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Royal Irish Academy Public Discourse Series 2018/19 sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran
Wednesday, 19 September 2018Between September 2018 and April 2019, this Series will include expert speakers on a wide range of subjects including cybersecurity, the experience of female politicians at the highest ranks of Irish parliamentary...
An Irish envoy to revolutionary Russia, 1921
Thursday, 13 September 2018Who was Patrick McCartan, and why did Dáil Éireann send him to Russia during the War of Independence?
Call for nominations: All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values 2019
Thursday, 13 September 2018ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities
Serve on the Standing Committee for International Affairs
Thursday, 13 September 2018The Royal Irish Academy is issuing an open call seeking expressions of interest to serve on the Standing Committee for International Affairs (SCIA), for its new four year term commencing January 2019.
Call for nominations of participants to sit on the “Respect and Dialogue” Steering Committee
Wednesday, 29 August 2018Nominations welcome from science, policy, religion, industry, civil society, art.
An Irish diplomat in London during the Blitz, 1941
Tuesday, 28 August 2018In a sequel of sorts to our last blog post on the 'Emergency', what did an Irish diplomat see and hear while in London during the Blitz of 1941?
Digital Atlas of Fethard launched
Monday, 27 August 2018As part of Heritage Week, the Digital Atlas of Fethard was launched after a conference and walking tour
€10,000 Non-fiction book prize launched today
Wednesday, 22 August 2018The inaugural Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction will be awarded by the Royal Irish Academy in December 2018 for the best non-fiction book by a writer domiciled in Ireland.
'The Doegen Records: putting faces to voices from the past'
Tuesday, 21 August 2018The latest Library blog post commemorates the 90th anniversary of the recording of Irish speakers by Dr Wilhelm Doegen of Berlin and celebrates new images of the speakers thanks to the National Folklore Collection, UCD
To mark the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the world renowned Eastern Tomb at Knowth, we are publishing free online our six books on Excavations at Knowth via the Digital Repository of Ireland.