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Watch: 'Why are there so few women political leaders?'
Friday, 31 March 2023The livestream recording of our recent Discourse Series is available to watch now.

Watchback: Presidential Discourse
Wednesday, 1 March 2023Watch the livestream of the Presidential Discourse: 'The Critical University' with Dr Mary Canning PRIA in conversation with Professor Brian MacCraith

'Understanding human oxygen sensing: adventures of a physician in science'
Wednesday, 30 November 2022The recent Academy Discourse by Nobel laureate Sir Peter Ratcliffe is available to watch back until Wednesday, 6 December 2022.

'Academic Freedom - Threats Within and Without'
Monday, 10 October 2022If you missed last week's Academy Discourse which explored Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom in 2022, you can watch it back now.

100 years on: Ireland; Finland; New Zealand; Poland - A comparative history
Tuesday, 13 September 2022If you missed last week's Academy Discourse, which took the form of a comparative panel discussion, you can watch it back now.

Academy Discourse: Decoding the past to conserve our future
Friday, 22 July 2022If you missed last week's Discourse with Dr Larisa DeSantis, which took place at University College Cork, you can watch it back now.

Academy Discourse: The future of higher education
Tuesday, 3 May 2022If you missed last week's Discourse with Professor Sir Adrian Smith, President of The Royal Society talking with Orla Feely MRIA on the future of higher education you can watch it back now.

Academy Discourse: The Changing World of Money and Finance
Thursday, 7 April 2022If you missed our Academy Discourse conversation with Frances Ruane MRIA and Patrick Honohan MRIA you can watch it back now.

Discourse Series speakers announced
Wednesday, 22 September 2021The Royal Irish Academy is delighted to announce the speakers for their 2021/22 Discourse Series which will be sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran LLP.

Watch Academy Discourse 'Celebrity culture up to and in the pandemic'
Thursday, 6 May 2021Diane Negra, MRIA explores the primacy, ubiquity and ambivalence of celebrity in the pandemic at a time when we are deprived of various modes of communal sociality and connectedness.