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The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann champions research. We identify and recognise Ireland’s world class researchers. We support scholarship and promote awareness of how science and the humanities enrich our lives and benefit society. We believe that good research needs to be promoted, sustained and communicated. The Academy is run by a Council of its members. Membership is by election and considered the highest Academic honour in Ireland.
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Academy Gold Medals: call for nominations
Tuesday, 14 May 2019In 2019 the Academy will award two Gold Medals: one in the Social Sciences and one in the Engineering Sciences.
Interviews with 2018 Gold Medallists
Thursday, 21 February 2019Watch the 2018 Academy Gold Medals winners, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, MRIA and Stephen J. Smartt, MRIA sharing their views on what it means to receive their awards
Gold Medals for the stars of research
Tuesday, 12 February 2019Academy Gold Medals awarded in the Humanities and the Physical and Mathematical Sciences to architectural historian, Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty and Astrophysicist, Professor Stephen J. Smartt MRIA.
Academy Gold Medals: Call for nominations
Friday, 20 April 2018In 2018 the Academy will award two Gold Medals: one in the Humanities and one in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
Gold Medal Award Ceremony
Monday, 26 March 2018Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor, T.D. presented the 2017 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medals at a ceremony in Academy House on 23 March.
The DIB & the Cunningham Medal
Tuesday, 7 March 2017Read the DIB entry on William Mossop, and his son William, both engravers and designers of medals, by Daniel Beaumont and David Murphy, below.
Academy Gold Medals
Tuesday, 31 January 2017Professor Louis Cullen and Professor Fergus Shanahan were awarded the 2016 Academy Gold Medals.
Royal Irish Academy Gold Medals 2016
Monday, 23 May 2016In 2016 the Royal Irish Academy will award two Gold Medals: one in the Humanities and one in the Life Sciences.
Academy Gold Medallists 2015 share their views on open science and data sharing
Thursday, 24 March 2016In 2015, medals were awarded in the Engineering Sciences and the Social Sciences.
Academy Gold Medals 2015
Thursday, 25 February 2016Professor Philip Lane and Professor Alan Smeaton were awarded the Academy Gold Medals.