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IHTA Town and Country seminar series draws to a close
Tuesday, 1 June 2021Town and Country: perspectives from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas had record numbers in attendance
Dictionary of Irish Biography now open access
Wednesday, 17 March 2021First launched in 2009, the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) has moved to an ‘open access’ model making its entire corpus of nearly 11,000 biographical entries freely available to all users for the first time at www....
Educational resources designed for the Irish and Northern Irish curricula to support our forthcoming book 'Ireland 1922: Independence, Partition, Civil War'
Tuesday, 27 October 2020Covering key themes in the history of the Irish revolution, these resources will provide supplemental material for teachers preparing for Leaving Certificate and A Level exams.
Bringing medieval Irish into the classroom with 'A history of Ireland in 100 words'
Thursday, 22 October 2020After the book and the exhibition, we're now working on educational resources based around extracts from tales, poetry and historical texts composed in the Middle Ages.
Teaching resources on Medieval Ireland
Tuesday, 20 October 2020RIA author Máire Ní Mhaonaigh on how to inspire pupils with stories of women in Medieval Ireland, of the Otherworld and Viking names.
Irish Historic Towns Atlas in third-level education: digital mapping
Monday, 12 October 2020In the Royal Irish Academy's educational resources series, Rachel Murphy (University of Limerick) discusses how GIS and the IHTA can be used in third-level history.
Irish Historic Towns Atlas in third-level education: printed and pdfs
Tuesday, 6 October 2020In the Royal Irish Academy's educational resources series, Ruth McManus (Dublin City University) discusses how the printed Irish Historic Towns Atlas and IHTA Online can be used in third-level...
Curriculum-linked primary and post-primary lesson plans based on A history of Ireland in 100 objects
Tuesday, 6 October 2020These teaching resources have been designed to be both stimulating to students and integral to the relevant school curriculum.
DIFP second-level teaching resource on Ireland and World War Two
Tuesday, 29 September 2020This teaching resource for second-level history, based on the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series, uses original documents to explore Ireland's experience of the Second World War; the 'Emergency'.
DIB launches Leaving Cert history resource
Monday, 21 September 2020The Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) has created a new resource for Leaving Cert history students comprised of forty biographies of major Irish figures from Daniel O'Connell to Seamus Heaney.