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Documenting a conquest: The RIA copies of the ‘Books of Survey and Distribution’

Friday, 7 February 2020

For this month’s Library blog post, Dr John Gibney, Assistant Editor with the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series, looks at an important seventeenth-century document from our collections.

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New DIFP series editors required: call for expressions of interest

Wednesday, 5 February 2020

We are inviting expressions of interest from academics to volunteer as editors of the DIFP series from 2021 onwards

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New DIFP exhibition in National Archives of Ireland: Ireland joins the UN, December 1955

Thursday, 12 December 2019

Our December exhibition co-curated with the National Archives of Ireland looks at Ireland's accession to the United Nations in December 1955

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RIA author John Gibney on RTÉ Radio 1

Tuesday, 10 December 2019

Sean O'Rourke interviews Dr John Gibney on our latest book Ireland: a voice among the nations

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Launch of 'Ireland: A voice among the nations'

Monday, 2 December 2019

On Wednesday 27 November the RIA's new illustrated history of Irish foreign affairs was launched by Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Coveney TD.

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New DIFP exhibition in National Archives of Ireland on the 1986 Chernobyl disaster

Friday, 15 November 2019

Our November exhibition co-curated with the National Archives of Ireland looks at Irish responses to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster

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One hundred years of Irish foreign policy

Tuesday, 15 October 2019

Read an extract from our new centenary history of Irish foreign policy, Ireland: a voice among the nations.

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New DIFP exhibition in National Archives of Ireland: Ireland and Japan, 1968

Wednesday, 2 October 2019

Our October exhibtion co-curated with the National Archives of Ireland looks at Irish-Japanese relations and Taoiseach Jack Lynch's visit to Japan in 1968.

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New DIFP exhibition in National Archives of Ireland on Ireland and the outbreak of the Second World War

Wednesday, 4 September 2019

To mark the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, our latest exhibition co-curated with the National Archives of Ireland explores how Ireland saw the start of the conflict.

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Lunchtime lecture series marking 100 years of Irish foreign policy

Thursday, 29 August 2019

Join the authors of our forthcoming book Ireland: a voice among the nations and explore how Ireland has engaged with the wider world over the past century.

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