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Heritage Podcast: In time of inquisition: preserving and using the archives of the Irish Catholic Church
Tuesday, 16 October 2018John McCafferty, UCD discusses the importance of the archives of Catholic religious congregations and dioceses for writing the history of Ireland.
Heritage Podcast: National Libraries as memory keepers
Thursday, 11 October 2018Dr. Sandra Collins, Director of the National Library of Ireland, discusses how national libraries are memory keepers for their countries, collecting and keeping safe memories that share the culture, heritage and story...
10 years on, was austerity worth it? Debating Austerity, the RIA’s volume on the crisis and recovery, is now free to download
Wednesday, 26 September 2018Free from the RIA to mark ten years since the bank guarantee: our definitive volume on the crisis and recovery
Serve on the Standing Committee for International Affairs
Thursday, 13 September 2018The Royal Irish Academy is issuing an open call seeking expressions of interest to serve on the Standing Committee for International Affairs (SCIA), for its new four year term commencing January 2019.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the world renowned Eastern Tomb at Knowth, we are publishing free online our six books on Excavations at Knowth via the Digital Repository of Ireland.
Report from Twenty Years after the Belfast Agreement 1998: A Young Person’s Guide to the Future
Thursday, 28 June 2018A succinct report from the conversation about the main issues facing young people in Ireland twenty years after the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.
Survival and the citizen: Micro-dialogues on key challenges
Thursday, 10 May 2018Read the first in a series of 'microdialogues' - online conversations between two experts on key challenges for modern society. The first addresses end-of-life care and the right to die.
Redmond and Carson: bloodshed, borders and beyond
Friday, 27 April 2018Watch the Academy Discourse given by Professor Alvin Jackson, Hon. MRIA marking the anniversary of the death of John Redmond.
Call for applications for Archaeology Grants
Monday, 5 March 2018Apply for Archaeology Research Grants and Archaeology C14 Radiocarbon Dates Scheme.
Multilateralism and Interdependence: Prospects and Challenges
Tuesday, 6 February 2018Call for papers for the 2018 International Affairs conference - deadline extended to 16 March 2018.