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Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: The Plough and the Stars
Saturday, 24 January 2015The Plough and the Stars by Seán O’Casey, 1926
Art and Architecture of Ireland reviewed in the Irish Times
Saturday, 17 January 2015The Royal Irish Academy’s Art and Architecture of Ireland project took 6 years to complete, contains over 2 million words, 3,000 pages and 1,600 years of culture.
The Making of the Art and Architecture of Ireland
Friday, 16 January 2015How do you put together a five volume work, with ten editors and over 270 external contributors? A project that contains over 3 million words, 3,000 pages and 3,500 images?
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: Harry Clarke's Eve of St Agnes
Saturday, 10 January 2015Harry Clarke’s Eve of St Agnes 1924
Seamus Heaney on the DIB
Saturday, 10 January 2015Address by Seamus Heaney at the launch in Belfast on 16 December 2009 of the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography (9 vols and online, Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Philosophy to be taught for the Junior Cert
Tuesday, 6 January 2015WHAT’S THE MEANING of life? Is our universe real? Do we have free will? These are just some of the questions that Irish teenagers could be contemplating in 2017, when a philosophy course is set to be introduced into the...
Work begins on DIFP X
Thursday, 25 December 2014In preparation for work on DIFP X, which will run from 1951 to 1957, Kate and Michael reviewed Cabinet minutes for the period and began to set the forthcoming research year for the volume in motion.
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks (1920) The Lobster Fisherman by Paul Henry
Saturday, 6 December 2014In this week’s article Yvonne Scott discusses Paul Henry’s calm portrait which ‘captures the challenge Irish artists faced in combining modernism and nationalism.’
DIFP IX is launched by Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade
Tuesday, 25 November 2014On 5 November we received the first copies of DIFP IX and through the month we set in place and rolled out a major publicity campaign on the new volume.