemorative poem on UN television

Publications, Public Engagement

Winner of €10,000 Michel Déon Prize announced

Tuesday, 4 December 2018

The winner of the inaugural Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction is Breandán Mac Suibhne for his book The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland

Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication Committee, Grants and Awards, Public Engagement

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