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Nobel Laureate, Sir Venki Ramakrishnan on the ribosome, proteins and antibiotic resistance

Sunday, 1 July 2018

Nobel Laureate, Sir Venkatraman 'Venki' Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society on 18 June in Academy House presents an Academy Discourse titled ‘Antibiotics and the cell’s protein factory’ - the sixth in the...

Public Engagement, Discourse Series

Member Profile: Grace Mulcahy

Friday, 29 June 2018

Gracy Mulcahy, leading researcher in veterinary parasitology, was admitted to the Royal Irish Academy on 25 May 2018.

Membership

Report from Twenty Years after the Belfast Agreement 1998: A Young Person’s Guide to the Future

Thursday, 28 June 2018

A succinct report from the conversation about the main issues facing young people in Ireland twenty years after the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.

Humanities and Social Sciences Committees, Ethics, Politics, Law and Philosophy Committee

The tercentenary of the 1718 migration from Ulster – the Craighead family

Thursday, 28 June 2018

The 1718 emigration is one of the earliest known planned group migrations from Ireland. Migrants from the Bann valley founded towns in New England.

Dictionary of Irish Biography

Member Profile: Gerardine Meaney

Thursday, 28 June 2018

Gerardine Meaney, known for her highly cited publications, was admitted to the Royal Irish Academy on 25 May 2018

Membership

Member Profile: Christopher McCrudden

Wednesday, 27 June 2018

Christopher McCrudden, a human rights lawyer academic who has been cited in the European Court of Justice, the House of Lords and the US Supreme Court, was admitted to the Royal Irish Academy on 25 May 2018.

Membership

Member Profile: Martin Mansergh

Tuesday, 26 June 2018

Martin Mansergh who played a key role in the Northern Ireland peace process was admitted to the Royal Irish Academy on 25 May 2018

Membership

Caroline Herschel – ‘Comet-searcher’

Monday, 25 June 2018

First in our Blog post series on five Honorary Members featured in our exhibition 'Prodigies of learning: Academy women in the nineteenth century.' This month we look at Caroline Herschel.

Library, Library Blog

SAPEA Call for nominations "Making Sense of Science"

Monday, 25 June 2018

SAPEA call for nominations on the topic "Making Sense of Science" to provide scientific advice witin the European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism.

Policy and International Relations, International Activities

Member Profile: Patrick Lonergan

Monday, 25 June 2018

Patrick Lonergan one of Ireland's foremost theatre scholars and an academic leader of the Digitisation of the Abbey and Gate Theatre archive was admitted to the Royal Irish Academy on 25 May 2018.

Membership

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