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2014 Royal Irish Academy-Royal Society Cost Share Award Winners
Saturday, 1 March 2014Dr David O’Regan, Trinity College Dublin, and Dr Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, have both been selected to receive a prestigious Royal Irish Academy-Royal Society International Exchange Cost-Share award in 2014.
DIFP IX takes shape
Friday, 14 February 2014DIFP IX really began to take shape through February as the typescript of the first hundred or so documents in the volume came in. Kate and Michael checked these against the originals and the editing process kicked-in in...
What exactly is the relationship between the church and state?
Monday, 27 January 20142014 Gold medal winner and member of the Royal Irish Academy, Professor Desmond Clarke, discusses this tricky question with the Irish Times education correspondent Joe Humphreys.
Documents selected for DIFP IX
Tuesday, 14 January 2014The major event for the project this month was the selection of 835 documents that have become the core of DIFP IX. Over the coming months these documents will be typed up and Kate and Michael will check, edit and...
Launch of Corpas na Gaeilge 1882-1926
Wednesday, 11 December 2013Minister of State at the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dinny Mc Ginley, T.D., launched Foclóir na Nua-Ghaeilge’s Corpas na Gaeilge 1882-1926 in Academy House, 19 Dawson Street on Wednesday 11th...
Dr. Sandra Collins: Open Access for Data
Saturday, 23 November 2013Dr. Sandra Collins is the Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). She was appointed to this role in the Royal Irish Academy in 2011. She is also a Funded Investigator in the SFI-funded INSIGHT: Ireland's...
Ruth Hegarty: Open Access for Monographs
Tuesday, 19 November 2013Ruth Hegarty is Managing Editor of the Royal Irish Academy’s publishing house. She holds degrees in English from Trinity and UCD. She established the Prism imprint of the RIA which aims to produce beautiful books...
Dermot Moran: The Open-Access Pandora's Box
Tuesday, 19 November 2013Dermot Moran holds the Professorship of Philosophy (Metaphysics and Logic) at University College Dublin since 1989. Professor Moran was awarded the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities in 2012. He is...
Stefan Decker: Open Access Requires a Change in Habit
Monday, 18 November 2013Stefan Decker MRIA is a professor at the National University of Ireland and the director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) in Galway. His current research interests include the Semantic Web, metadata,...
Eoin O Reilly: Future Challenges for Open Access Publishing
Sunday, 17 November 2013Eoin O’Reilly MRIA is a Professor of Physics in University College Cork. In his list of over 250 publications includes seven book chapters, several major review papers, articles for Physics World, and papers on...