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Saturday, 17 December 2016

A Christmas rhyme from us to you. 

Library, Library Blog

Podcast: The Invention of Journalism

Friday, 16 December 2016

"Long before journalism had a name, Europe had a fully operative commercial news market, and newsmen had their own strongly felt code of ethics."

Library

Launch of "Frongoch and 1916: Recreating a Lost Landscape"

Friday, 9 December 2016

DRI launches new digital exhibitions on Frongoch & 1916

Digital Repository of Ireland

'The future is about talent not tax'

Thursday, 8 December 2016

Read the Academy's opening statement to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills on the future funding of the higher education sector.

Policy and International Relations

Open Call

Thursday, 8 December 2016

Open Call seeking Expressions of Interest to serve on the Royal Irish Academy's Social Sciences Committee. This Open Call closed at 23:00 on 16 January 2017.

Humanities and Social Sciences Committees, Social Sciences Committee

DIB Women on Walls: Sheila Tinney

Tuesday, 6 December 2016

‘Women on Walls' is a campaign by Accenture in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy that seeks to make women leaders visible through a series of commissioned portraits that will create a lasting cultural legacy for...

Dictionary of Irish Biography

DIB Women on Walls: Françoise Henry

Tuesday, 6 December 2016

‘Women on Walls' is a campaign by Accenture in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy that seeks to make women leaders visible through a series of commissioned portraits that will create a lasting cultural legacy for...

Dictionary of Irish Biography

DIB Women on Walls: Eleanor Knott

Tuesday, 6 December 2016

‘Women on Walls' is a campaign by Accenture in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy that seeks to make women leaders visible through a series of commissioned portraits that will create a lasting cultural legacy for...

Dictionary of Irish Biography

DIB Women on Walls: Phyllis Clinch

Tuesday, 6 December 2016

'Women on Walls' is a campaign by Accenture in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy that seeks to make women leaders visible through a series of commissioned portraits that will create a lasting cultural legacy for...

Dictionary of Irish Biography

Remembering Hugh O’Neill 1616-2016

Monday, 5 December 2016

It was a full house for our library seminar commemorating the 'Great O'Neill'

Library

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